Note 95 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR 1793. (continued 4)
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It appears from one of Mr. Norris's letters, dated the 9th of November, O. S. that there died 220 persons, in the year 1699, with the yellow fever. Between 80 and 90 of them, he says, belonged to the society of friends. The city, at this time, probably, did not contain more than 2 or 3000 people, many of whom, it is probable, fled from the disease.