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5. An act for establishing an health office, for securing the city and port of Philadelphia, from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases

Author(s):
Pennsylvania.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed [by Samuel F. Bradford] at the office of the "True American.", 1799
Subject(s):
Social Medicine -- legislation & jurisprudence
Quarantine -- legislation & jurisprudence
Public Health
Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control
Pennsylvania

6. Pennsylvania, ss. In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Thomas Mifflin, governor of the said commonwealth, a proclamation: whereas I have heretofore issued a proclamation, bearing date of the 29th day of June last, thereby declaring and establishing a quarantine to be performed by all vessels arriving in this port from any of the West-India Islands, from New-Orleans, or from any Dutch, French or Spanish port, on the Main ... Hereby publicly notifying, that, during the continuance of said quarantine, all vessels suspected of infection shall anchor under the guns of the fort on Mud-Island ...Given under my hand and the great seal o- [sic] the state, at Philadelphia, the twentieth day July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six

Author(s):
Pennsylvania. Governor (1790-1799 : Mifflin)
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1796]
Subject(s):
Quarantine -- legislation & jurisprudence
Pennsylvania

8. The acts of Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals: and an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered or repealed ; together with the royal, proprietary, city and borough charters ; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province

Author(s):
Pennsylvania.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, in Market-Street, between Front and Second-Streets, MDCCLXXV [1775]
Subject(s):
Ownership
Pennsylvania

9. To the Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: the memorial of the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, respectfully sheweth, that, in the beginning of the year 1751, a plan was presented to the Assembly, for a public hospital, for the benevolent purpose of receiving and accommodating the lunatics and sick poor of Pennsylvania

Author(s):
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1797]
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Public -- legislation & jurisprudence
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)