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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    mers could they make it? But, alas! it too often hap- pens, that “men are lost for want of thought.” 3 But whilst [ blame those, who remained in the infected district, after the solemn admonitions, which they had received to leave it, there were others, whose conduct was still more reprehensible, and who paid dearly for their temerity. Several persons, chiefly young men, actuated by an idle curiosity, or, perhaps, led by that propensity, which is so incident to human nature, to do that, whichve are forbidden, entered the interdicted district, and soon afterwards paid for their folly by the loss of their lives. Ido not say, that when a man is di- rected by public authority to visit an infected spot, he ought not to go. He is then on duty, engaged in en- deavouring to promote the welfare ef his fellow creatures, and may reasonably expect the protection of his God; but he, who goes to sucha place merely to see it, be- cause he has been told, that he ought not to go there, or more probably to shew himself as a braggadocie, can have no such confidence. | After these observations, which I trust will not appear to be improper, I return to the proceedings of the Board of Healthc. | | A letter was read from the Health Commissioners of Boston requesting information, respecting the character, degree and extent of the fever in this city, that they might be enabled to adopt suitable measures for their own safe- ty, without resorting to unnecessary steps, which might interrupt the intercourse between the two cities. This letter was couched in the most friendly terms and a suita- The Board then directed an extension of the limits of the infected district, viz. that they should go so far as to mclude Rector-street to Broadway, and Lumber-street to Broadway. | The reason of this extension is easily explained. mome cases of fever had made their appearance, at a short distance, to which it had been at first confined. ; On the 10th of August, Doctor Neilson reported Mary Roe, a mulatto woman, as a case of Yellow Fever. She had been taken sick on the Sth instant, while nursing My...