In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics ...

Meanwhile, Dr Henry Gaulter has begun to plot cholera outbreaks on a map and begins to believe there is a link between poverty and cholera. Students could discuss the reasons why disease spread so ...

For more than 180 years, cholera was blamed by railroad officials for the deaths of 57 Irish immigrants who died within six weeks of being hired by Philip Duffy in 1832, write Immaculata ...

There were three waves of cholera in the United States between 1832 and 1866. While the disease began in India, it spread to the US through trade routes. The disease first affected the population ...

Report is on the cholera outbreaks in central London in 1832, 1848-9,1851,1852, 1853 and (specifically) 1854. Much reference is made to a public water pump in Broad Street. Meteorological conditions ...

In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...

Dr Henry Gaulter’s cholera map led him to believe housing played a role in the spread of cholera in parts of Britain. He interviews residents of back-to-backs. The voice-over explains why this ...