An account of the yellow fever, which occurred in the city of New-York, in the year 1822 : To which is prefixed a brief sketch of the different pestilential diseases, with which this city was afflicted, in the years 1798, 1799, 1803 & 1805, with the opinion of several of our most eminent physicians, respecting the origin of the disease, its prevention and cure. To which is added a correct list of all the deaths by yellow fever during the late season, taken from official documents / by James Hardie.

  • Hardie, James, 1758-1826.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An account of the yellow fever, which occurred in the city of New-York, in the year 1822 : To which is prefixed a brief sketch of the different pestilential diseases, with which this city was afflicted, in the years 1798, 1799, 1803 & 1805, with the opinion of several of our most eminent physicians, respecting the origin of the disease, its prevention and cure. To which is added a correct list of all the deaths by yellow fever during the late season, taken from official documents / by James Hardie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wezer Taylor, Sylvanus Seaman, Monmouth Hubbs, Walter Davis, Augustus Peck, and a young man clerk inastore near the Exchange. Most of these dined there, and, during their dinner, they were under the necessity of shutting up the doors and windows, though the weath- er was very warm, so exceedingly were they annoyed, by the stench from the ship. Of this company collected from several quarters and who dispersed to their respect- ive homes, nota single one escaped severe sickness, which they were taken with in from four to five days, and of which John and Ebenezer Taylor died. ‘Two persons belonging to the family were also sick. ‘The next house above this, (there being none below it) was, at the same time, visited, and of five persons, three were taken dangerously ill and two died. In the second house above, three more persons were sick at the same time and one died, and the family of the house next to this shared a similar fate, three were sick, two of whom died in a very short time. Many of the boatmen, whose ves~ sels lay in the Slip, at this period fared no better, a num- ber of them being victims to this stench or the contagion it produced.” After some other observations, he con- cludes thus. “From these facts, it appears, that the sickness in this quarter was caused by the ship; whether it was created in her or brought from another country, I cannot undertake to determine; but be it as it may, the Sever was undoubtedly there contagious, and spread te distant parts of the town by means of the sick; the bodies of the inhabitants having (as I suppose) been rendered ripe for its reception. From here I can trace it to the neighbourhood of Golden-Hill, where a man named Har- per, died in Gold-street on the 11th of August. One Fowler died on the 18th of the same month in John-street, - and the third victim was Solomon Carl, who died on the 20th in Gold-street. Harper imputed the origin of his sickness to his having crossed the deck of the ship be- forementioned three days before he was taken.” ‘The benevolence of the wealthy inhabitants of our city as well as those of the state and different parts of New- Jersey, reflected the greatest honour on the character of ont countrymen. Upon this occasion, upwards of $7000