cholera

She's going to lose a, I believe it was a son.

And it was during the cholera outbreak.

Cholera was this horrible disease people were getting.

And you have to remember in the 1800s, we didn't have the medicine that we have today.

We also didn't have the sanitation we have today.

is fenced exercise yeah that is fenced exercise to the fenced exercise yard Concrete floors and wooden pallet made for a clean environment.

Cholera had wiped out neighbors' farmers.

Hawks.

London prevented contamination by making visitors disinfect their shoes before entering the piggery.

We had a big story coming out of Johannesburg and Environs.

It is about a water treatment plant, and they didn't chlorinate the water for a period of weeks.

And, of course, the affected communities have been kind of dropping down with various ailments over the past while now.

So there's a question about what happens when drinking water is not treated properly.

or not chlorinated specifically.

The water was not chlorinated at these treatment plants.

And then there's a question from Katlejo about cholera.

Does that mean all 200 strains can be contained in the water we drink? What strain would cause us to vomit? Two different questions, but I think it pertains to the same issues that we've been reading about in South Africa.

Contagion Fears.

Number three, Cholera, Syphilis, and Tuberculosis.

As the world was shrinking because the British were just so good at moving stuff across the seas, including violence and destruction.

Well, and the cities were growing like Paris or London.

he said, "I'm gonna serve one term," and he did, and then he came home, and he did die of diverticulitis, correct?

It was, uh, cholera.

Cholera was his...

So it c- from contaminated water in, well, Nashville slash maybe on this trip down to New Orleans they took-

Okay

Disease was the silent killer that stalked every wagon train and it didn't discriminate between rich and poor, young and old, prepared and unprepared.

Cholera was the worst.

It could kill a healthy adult in a matter of hours, starting with stomach cramps and ending with violent dehydration.

Entire families would be fine at breakfast and dead by sunset.

The number of cases of smallpox has been reduced from 40,000 to a few hundred per year.

Cholera, which used to sweep away tens of thousands, is almost unknown.

With a dozen or more great hospitals and more than 300 boards of health, great things have been accomplished.

I was much interested in the report of Francis Burton Harrison, who was a recent governor-general of the Philippines, who said, quote, During the war this race of people was intensely and devotedly loyal to the cause of the United States.