Episodes Located: GALVESTON, Texas in the 1870's
- Sanitary Reform in Wake of Epidemics
October 19, 1878
GALVESTON, Texas
Government, Health/Death, Law, Science/Technology, Urban-Life/Boosterism"It is now eleven years since the fever was epidemic in Galveston, and the citizens believe that with proper attention to sanitary precautions they need never suffer again." Referring to an epidemic of the yellow fever in 1867, an article in the Scientific American used Galveston, Texas, as an example for sanitation standards when quarantining the yellow fever in 1878. The article continued...