Excerpt from Letter of the Hon. Stephen Allen, Mayor of the City of New-York, to Joseph Bayley, Health Officer of the Port, in Relation to the Cases of Yellow Fever, at the Quarantine Ground in 1821, and Dr. Bayley's Report Thereon As you suggested the propriety of my making an inquiry into the situation of the vessels at Quarantine, and all other circumstances which might in any manner be connected with the origin of Yellow Fever at Staten Island during the last season: in compliance with your written request I re Spectfully submit the following facts and observations on this subject, so highly importantito the health and prosperity of our commercial city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.