The Asiatic cholera revisits Louisville this year, in common with the rest of the State and country, and this time with seriously fatal effect in the city which had theretofore been almost exempt. In May none died, while other places were much afflicted, fourteen dying in the lunatic asylum in Lexington; but in June sixty persons in Louisville perished of the scourge, and in July one hundred and forty one. Yet the percentage of population attacked or slain by the disease was much smaller than in many other cities and towns.
Mr. Deering says, in his pamphlet of 1859, that the cholera visitations of 1832-33-49 began each in identically the same square, and within a few yards of the same spot. In the latter the sanitary conditions of this locality were improved, and the cholera did not return to it.
Submitted by Claire – e-mail ommitted by request of submitter
(Originally posted 24 JUL 2000)
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