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Other Affected Countries
England, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Hungary, China, Japan, Java, Korea, the Philippines, India, Bengal, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Arabia, and Africa.
In Russia alone, cholera killed over one million people, including the famous composer, Tchaikovsky.
Immigrants infected with cholera brought it to America, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and the Pacific Coast. -
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British Empire
British Empire had grown to be the largest empire in world history, controlling over 13 million square miles and ruling over a half billion people, including India.
In India, some religious practices included bathing in the sewage-filled Ganges River.
As a result, individuals contracted a water-born disease of CHOLERA.
East India Company built railroads across the country ... so infected individuals could quickly travel back to Europe, carrying cholera with them.
First truly global disease. -
Asiatic Cholera in New York
Gripped New York.
U.S. Senator Henry Clay asked for a Joint Resolution of Congress to request that President Jackson set:
"A Day of Public Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnity."
By 1849, cholera killed 5,000 in New York, with a mass grave on Randall's Island in the East River. -
Cincinnati Cholera
Death of 8000.
Cholera deaths caused Ohio to postpone its first State Fair.
Harriett Beecher Stowe's infant son succumbed to cholera, as well as former 11th U.S. President James K. Polk. -
New Orleans Cholera
3000 killed. -
St. Louis Cholera
Spreading up the Mississippi, 5,000 were killed by cholera in St. Louis, which was about 6% of the city's population, among them being Pierre Chouteau, Sr., one of the St. Louis' prominent early settlers.
"St. Louis was a fast-growing city of 75,000, with immigrants arriving by the steamboat-load. It also had no sewer system ...Cholera killed at least 6 percent of the city's population ... The official death toll was 4,317 ..."
Indian tribes along the Missouri River were devastated. -
Chicago Cholera
3,500 died. -
Tennessee Cholera
Cholera ravaged the Tennessee towns of Gallatin, Murfreesboro, Clarksville, Shelbyville, Franklin, Pulaski and McMinnville.
"Feb 11th 1849 Dear Aunt ... We may be enjoying the society of each other ... and ... the next day ... follow us to the grave ... The Cholera is very bad in Nashville. You must stay with us until it has abaited. We have had some severe attacks of the cholera morbus ... Ma and grand Ma have been very sick the baby is also sick ... Your affectionate niece, Mary C." -
Northwest Cholera
Cholera spread along the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest and the Mormon Trail to Utah.
It killed an estimated 12,000 on their way to the California Gold Rush. -
Soho
John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and ...considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854.
This confirmed that the disease was spread through drinking contaminated water (Medical Times and Gazette):
"On proceeding to the spot, I found that nearly all the deaths had taken place within a short distance of the (Broad Street) pump ..."