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Lot 277
[PUBLIC HEALTH - CHOLERA] [BOSTON COMMITTEE OF INTERNAL HEALTH]. Report of the Committee of Internal Health on the Asiatic cholera, together with a report of the city physician on the cholera hospital.
First edition. Original printed paper wrappers. 9 x 5 5/8 inches (23 x14.25 cm); 180, [2] pp., illustrations in text, folded map. Light wear to wrappers, some remnants of cloth once pasted over spine, short cracks to wrapper at head and tail of spine, lower corner of wrapper and first few leaves dog eared, one leaf with a three inch tear but no losses, crease to folding map, old ownership signature and spine title in ink.
A scarce govenrment report on the 1849 Cholera outbreak in Boston, which hit the city's Irish immigrant population particularly hard. The authors take a harsh nativist tone toward the recently arrived, famine-starved, Irish immigrants, describing them as having "generally loose and dirty habits... a perfect hive of human beings... huddled together like brutes." In fact, the Irish were relegated to overpopulated and poorly ventilated slums that lacked proper sewerage. The folding cholera map, one of the earliest of its kind, shows the high concentration of fatal cases originating in these areas. Sabin 6634.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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