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April 16th, 2008

Historic Health: ‘Plague in Gotham! Cholera in 19th Century NYC.’

“…one may take a walk up & down Broadway & scare meet a soul.”
Almost impossible to imagine these days but apparently that was the way it was back in 1832 when New York City was in the middle of a cholera epidemic.
By the time it had ended, over 3000 people had died out a population […]

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