{"id":630,"date":"2016-07-07T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=630"},"modified":"2025-02-11T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:14:07","slug":"cholera-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/eras-of-migration\/first-wave\/cholera-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholera Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69df2ea396ca4{font-size:32px;font-weight:600;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1467990886731 vcex_69df2ea396ca4\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Irish Immigrants and the 1849 Cholera Epidemic<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text]<em>In the summer of 1849, Boston was engulfed in a cholera epidemic that spread from England to the US via emigrant ships. Irish immigrants were particularly hard hit by the disease, accounting for more than 500\u00a0of the 611 recorded deaths in the city. In this report, Boston\u00a0officials described\u00a0Irish newcomers&#8211;mainly desperately poor famine survivors&#8211;as immoral &#8220;brutes&#8221; whose degradation and intemperance explained\u00a0the spread of the disease. But despite its\u00a0nativist bias, the report offers an unusual account of the horrific living conditions in\u00a0the Irish neighborhoods of the North End and Fort Hill (now the financial district). As in the Five Points area\u00a0of New York, Irish immigrants in these Boston neighborhoods endured grinding poverty, overcrowding, poor sanitation and ventilation, and host of social problems that they would struggle to overcome in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe class=\"pdfjs-viewer\" width=\"800px\" height=\"700px\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-viewer\/stable\/web\/viewer.html?file=https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/CholeraReport.pdf\"><\/iframe> \n<p>From: <em>Report of the Committee of Internal Health on the Asiatic Cholera<\/em>, Boston, 1849, pp. 12-16.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=&#8221;Return to Irish Page&#8221; style=&#8221;3d&#8221; color=&#8221;inverse&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Fglobalboston.bc.edu%2Findex.php%2Fhome%2Fethnic-groups%2Firish%2F|title:Irish||&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the summer of 1849, Boston was engulfed in a cholera epidemic that spread from England to the US via emigrant ships. 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