#1382 The Yellow Fever of 1793

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. Philadelphia's population at that time was approximately 50,000, and before it was over 1 in 10 died from the outbreak despite the best efforts of physicians of the time.

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0:00.0	Good day citizens and welcome to this week's Thomas Jefferson hour.
0:03.4	It's a bit, well, we talk about the Philadelphia Yellow Fever
0:08.2	epidemic of 1793, but we start the conversation on a humorous.
0:13.4	With my, well for me, my triumphant comedy routine at the Roper Theater,
0:19.3	which you, you, you, there's such a joy in making people have so next week we're going to talk
0:23.7	about your your big night but let me say this to you people asked about you I brought
0:29.9	you gifts people actually sent gifts to you. Yeah, I should thank
0:33.7	And I want to say Kathy Lewis who has the talk show at W. H. R. W. H. R. V.
0:40.3	is a wonderful woman. So we did her program with an interview and she's just one of my
0:45.9	favorite people and Bert Schmidt and the whole group Tom and everyone from
0:50.3	W H R O W H R V they're great and they love the Jefferson Hour, they ask after you and it's
0:57.0	just such a pleasure to go there. And the crowd that came to the thing, they're Jefferson Hour
1:02.0	people. That's why they were willing to put up with
1:03.7	my comedy stick because they like the Thomas Jefferson Hour and I'm going back on on
1:08.0	April 4th I'm glad you realize that on April 4th I'm going back to the Ferguson
1:12.0	theater at Christopher Newport to do a Jefferson
1:14.0	program and I hope they were, and then I had my book.
1:16.4	So my new book, Reparing Jefferson's America, is out, but this was a pre-publication event and we sold 140 or so books at it.
1:25.4	And then I got to take this is I really want to make this this pitch.
1:29.8	On Friday I went to the legislature to the House of Delegates in Richmond and they passed this resolution of commendation for our work for the work that we do keeping Jefferson's
1:44.4	vision of this country alive. It was one of the great honors of my life. People can
1:49.6	go to the website and they can find the archival video footage of this moment.
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