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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Norfolk's Mayor and Aldermen declare the recent town's fever epidemic subsided, with normal mortality rates restored and no risk from resuming free movement; the outbreak was mostly confined to crowded, unclean areas on made land.
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THE Mayor and Aldermen, actuated by a just sense of the duty they owe their fellow citizens, have the satisfaction to announce to the public, upon the strictest enquiry of the physicians, they are enabled to declare, that the malignant symptoms attending the fever which lately afflicted the town, have subsided--that whatever numbers of sick may remain, the mortality has ceased, so that no more deaths take place than is usual at this season of the year--that no necessity now exists for restraining the intercourse, and no danger can result from a free ingress and egress to and from the town. And on a subject so highly interesting to the community, they think it incumbent on them to add, that the late fever was in a great measure local, and confined mostly to that part of the town which is built on made land, the houses occupied by people of discordant habits and different countries, for the most part much crowded, and little regard paid to personal or household cleanliness--The natives and others (old inhabitants) residing in airy parts of the town, and observing a temperate diet, have enjoyed an unusual Share of health during the season. Norfolk Borough, Oct. 16, '97.
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Norfolk
Event Date
Oct. 16, '97
Outcome
mortality has ceased, so that no more deaths take place than is usual at this season of the year
Event Details
The Mayor and Aldermen announce, upon enquiry of the physicians, that the malignant symptoms attending the fever which lately afflicted the town have subsided; whatever numbers of sick may remain, no danger results from free ingress and egress to and from the town; the late fever was in a great measure local, confined mostly to that part of the town built on made land, with houses occupied by people of discordant habits and different countries, much crowded, and little regard paid to cleanliness; natives and old inhabitants in airy parts, observing temperate diet, enjoyed unusual health.