Description acceptable. J. M. Powell’s book Bring Out Your Dead chronicled Matthew Clarkson’s role in responding to this event, despite the departure of some Common Council members. The Guardians of the Poor assisted people during this event, during which a man who used the pseudonym Anthony Benezet called for Black residents to (10[1])“offer your services.” (10[2])During this event, which provided the backdrop to Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Arthur Mervyn, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (10[1])helped organize (10[1])Black workers, (10[1])who were falsely (10[1])believed to have medical immunity. (10[1])Thousands (10[1])fled (10[1]-5[1])from (10[1])neighborhoods (-5[1])like Society (10[1])Hill (10[1])during this 1793 (-5[1])event, (10[3])in which (10[1])Benjamin (10[2]-5[1])Rush (-5[1])treated people (10[1]-5[2])in the US’s first capital. For 10 (10[1])points, (-5[1])name this epidemic that killed over 5,000 people (10[1]-5[1])bitten by mosquitoes (-5[1])in (-5[1])Pennsylvania. (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[3]0[14])