The Epidemic In Fever 1793

Fever,1793 by Laurie Hale’s Anderson is a historical fiction book about yellow fever. Fever is about a girl named Mattie and her family, and how the get through the pestilence. The reader, believes the theme is to never give up, even in the hard times. The reasons why the reader believes this is the theme, is because perseverance can help you survive through the hard times, even when it would be easier to give up its better to persevere, and when you persevere you reach your goals.

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, as the country grew and trade flourished, periodic epidemics struck regions of the nation as population density increased. Outbreaks of influenza, cholera took over the nation, and in the south, one of the most prevalent was yellow fever. Due to these diseases, a lot of public health policies were either created or changed to better suit the new issues arising. In this essay, I will argue that the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 brought upon many changes in the health realm in terms of public sanitation. In order to prove the epidemic s place in the history of health policies, I will be discussing the creation of the new sewer system, waste disposal techniques, and other projects created.

In Philadelphia, 1793, a disease that haunted and still haunts America to this day was the yellow fever. It was caused by a little but deadly mosquito called aedes. It spread this disease to many people and it killed around 5,000 people per town. It was the most deadly plague in American history. Some say it was like the black plague. I’ll be talking about why it’s called the Yellow Fever, how did it spread, how it got to America, how it affected the capital, about our local area back then, the people who were trying to help fight it, and the first hospital ever built.

Philadelphia 1793, Philadelphia was one of the most most populated places in the world with 50,000 people in it. Philadelphia started having issues like yellow fever until fever victims started showing results of what happens when you get the sickness, soon people left the cities to be close to how many people left it was approximately 20,000 people. With people leaving faster and faster per day since people were dying, people got scared I would to, since at the end of the day over 5,000 people died.

Without her grandfather she would have to figure things out all by her self since she didn’t know if her mother survived the fever. Also Mattie wouldn't know how to take care of herself since her mother and grandfather were always there for her. Then, who would take care of her on the streets of Philadelphia with Yellow fever still out on the streets. Also what if there is a possibility that Mattie gets the fever again. No one would take care of her if everyone is afraid of catching the fever.

During the Revolutionary War, one of the main fears were not the enemies bullets, but fear of disease. One of the major viruses that people had to fear was smallpox. The continental army had more to fear than the British in the fact that British had been immunized, and the continental army had not. This was only the beginning of the problems from the smallpox epidemic that broke out in America.

To fully comprehend the effect the yellow fever had on Pennsylvania in 1793, it is necessary to understand disease itself. This instance of widespread yellow fever in Philadelphia is known as an epidemic. An epidemic occurs when there is a pathogen present in the same area area as vulnerable a large number of people vulnerable to the said pathogen. Another common term for an epidemic is outbreak, but an outbreak usually occurs within a more limited area than an epidemic. An epidemic or outbreak can be brought on by an increase of a microbe that causes illness, the introduction of a disease-causing microbe into a new environment, a change to the environment that allows the pathogen to spread more readily, hosts in an area becoming more

When researching the epidemic, i learned that some of the third-phase symptoms of yellow fever are jaundice, vomiting blood, shock and multi organ failure leading to death. The author describes all of these things in the novel through the eyes of Mattie. She describes the symptoms when talking about her mother when saying that, “the fever had taken hold of her symptoms and she wept, calling my father’s name,” and when she describes her mother’s eyes as “cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red,” and when she talks about her mother being violently ill and vomiting blood all over the bed and floor. Although the fever itself is the prominent subject of the story, they're are many other things in this novel that tie this book accurately to the time period and make it a historical fiction novel. The fever took a toll on

It’s clear to see that 1793 has been a rough year for America and all of the world. France has lost its King, Europe is at war, and America has suffered an epidemic that has claimed more than 5,000 people. It's so peculiar that the year went so bad, but started so well when we touched the heavens.

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s 2000 novel Fever 1793, Matilda Cook, the main character, and her family face sickness, death, fear, and mistrust that build them into stronger and more independent characters. The story takes place in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda, also known as Mattie, lives with her mother, Lucille Cook, and works at a coffee shop that Mattie’s grandfather, Polly, their servant, and Eliza, a free black women, work at as well. Polly dies in the beginning of the story, and this is what starts the spread of rumors that there is a disease spreading around town, known as yellow fever. Mattie’s mother eventually falls ill, and a doctor diagnosis her with yellow fever. This causes Mattie and her grandfather to leave town, but they are unable to succeed in their journey from home because they become ill themselves. Mattie and her grandfather are cared for in a hospital, and they return home once they are well enough. When returning home, they find that their coffee shop has been broken into, and that Mattie’s mother and Eliza are nowhere to be found. After the all the difficulties that Mattie continues to face, the coffee shop re-opens, Mattie’s mother returns, and the city clears of yellow fever. Mattie learns how to care for others and herself, and how to deal with extreme sickness that later makes her a stronger individual, and this makes the novel a good example to readers on how to remain strong during hard times.

Fever 1793 is a novel about a fourteen-year-old girl named Matilda “Mattie” Cook who comes of age during the crazy yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda’s family has a free slave because her husband paid to get her free and she is now saving up her money to free her husband. Then later her husband died. Matilda’s father died so Matilda, her mom, and her grandfather all live together. Matilda in the book is a normal teenager, for the most part at least. Matilda’s body is changing, some are because of hormones but not all, she does not like the sound of her mom’s voice, and she also has a crush on a boy named Nathaniel Benson. Nathaniel Benson is also a painter. The outbreak of yellow fever creates a dire situation,

The author's purpose for writing this article was to inform people of The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, and show how life in the late 1700’s contributed to the outbreak. In the beginning of the passage it explains the unsanitary life of people back then. Also it explains specifically Philidelphia life. Philadelphia at the time was too overcrowded, and the market constantly having rotten food did not help with the already unclean city. The unsanitary life the passage explained is the reason for the large Yellow Fever

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The cholera outbreak or the epidemic of the mid-nineteenth century was the start of modern epidemiology. John Snow is considered the father of the modern epidemiology. Epidemiology is defined as “the distribution and determinants of health and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. Epidemiological studies are applied to the control of health problems in populations.” (Friis, Epidemiology 101, p. 3). During the mid-1800’s, John Snow revolutionized the epidemiological methods we are currently still using. John Snow believed that cholera was transmitted by contaminated water and was able to demonstrate this by mapping out the cases of cholera. Once he mapped out the cases he found that there was a cluster of cases around the Broad Street pump. The pump was removed after Snow present his evidence and the cases of cholera started to decline. This is truly remarkable for its time, linking the contaminate water to increasing cases of cholera at the time and this was all done before the development of the germ theory and the invention of the microscope. Shortly after the John Snow’s discovery, London started to in placed sewage systems. Sewage systems and treatment are responsible for providing clean drinkable to people in developed countries. Some developing countries aren’t fortunate enough to have sewage systems and treatments plants making it hard for their citizens to have access to clean drinkable water. Water is known to be

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