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fatigue, as much as may be; and to dine moderately, on fresh animal and 

 vegetable food, about one o'clock in the day; drinking beer, cider, or 

 good brandy, respectively diluted with water, as the wholesomest bever- 

 age at meals. In the evening, tea or coffee may be drank, with simple 

 bread and butter, as in the morning; but suppers are to be avoided. 

 Dram-drinking (which some persons practise in the morning, and in- 

 deed at other times of the day,) is at all times an evil and destructive 

 habit; but at present, is doubly pernicious in its effects. 



To 'iHE Citizens. — A supply of old shirts, shifts and linen, of any 

 kind, is much wanted at the hospital for the sick. 



Those wiio have any to spare, are requested to send them to the State 



House, where a person is appointed to receive them. 



Matthew Clarkson, Mayor. 

 Sept. 13, 1793. 



The Printers are requested to publish this advertisement for a few days. 



Generous Wages will be given to persons capable and willing to 

 perform the services of Nurses at the Hospital at Buslihill, as the end 

 desired by establishing the hospital at Bushhill much depends on good 

 nursing and attendance. The citizens of Philadelphia will render es- 

 sential service to the sick, by aiding in procuring suitable persons for 

 this employment. Those who are willing to engage will please to apply 

 to Israel Israel, Thomas Wistar, or Caleb Lownes. 



Edward Movston begs leave to inform his friends and the public, 

 that he will shut up his Coffee-House to-morrow, the fever now preva- 

 lent being in its vicinity; as well as on account of none of the mer- 

 chants having frequented the same for some days past — most of them 

 having retired to the country. 



Sept. 13, 1793. d4t. 



At this particular crisis, in which so many of the merchants and 

 others are absent from the city, the indisposition of two of the letter- 

 carriers renders it necessary to request all those who dwell south of and 

 in Chesnut-street, and in Front and Water, north of Market-street, to 



call or send for their letters for a few days. 



Sept. 13. dtf. 



A Call for a Meeting. — At a meeting of a number of citizens, held 

 at the Court House, this evening, Sept. 13th, in consequence of a verbal 

 appointment of the Mayor and others convened at the City Hall, to 

 take into consideration the present calamitous state of the city and its 

 environs, having, in company with the overseers of the i)Oor, made in- 

 quiry into the situation of the poor and afflicted, are of the ojjinion 

 that, as it is not in the power of the overseers to afford the necessary 



