History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0456 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Disease in the City
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The idea
Crowding and poor sanitation let epidemics spread quickly, and Memphis suffered cholera in eighteen seventy-three and yellow fever in eighteen seventy-eight and seventy-nine.
In practice
More than ten thousand lives lost in those Memphis epidemics.
Where people slip
Clean water and sewers became urgent public problems. Cities had to provide services the countryside took for granted.
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