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The 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic: The Washingtons, Hamilton and Jefferson
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Epidemics & public health · August–November 1793Open article references →
The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Old City waterfront and former Dock Creek district · United States
Why editors use it hereUses manuscripts and contemporary publications to document flight, federal officials, relief, and mortality.
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Yellow fever swept Philadelphia, then the national capital and largest American city, from late summer until frost in November 1793.
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Trigger and conditions
Physicians noticed a cluster of severe fever near the Delaware waterfront in August.
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Uncertainty
Contemporary death lists were incomplete and historians commonly use an estimate near five thousand.
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Why it matters
The epidemic shows that uncertainty does not affect everyone equally.
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