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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Yellow fever increases daily in Philadelphia, with 20-30 deaths per day from the 18th to 25th and nearly 100 new cases in the last 24 hours per August 23 reports. Due to rising cases and residents fleeing, impeding tax collection, councils authorize mayor to borrow $10,000 for city watering.
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From the reports of the physicians, (says the Universal Gazette of August 23d) though very imperfect, it is probable that there are near ONE HUNDRED new cases that occurred during the last twenty-four hours.
On account of the increase of the Fever, and a number of inhabitants having removed from the city, and consequently the impracticability of collecting taxes, the select and common councils of Philadelphia, have authorized the mayor to borrow 10,000 dollars, to be applied to the purposes of watering the city.
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Philadelphia
Event Date
From The 18th To The 25th, August 23d
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number of deaths from the 18th to the 25th, were from twenty to thirty, per day; near one hundred new cases that occurred during the last twenty-four hours; authorized the mayor to borrow 10,000 dollars
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The yellow fever increases daily, in Philadelphia. From the reports of the physicians, though very imperfect, it is probable that there are near ONE HUNDRED new cases that occurred during the last twenty-four hours. On account of the increase of the Fever, and a number of inhabitants having removed from the city, and consequently the impracticability of collecting taxes, the select and common councils of Philadelphia, have authorized the mayor to borrow 10,000 dollars, to be applied to the purposes of watering the city.