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A Case of Yellow Fever

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  • Title: A Case of Yellow Fever
  • Date: 17 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01222
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 17 August 1858: 3. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Thara Michaelis Tara Ballard Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "A Case of Yellow Fever." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01222.xml (TEI)
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A CASE OF YELLOW FEVER.—

A death by Yellow Fever occurred in Brooklyn this morning. The deceased was a man named Wiers: he died at 97 Union street. He came in a vessel that was discharged from Quarantine about three days ago. The terrible malady manifested itself yesterday, and Dr. Valentine was called to attend him. The case was not reported to the Health officer in compliance with law, but information was conveyed to the 3d precinct police station.

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