in different Parts of the United- States. 37 



All the persons within the enclosure of the Lazaretto, 

 which is about twelve miles to the southward of Phila- 

 delphia, escaped the disease till the 20th of August, 

 two days previous to which a pilot, by the name of 

 Robinson, arrived ill with it from Newcastle. Captain 

 Egger, the quarantine-master, was the first attacked by 

 it after his arrival, and almost every person at the La- 

 zaretto in succession soon after. This intelligence was 

 communicated to me by Dr. Buchanan, the Lazaretto- 

 physician. 



On the 20th of August, Mrs. Adams, while indis- 

 posed with the Influenza, visited her sick child, under 

 my care, at Mrs. Wise's, near Germantown, at which 

 time every person in the house was free from the dis- 

 ease, and none of them had been in the city for more 

 than two weeks. On the 23d, Mrs. Adams's mother, 

 and, on the 24th, the child's nurse, were attacked with 

 the usual symptoms of the disease ; and, on the 25th, 

 another person, who had sat in the chamber a consider- 

 able time, after Mrs. Adams's arrival, all of whom had 

 the disease in a severe manner. 



Dr. Hewson, physician to the State-Prison, in this 

 city, informs me, that there were only two patients with 

 the disease in the prison on the 7th of August ; but 

 that, in the course of four or five days, the number in- 

 creased to about forty, and, at the end of the week, to 

 nearly a hundred. 



The weather which preceded and accompanied the 

 Influenza, that prevailed in this country in 1789, was 



