Comments on: The Immigrant Experience in 1892: New York’s Cholera Scare and its Effect on Boston http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/03/03/the-immigrant-experience-in-1892-new-yorks-cholera-scare-and-its-effect-on-boston/ Exploring New England As It Was Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: E. Howard http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/03/03/the-immigrant-experience-in-1892-new-yorks-cholera-scare-and-its-effect-on-boston/#comment-745 Sun, 27 May 2012 03:40:10 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=2068#comment-745 My grandfather, Henry Borchardt, was on this ship. He was eighteen months old at this time, and because they were brought up on deck, he saw a whale, which he remembered all his life.
The family then travelled to Galveston, Texas, and settled in DeWitt county as farmers. He was one of the founders of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Westhoff, TX.

]]> By: Karen K http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/03/03/the-immigrant-experience-in-1892-new-yorks-cholera-scare-and-its-effect-on-boston/#comment-419 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:05:27 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=2068#comment-419 Very interesting, Ryan! By the 1890′s, a connection between cholera and contaminated drinking water and food had been established, though some still insisted that the cause was breathing foul air.

Don’t think they had actually identified the Cholera bacterium or anything, but they knew that good sanitation prevented the spread of the disease.

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