Independent Gazetteer August 17

Just prior to the outbreak of the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, the weekly Independent Gazetteer shared a report on an outbreak of "flux" in the vicinity of Georgetown, Maryland, (soon to be part of the District of Columbia.) The report suggested up to 500 people had died. The flux was most likely dysentery. The report of the disease came with suggested remedies for it. This was characteristic of how diseases were reported in the 1790s.