A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States : to which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles, and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793 / by Mathew Carey.

  • Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
Date:
1794
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Credit: A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States : to which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles, and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793 / by Mathew Carey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    fubjeft of the fever, at which it was agreed to be indifpehfably neceffary, that a fuitable houfe, as an hofpital, fhould be provide^ near the city, for the reception of the infeTed pooh In confequence, in the evening of the fame day, the guardians of the poor agreed to fundry refolutions, viz. to ufe their utmoft exertions to procure a houfe, of the above defcription, for an hofpital, (out of town, and as near thereto as might be practicable, confiftent. with the fafety of the inhabitants,) for the poor who were br might be afflifled with contagious diforders5 ^nd be deffffute of the means of providing neceffary afliffance otherwise ; to engage phyficians, nurfes, at- tendants, and all neccffaries for their relief in that houfe ; to appoint proper perfons in each diftrict, to enquire after fuch poor as might be afflicted; to ad-, minifter affiftance to them in their own houfes, and, if neceffary, to remove them. to the hofpital. They referved to themfelves, at the fame time, the liberty of drawing on the mayor for fuch Tams as might be neceffary. to carry their plaps into effqff. Conformably with thefe refolves, a committee of the guardians was appointed, to make enquiry for a •fuitable place ; and bn due examination, they judged that a building adjacent to Buflihill, the manfion- houfe of William Hamilton, efq. was the beff calcu- lated for the purpofe. That gentleman was then ab- fent, and had no agent in the city ; and the great \irgency of the cafe admitting no delay, eight o( the guardians, accompanied by Hilary Baker, efq*. one of the city aldermen, with the concurrence of the governor, proceeded, on the 3 iff of Auguff, fo tbs, building they had fixed upon; and meeting with fome oppofition frorxl a tenant who occupied it, they took poffeffion of the manfion-houfe itfelT, to which, on the fame evening, they fent the four patients who remained at the circus. ‘ Shortly after this, the guardians of the poor for the city, except James Wilfon, Jacob Tomkins, jun. and William Sanfom, ceafed the performance Of their duties, nearly the whole of them having