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Alexandria Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Philadelphia report on Sept. 26 of an unprecedented 20-year drought in westward areas along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, causing fatal outbreaks of bilious fevers, dysentery, and dumb ague, including a family of five deaths and 50 cases in Lewistown.
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By a gentleman just returned from the westward, we are informed that the present drought is greater and more extensive than any that has been experienced there for these twenty years. Along the borders of the Susquehanna river, the Juniata and their branches, bilious fevers are remarkably fatal. In one instance a family of five persons took sick, and died in a fortnight. In Lewistown, there had been as many as fifty persons confined at one time with the dumb ague, and along the courses of rivers to the eastward of Lewistown, many persons are attacked with equal fatality by the dysentery, bilious fevers, and the dumb ague.
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Borders Of The Susquehanna River, The Juniata And Their Branches
Event Date
Present, As Of Sept. 26
Outcome
a family of five died in a fortnight from bilious fevers; up to fifty persons confined with dumb ague in lewistown; many fatalities from dysentery, bilious fevers, and dumb ague eastward of lewistown.
Event Details
A severe drought, greater than any in twenty years, affects the westward regions. Bilious fevers are fatal along the Susquehanna, Juniata, and branches. In Lewistown, fifty persons suffered from dumb ague simultaneously. Eastward rivers see attacks of dysentery, bilious fevers, and dumb ague with high fatality.