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Posted: 19 Mar 2022

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Cholera comes to New York while Science sleeps. “Is This a time for Sleep?”
By Charles Kendrick, 1883

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. . . Cholera was a disease endemic to the Ganges River and its delta; its export to the world was one of the unintended crimes of the British East India Company. There were no fewer than six cholera pandemics in the period from 1817 to 1923: 1817-23, 1829-51; 1852-59; 1863-79; 1818-96 and 1899-1923. The first broke out near Calcutta, then moved overland to Siam (Thailand) and from thereby ship to Oman and south to Zanzibar. By 1822 it had reached Japan, as well as Mesopotamia (Iraq), Persia (Iran) and Russia. The second cholera pandemic began in1829, again in India, then moved across the Eurasian landmass to Russia and Europe, and from there to United States. The rapid growth of ports and manufacturing centers in the Industrial world has created the perfect breeding grounds for the disease: crowded accommodation with abysmal sanitation. When cholera stuck Hamburg in 1892, devastating the slum-dwelling ‘Lumpenproletariat’ of the inner city, where the mortality rate was thirteen times higher than in the city’s wealthy West End, the pioneering German bacteriologist Robert Koch commented, “Gentlemen, I forgot that I am in Europe.” While modern social historians see the Hamburg epidemic as a parable of the class structure, in reality cholera’s reign of terror in Europe’s port cities was more a consequence of Imperialism than of capitalism. ~ Page 148
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