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The 1885 cholera epidemic is a widely told myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_chole
by ParahSailin 13y ago
The 1885 cholera epidemic is a widely told myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_m...
- jusben1369 13y agoWell I was going simply off the article. Still, even that entry shows pretty consistent spurts of deaths hitting 3 - 5% of the population so it's pretty consistent with the point of the article (after multiple years of deaths they were force/spurred to act)