In the 19th century, there were many cholera outbreaks. People were scared they were going to somehow catch the disease. People were scared because of the outbreak in New York. Soon, people learned how to prevent the disease and it isn't as common anymore.. Cholera was a serious disease that plagued many regions in the world such as in Europe, North America, and most of Asia in the 1800s. For much of the 1800s, scientists thought that cholera came from exposure to contaminated things in general such as, doorknobs, the bottom of a shoe, or a bathroom. They assumed cholera was a “locally produced miasmatic disease” (Harvard University Library Open Connections Program). People believed that they were more likely to get cholera if exposed to bad environmental conditions. Therefore, being rich or poor, or having good or bad environmental conditions, can…show more content… It killed thousands of people in North America and Europe. Cholera was spread in India, in 1817. It “spread through most of Asia and the Middle East throughout the 1820s” (McNamara, Robert). By 1830, Cholera had gone all the way to the northern reaches of England. The disease spread through London, to Paris, across the Atlantic Ocean, in Quebec, and through the Mississippi Valley. Many people died of cholera at that time. In New York City, the fear of cholera spreading there resulted thousands of people to flee the city. “It is believed that at least 100,000 left the city during the summer of 1832” (McNamara, Robert). The epidemic of 1832 is now known as the “cholera times” (Philip Hone). Many people died during the epidemic. After the Cholera Epidemic was over, it was obvious that cities had to have cleaner water. In New York City, they constructed a reservoir system which supplied the city with safe, clean drinking water. Two years after the cholera epidemic, it was reported again, “but it did not reach the level of the 1832 epidemic” (McNamara,
