At the Gates: our safety depends on official vigilance
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Quarantine and the improvement of muncipal sanitation, including the increasing access for all New Yorkers to fresh water, were two of the most effective methods for fighting cholera. |
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"The specters of cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox recoil in fear as their way through the Port of New York is blocked by a barrier on which is written 'quarantine' and by an angel holding a sword and shield on which is written 'cleanliness.'" |
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Harper's Weekly. Harper & Brothers. Sept. 5, 1885. |
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Courtesy of U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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