Fever 1793 Visual Response
Editor's Notes
- Social classes ranked by income, jobs, and land ownership
- One of the worst epidemics in U.S. history
- Once a month at best, more on specially occasions Many washed clothes more frequently than themselves
- Doctors didn’t wash their tools after very often, had dried blood and dirt on them
- Conduct business, talk politics, catch up on day’s news
- Chaplain Jacob Duche leading the first prayer in the First Continental Congress at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia