2.5: The 1832 Cholera Pandemic

<p>Cholera strikes New Orleans. Ten percent of the city is killed. Reverend Theodore Clapp performs a minister’s duty amidst the horror. We learn about bizarre treatments. Germ theory is not yet a thing.</p><p><br></p><p>READ MORE:</p><p><em>Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, during athirty-five years&#39; residence in New Orleans</em> by Theodore Clapp</p><p><em>The Cholera Years</em> by Charles E. Rosenberg</p><p>“Nineteenth Century Public Health in New York and NewOrleans: A Comparison” by John Duffy</p><p>“Cargo, ‘Infection,’ and the Logic of Quarantine in theNineteenth Century” by Davis S. Barnes</p><p>“Asiatic Cholera in Louisiana, 1832-1873” by Leland A.Langridge</p><p><em>Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues </em>editedby Joseph P. Byrne</p><p>“Outline of the History of Malignant or Asiatic Cholera inNew Orleans, La.” by Joseph Jones</p><p>“How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in19th-Century New Orleans” by Karin Wulf</p><p><br></p><p>SOUNDS:</p><p>French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0</p>