Name_____________________Date__________ Period______
1793 Yellow Fever in Philadelphia
1. What was the cause of the outbreak?
2. Who was affected? Who was blamed?
3. What were some of the symptoms? (3)
4. What were Doctors trying to do to stop or cure Yellow
Fever?
5. What was Philadelphia like in 1793? What were the
advantages of living in the countryside outside of
Philadelphia?
6. How many people lived in Philadelphia in 1793? How
many died from Yellow fever?
7. Philadelphia, in 1793, was known as “Our Nation’s
_________.”
8. Why is this (#7) so important to the nation?
9. What ended the outbreak of 1793? Did Yellow fever ever
return to Philadelphia?
10.
What, if anything, did the people, Doctors and
government officials learn from this event and what did
they do about it?