Facts and observations relative to the nature and origin of the pestilential fever, which prevailed in this city, in 1793, 1797, and 1798 / By the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

  • College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Date:
1799
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    was pafted the fucceeding fefiion, which excluded them from any further fhare in the bufinefs. About the latter end of July, 1797, the malignant contagious fever again appeared in Philadelphia: and on the fifteenth of Auguft a letter was received from the governor, requeft- ing information concerning its exiftence, and “ An opinion on the beft mode of preventing the calamity threatened.” The college immedi- ately directed their prefident to inform the governor, that fuch a difeafe had lately appeared in Penn ftreet and its neighbourhood, and on the feventeenth of the month, in a letter to the governor, gave their opinion of the beft mode of averting the threatened calamity, by firft, prefcribing the methods for preventing the fpreading of contagious difeafes when intro- duced, and fecondly, by preventing their intro- duction. To attain the firft of thefe purpofes, they recommended ftriCt attention to cleaning and watering the ftreets, habits of temperance, at- tention to cloathing, exercife, &c. to avoid in- tercourfe with the fick, and to purify places fufpeCted or occupied by the fick. For the fecond purpofe, they recommended a new law on the fubjeCt, which will be here- after recurred to. See next page. On the twenty-fecond day of Auguft, the Board of Health required the college to adopt and publifh fuch advice as would tend to check the progrefs of contagion. The college, accord- ingly, on the twenty-fifth, furniftied the board