Philadelphia Facts: The Fact Of Philadelphia In 1793

Philadelphia Facts

Philadelphia in 1793 was not so good, it was actually a very horrible time,many people died,not many people lived.5,000 people were actually listed in the official register of deaths between August 1 and November 9.Many people were extremely scared that them or someone that they loved would die.They would bury beds into the ground and take them out hoping they would be clean of disease.The people would even shoot
cannons in the street and they thought that would clean the disease out of the air. Some doctors thought it would be smart to bleed out the victims and they would make them throw up multiple times. Some cities wouldn’t let the diseased into the there cities.The sick would just sometimes be thrown out on the street

and left to die, there own families would throw them out and just let them die. Philadelphia was the largest city in the U.S at the time with about 50,000 residents.Many people fled the city with their families in hope that other cities would let them in, in the book at has this one part that has Matilda and her grandfather trying to get into a city but they have a roadblock with a doctor and he checks if anyone is infected or not.According to most articles it says that many African American people were nurses at the time because many white people did not want to help they just wanted to flee the city.Many other cities got scared and did not want anyone to enter the city no matter what.Some cities sent doctors to help fellow cities.In the “Fever” book it says that church bells rang every times that a person died.I just could imagine how scary that would be for the people of philadelphia.Many people went to church to pray for their families any pray that nothing would happen to them.Little people signed up for picking up bodies and carrying the bodies to where they had to be.Dr.Benjamin Rush was the dumb doctor that thought bleeding out people was a good idea.It was said that he killed more people than he actually healed or cured.I guess he wasn’t a very smart man even though he was a doctor. I guess people did actually turn yellow hours before they died. The cities hired people to “clean” the streets of bodies. The yellow fever was horrible and I hope nothing like that ever happens again because if it did there might be someone like Dr.Rush,and we don’t want that ever again.