Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | The Great Debate | 4
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Clean the Cities
City officials were able to frame this cleaning not as a effort to Rid the city of disease have vectors but a religious duty. Yeah, it was a scientific and religious campaign to clean the cities. For the localists Cleaning the cities was going to get rid of the sources that generated yellow fever But it also was going to absolve the sin that had allowed that cleanliness to be there in the first place which was the denial of these clear cut laws against cleanliness.
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