Note 57 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR 1793. (continued 2)
Reading edition
From a short note in the register of the interments in the friends' burying-ground, it appears that the fever this year made its first appearance in the month of June. The following is a copy of that note: “12th of the 6th month (O. S.), 1741, a malignant yellow fever now spreads much.” Besides that note, there is the following: “25th of the 7th month (O. S.), 1741, many who died of the above distemper were persons lively, and strong, and in the prime of their time.”