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The document discusses the 1892 cholera outbreak and responses to it. It establishes quarantine protocols, requires medical documentation from shipping lines, and gives the president authority to enact quarantines. It also discusses opponents to increased immigration restrictions, including claims that Americans were immune to cholera. Yiddish newspapers called for improved sanitation to address the threat.

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Quarantine

The document discusses the 1892 cholera outbreak and responses to it. It establishes quarantine protocols, requires medical documentation from shipping lines, and gives the president authority to enact quarantines. It also discusses opponents to increased immigration restrictions, including claims that Americans were immune to cholera. Yiddish newspapers called for improved sanitation to address the threat.

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By Winter 1892-93
Lizzie Borden took an ax,
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.

Grover Cleveland Elected President


Ȉ Surgeon General
and staff organize
international
surveillance

Concerns
Ȉ Physicians, public
Remain health workers,
businessmen,
legislators and
journalists gather
in Washington
þorcing the Issue
Ȉ Senator William
Chandler submits
a bill
Ȉ Non-intercourse
with disease-ridden
countries
Ȉ A most conspicuous
symbol
Gilded Age Americans

Ȉ In favor of open
immigration

Ȉ Thought of
America as a
welcoming land of
the oppressed
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Quarantine Policy

20 Day Quarantine Order


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suspension of
immigration that
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Emily Wardle
Different Theories
Lay it on the Table
Johns Hopkins Hospitalǯs medical staff Ȃ September 1, 1892
Ȉ Secret meeting
Ȉ Petitioned president to suspend all immigration to
prevent a cholera epidemic
Ȉ þinal decision to be made by Congress
Ȉ Alabama Senator John Tyler Morgan
Ȉ DzThe king of terrors (cholera) seems to have no power at
all unless he has got a doctor for a leader in some way or
other.dz

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