In Washington DC (where there are no…

1833 CE

In Washington DC (where there are no reliable mortality figures), Michael Shiner, an enslaved laborer at the Washington Navy Yard records, “The time the colery [cholera] broke out in about June and July August and September 1832 it Raged in the City of Washington and every day they wher [were] twelve or 13 carried out to they [their] graves a day."

The epidemic of cholera, cause unknown and prognosis dire, has reached its peak.

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cholera pandemic, 1826–1837 View →

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