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The paper examines the nature and causes of this contagious disease and the response of the English government, once they realized that the filthy living conditions of much of the population was the prime cause of cholera. The paper traces the medical and social reforms enacted by the government and their far-reaching effects that are still felt today. It also analyzes the reaction to the epidemic by ordinary people as well as physicians and medical practitioners.

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"Outbreaks of cholera in the nineteenth century began in Asia and India, and spread across Europe rapidly. "Every year the disease moved west, from southeastern Asia, in 1819, to China in 1820, and to Siberia in 1823. It was in Moscow by 1830, in Vienna and Berlin in 1831. It reached London in early 1832" (Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 686). This first outbreak was the worst, and was completely baffling to the people and to health professionals. They could not cure the disease, they could not control its spread, and it continued to occur in later years, which was even more frightening. There were several other outbreaks later in the nineteenth century, which did not kill as many as the first had, which some estimate killed up to 90,000 people in England. The second major outbreak was in 1848-1849, the third in 1853-1854, and the final outbreak took place in 1866."

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