Report of the Philadelphia Relief Committee, Appointed to Collect Funds for the Sufferers by Yellow Fever: At Norfolk & Portsmouth, Va., 1855 |
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00 Church 00 Workmen A. B. Campbell Account Amount brought forward August Bank of Virginia Bank's draft bill Board of Health Cash paid cent Ch'm Chairman Chairman's Statement continued Christopher Fallon citizens Collections Committee of Relief contributions Contributors Amount brought Councils D. D. Fiske DEAR SIR:-Your disease draft on Bank Druggist duty enclosed epidemic esteemed favor Farmers & Mechanics FERGUSON filth Francis Grice Fund Gosport Howard Association James John John Baird Lazaretto letter Lodge malignant fever Mayor of Portsmouth mortality Nathan Thompson Norfolk and Portsmouth Northern Liberties Nurse orphans pestilence Philadelphia Contributors Amount physicians population port Portsmouth and Norfolk Portsmouth Sufferers prevent Quinine receipt received from Block remitted to D. D. remitted to Howard respectfully sanitary sent Sept sick SOLOMON CHERRY sum received THOMAS WEBSTER THOS tion to-day town truly volunteers voucher Wharf wharves Yellow Fever
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Page 25 - In addition," continues the same writer, " to the prevalence of the morbific atmosphere which we have clearly shown developed itself on board the Mandarin, but not until her cargo was discharged, and which so sensibly affected individuals on approaching her when she lay at Almond Street wharf, we must not, for a moment, conceal the existing causes in the immediate vicinity of South Street wharf, sufficient to justify the supposition of their agency in the development of disease of a malignant type,...
Page 128 - We, therefore, strongly recommend the prosecution of the plan now in contemplation for removing the whole of the buildings from the east side of Front St., inclusive, to the river, beginning at Vine and ending at South St., according to the original plan of William Penn, the wise and intelligent founder of our city.
Page 22 - Such an arrangement will sometimes be found to be like mercy twice blessed, — it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Page 128 - ... thoroughly cleansed. And, lastly, we would advise strict attention to the means for producing cleanliness and free ventilation, especially in those parts of the city near the Delaware, where the malignant fever has always made its first appearance. This cannot be done whilst Water Street continues in its present confined situation, with the accumulated filth of many years, and, for the most part, without privies. We, therefore, strongly recommend the prosecution of the plan now in contemplation...
Page 128 - This procedure should take place during the whole year with respect to vessels from the Mediterranean. To prevent the spreading of malignant fever amongst us, the Board of Health should have full power to remove vessels, and persons, and to prevent communication with infected places ; also, to have infected houses, bedding, and clothing, thoroughly cleansed. And lastly, We would recommend a strict attention to the means of producing cleanliness, and...
Page 123 - ... from Submersion, and express its opinion of the comparative merits of the essays. December 5, 1820. The entrance fee to the College was reduced to ten dollars. The following, addressed to the President of the College, was read : The Select and Common Councils at their last meeting appointed a joint committee "to inquire into the facts connected with the appearance and prevalence of malignant or pestilential disease during the past summer and present autumn, and report those means they may deem...
Page 31 - ... nature something it meets with there. In other words, the peculiar poisonous effluvium which, if imported into a perfectly clean locality, would occasion no evil effect, acts very differently when brought, during hot weather, to a place replete with the materials from which issue morbid effluvia ; for it then plays on those materials the part of a ferment, and through their agency is enabled to reproduce itself, or out of them to give origin to a substance of the same nature, or endowed with...
Page 24 - Belt-limited disease; it is not to be treated — it is to be managed. All that is to be done is to keep the patient alive for a certain time, and he will get well.
Page 18 - ... the mortality in their ranks in the Portsmouth and Norfolk campaign exceeds the mortality among the regular officers of the Russian and Allied armies in the campaigns of the Crimea. If there was heroic courage shown in storming or defending the Malakoff, and in the attempt on the Redan, it required yet more to minister to the sick and dying in the plague-stricken cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth.