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This good news was followed almost immediately by a contradictory report from Comptroller Wolcott. After several good days in the city, he explained, warm weather reappeared and deaths increased, jumping to 82 on October 22. Wolcott advised the president to delay his return trip several more days....

This didn't please the anxious president, who had already been out of touch with critically important matters for over six weeks. He could write back and ask again what was happening in the city, but this would take an unbearable amount of time. Before the fever, a letter could travel by fast post from his home to the city and a reply be received in three to six days. Now letters to and from Philadelphia had to undergo special processing, such as being dipped in vinegar and allowed to dry. It was taking mail anywhere from ten days to two weeks to make the journey these days! Further delay was out of the question.

Based on the passage and what you have leamed in the lesson, write three to four sentences explaining whether dipping letters in vinegar to prevent the spread of yellow fever was a good conclusion. 2-3 sentences

Dipping letters in vinegar to prevent the spread of yellow fever may have seemed like a reasonable precaution at the time, considering the lack of understanding about how the disease spread. However, with our modern knowledge of the transmission of yellow fever, we now know that this method would not have been effective in preventing the spread of the disease through mail. It is likely that the time-consuming process of treating mail with vinegar had little impact on preventing the spread of yellow fever.

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Dipping letters in vinegar to prevent the spread of yellow fever was likely an ineffective measure, given what we now know about how the disease actually spreads. The time-consuming process of treating mail with vinegar probably did not have much impact on preventing the transmission of yellow fever.