Thursday, November 12, 2009

Annotation Number Three.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/yellowfever/YF_FactSheet.html
This source will further educate me on the actual sickness of yellow fever.
It tells how the fever effects your body.


"Yellow Fever Fact Sheet"

Page last modified: June 11, 2007
Content Source:
Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases

Annotation Number Two.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/yellowfever.htm
This will give me more of an idea of how doctors dealt with health back in the day, and how they tried to solve the issues. Dr. Benjamin Rush was the city's leading physician at the time and this talks about how helps the city's fever.













"Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia, 1793," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2005).

Annotation Number One.

1. www.fairmounrtwaterworks.org

The fairmount water works played a large role in supplying old Philadelphia with water.
This website is for the interpretive center that is located on the very spot where the history all took place. On this website it concludes how the Yellow Fever struck Philadelphia, and how the Water Works made efforts to improve public health.

Thesis For NHD Research Essay

The advent of water filtration in Philadelphia has improved public health, and has made great impact on the city both Politically and economically. Filtration has since changed the whole nation. Sand filtration has since opened doors in technology as well as jobs. The venture for clean water is very difficult in some countries, thankfully in America we have filtration.