The New Hampshire Gazette

Some account of the Yellow Fever in Newbedford, in Massachusetts, from a Correspondent on the spot.

A vessel arrived in that port from Demerara, some of whose crew had been affected with a malignant fever while at Demerara, and one person died on her passage home. Within three or four days after her arrival, some of the persons who had been on board her, were taken ill of the fever. Two young men belonging to a neighboring town were of this number; and both died in three or four days. All who were seized lived near the port where the vessel lay, which was at the foot of a dirty lane, a place not well ventilated. Eight or nine persons died, but the disease was not communicated, in any instance, from the sick, by infection. The vessel contained a large quantity of damaged Coffee—injured, it was supposed, to the amount of 85 per cent. of its value owing to its being not well dried, and stowed, on green wood in a close hold. The fever lasted but a few days, and was limited to a small compass near the vessel. There is therefore good reason to believe the fever to have been engendered by the morbid effluvia from that vessel; but the town of New-Bedford, being small, and situated on a dry rocky acclivity, and containing a good air, the disease did not spread beyond the atmosphere which had been vitiated by the effluvia.