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Epidemics: Cholera in Nineteenth Century New York

WebMeasuring the reaction of New Yorkers to these increasingly traumatic public health disasters shows how understandings of disease were filtered through contemporary …

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Epidemics: Cholera in Nineteenth Century New York

(9 days ago) WebCholera was among the most virulent infectious diseases to strike nineteenth-century New York. Transmitted by contaminated food and water, cholera causes diarrhea and …

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The Sick Goose and the Council of Health

(1 days ago) WebThe Sick Goose and the Council of Health In the years before the cholera vibrio virus was isolated and germ theory was successfully adopted by the medical profession, curatives …

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(7 days ago) WebThe Common Council, the legislative branch of New York City government, appointed a standing Board of Health in 1805 after a series of yellow fever epidemics had ravaged …

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Suppressing Nuisances

(1 days ago) WebThe Metropolitan Board of Health suppressing nuisances in a tenement house in New York City. Description: Event Date: Publication: Harper's Weekly. Octobe 6, 1866. Artist: …

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Underground Life in New York

(1 days ago) WebOriginal Caption: Health officers clearing out a "dive." Description: Event Date: Publication: Harper's Weekly. July 12, 1873. Artist: Owner: Source: Tearsheet

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Germans-Encyclopedia of New York City

(2 days ago) WebThe large influx of German immigrants to the city led to the establishment of many breweries. George Ehret, a German immigrant who opened the Hell Gate brewery in …

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(7 days ago) WebCholera itself continued to appear periodically later in the nineteenth century. After Robert Koch discovered the cholera vibrio in 1883, testing for the disease became much easier, …

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Cholera in London

(1 days ago) Web"Two vignettes: Frankenstein's Creating Peers, a political satire; and A London Board of Health Hunting After Cases Like Cholera, a caricature of the medical profession" Event …

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(7 days ago) WebMost commentators on the outbreak viewed cholera in such moralistic terms rather than as a general public health problem. While the outbreak did spur some debate over public …

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(7 days ago) WebThe Board of Health published updates on the progress of cholera, which only served to publicly record its own weakness. It was seemingly less active in 1849 than it had been …

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Blacks-Encyclopedia of New York City

(7 days ago) WebBy 1850 most of the city's blacks were living in or near Greenwich Village, and by 1860 others had settled on the West Side between 10th and 30th streets, the infamous …

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