When was it published?

September 30, 1793 in The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

Domestic News September 30, 1793

The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

Q: What sub-type of article is it?

Disease Or Epidemic, Charity Or Relief, Economic

Q: What keywords are associated?

Yellow Fever, Philadelphia Epidemic, Rents Environs, Public Offices Shut, Market Scarcity, Relief Poor, Physicians Disagreement, Bush Hill Hospital

Martinsburg, Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Jefferson County, West Virginia

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What is this article about?

Report from Philadelphia on Sept. 20 amid yellow fever crisis: high rural rents, mass exodus thinning city population and closing offices, market shortages, praise for poor relief efforts, physician disputes over disease, and recoveries at Bush Hill Hospital with no staff infections.

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Sept. 20. Rents in the environs of the city now, in many instances, command as high a rent as the best houses in the town. A small tenement of four or five rooms, has let, within 3 miles of the city, at the rate of upwards of 100l. per ann.

Half of the citizens of Philadelphia have become inhabitants of the country; as for the Federal Government it is neither here nor there. Most public offices are shut.

The thinness in the population of the city will have a tendency to accelerate the return of salubrity. The scarcity of our markets is felt, owing to that circumstance.

The humanity of those men who have voluntarily stepped forth to relieve the poor in this time of general distress, can never be forgotten; their conduct is beyond the reach of encomium.

No circumstance has added more distress to the present calamity, than the disagreement of the physicians about the disease. They at first differed as to the mode of cure; but now it appears they do not agree in determining what is and what is not the yellow fever.

We are informed that neither of the sitting managers, physicians, nurses, or attendants, at the Hospital at Bush Hill, have taken the infection, or are any ways indisposed, and that there are near twenty patients recovered at that place.

What sub-type of article is it?

Disease Or Epidemic Charity Or Relief Economic

What keywords are associated?

Yellow Fever Philadelphia Epidemic Rents Environs Public Offices Shut Market Scarcity Relief Poor Physicians Disagreement Bush Hill Hospital

Where did it happen?

Philadelphia

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Philadelphia

Event Date

Sept. 20.

Outcome

near twenty patients recovered at the hospital at bush hill; neither of the sitting managers, physicians, nurses, or attendants at the hospital at bush hill have taken the infection or are any ways indisposed.

Event Details

Rents in the environs of the city command high prices; half of the citizens of Philadelphia have become inhabitants of the country; most public offices are shut; thinness in the population will accelerate return of salubrity; scarcity of markets felt; humanity of men relieving the poor praised; disagreement of physicians about the disease and its cure; information about Hospital at Bush Hill.