Limit of Population

"The yellow fever will discourage the growth of great cities in out nation"

This quote from Fever 1793 interprets that day by day, hour per hour, minute by minute, and second per second the people of Philadelphia were dyeing. With that said, the population was going down and discouraging the cities from growth. There were only a few who had survived the fever, in the case of Matilda she and her mother survived. Whithin total of thousands of souls flied during the year 1793 in the cities of philadelphia.