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Primary source: Newspaper article, 1832.
Caption: This article, written during the cholera epidemic of 1832, conveyed the opinion that only certain social types contracted the deadly disease.
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Every day's experience gives us increased assurance of the safety of the temperate and prudent, who are in circumstances of comfort. . . . The disease is now, more than before rioting in the haunts of infamy and pollution. A prostitute at 62 Mott Street, who was decking herself before the glass at 1 o'clock yesterday, was carried away in a hearse at half past three o'clock. The broken down constitutions of these miserable creatures, perish almost instantly on the attack. . . . But the business part of our population, in general, appear to be in perfect health and security.
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New-York Mercury (18 July 1832), in Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 42 n. 3.
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