Cholera in Detroit: A History

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Right through the mid- to late 19th century, Detroit and the American Midwest were the sites of five major cholera epidemics. The first of these, the 1832 outbreak, used to be of particular significance–an unexpected consequence of the Black Hawk War. In an effort to suppress the Native American uprising then taking place in regions around present-day Illinois, General Winfield Scott had been ordered by President Andrew Jackson to transport his troops from Virginia to the Midwest. Whilst passing through New York State the men were exposed to cholera, transmitting the disease to the population of Detroit when they reached that city. Because of this, cholera used to be established as a virulent disease disease within the upper Midwest. Further outbreaks took place in 1834, 1849, 1854 and 1866, in the end resulting within the deaths of hundreds of individuals. This book is the story of those outbreaks and the efforts to keep watch over them.

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