reading response

Hist 170A JOURNAL PROMPT for WEEK 2

PANDEMIC & PUBLIC POLICY, 19th CENTURY STYLE

Here is a question to respond to in this week’s readings. Give a 400 words response

After reading two of your primary sources, Cholera - Report of College of Physicians from 1832 and "Cholera!" issued by the New York [city] Board of Health in 1865, what do you observe about their ideas of cholera and of the public responses that are required at these two points, 30 years and 3 epidemics apart?

(and/or, “what do these two sources suggest about the likelihood of policy change and effectiveness in 1865-66?”)