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Primary source: “Daily Tally of Cholera Victims,” 1832.
Caption: Due to overcrowding and poor sanitation, the Five Points slum suffered numerous casualties during outbreaks of disease, as this daily report taken during the 1832 cholera epidemic makes clear.

The cholera epidemic of 1832 swept through the Five Points, an area of predominately poor and working class Irish-Americans and African Americans. This daily tally from 1832 shows the severity of the epidemic in poor and immigrant quarters.

“Daily Tally of Cholera Victims,” in Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 592.

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