Kentucky State Epidemics
Source: CANADA
MEDICAL JOURNAL
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCE.
EDITED BY
GEORGE E. FENWICK, M.D., 1869
Cholera Outbreaks 1833- 1849
Doctor J. M. Jackson, of Danville, Kentucky, says the first cases of
cholera were in 1833, in the persons of five negroes, wagon drivers, who
were engaged in hauling " cotton bagging " to Louisville, Kentucky, and
returning with dry goods. They were in the employ of Rice A Co.
There was then no cholera nearer than Louisville.
Dr. Sweeny, now in Lincoln county, Kentucky, says that in 1849
there was no cholera in Rockcastle county, and none nearer than Louisville,
Kentucky, one hundred to one hundred and ten miles distant. A
citizen returned from Louisville and was seized with cholera, and died,
as did some of the neighbors who attended him, until there were nine
deaths in all. So struck were the people with the conviction of the
contagiousness of the disease that no communication could be induced
between the sick and healthy.
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