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In the summer of 1849, Boston was engulfed in a cholera epidemic that spread from England to the US via emigrant ships. Irish immigrants were particularly hard hit by the disease, accounting for more than 500 of the 611 recorded deaths in the city. In this report, Boston officials described Irish newcomers–mainly desperately poor famine ...
The first known cholera in St. Louis was in 1832. More than 300 people died that summer, and more died during each of the following three summers. However, it was the epidemic of 1849 that wiped ...
Jul 30, 2020 · Curve ball; the story today is from 70 years before that. In 1849, a ferocious cholera epidemic killed from 7 to 10% of the city’s population and decimated the economy of fast growing St. Louis. In the absence of public health policy, residents only recourse was a voluntary approach to addressing the crisis.
There were 65 lots in the town, with the average size being 52’ x 132’. On March 28, 1837, 10 outlots were added, bringing the total to 160.15 acres. When cholera struck in 1849, 57 of the 75 lots and outlots had been sold. The town of Amsterdam was platted and entered for record August 10, 1837 at St. Marys, then a part of Mercer County.
Mar 30, 2018 · Between 1848 and 1854, a series of cholera outbreaks occurred in London with large-scale loss of life. One epidemic of cholera occurred in the area of Broad Street, Golden Square, in Soho, a poor district of central London with unhygienic industries and housing. John Snow was born in 1813 in York, England, the first of nine children.
Cholera in Victorian Britain represented fear of the unknown. It originated from Asia and many doctors were unfamiliar with its cause or treatment. It reached Europe in 1830 and Britain experienced its first epidemic in 1832 when 52,000 died. A second outbreak followed in 1848-9 and caused the death of 53,293 people.
France and Italy were infected, as were Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa. England suffered a virulent onslaught; at its height, the epidemic claimed some 1,000 lives a day. In May 1849, cholera began spreading rapidly from foci in New York City and New Orleans until most of the United States east of the Rockles was affected.
