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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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During Philadelphia's recent epidemic, a Water Street family of four perished from the disease; fearful neighbors delayed aid until finding the parents and one child dead, with the infant nursing from its deceased mother before dying the next day.
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A family living in the second loft of a house in Water-Street, caught the disorder--there were a father, mother, and two small children. The family living under them; in the same house, knew that their neighbour was in distress but, for fear of the contagion's communicating to their apartment, did not visit them. The fourth day after they were supposed to have received the disorder, the lower family frequently heard the cry of a child-on which the master of it was induced to venture into the apartment--where he beheld the father, mother, and one child-A corpse :-On the bed beside the mother, lay the wretched infant, endeavouring to draw sustenance from the putrid breast of its dead parent ! it died also the next day.
[Phila. paper.]
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Philadelphia
Event Date
During The Ravages Of The Late Pestilential Disorder
Outcome
father, mother, and one child dead; infant died the next day
Event Details
A family living in the second loft of a house in Water-Street caught the disorder. The family below knew of their distress but did not visit for fear of contagion. On the fourth day, the lower family's master ventured up and found the father, mother, and one child as corpses. The infant lay beside the mother, endeavouring to draw sustenance from her putrid breast, and died the next day.