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| Picture No | 10216764 |
| Date | 1884 |
| Description | The Cholera epidemic in France |
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Passengers from Toulon and Marseilles being fumigated at the Paris station of the Lyons and Mediterranean railway. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease. In the nineteenth century, cholera spread from Northeast India towards the east coast of Africa. It only took a couple of years for the disease to reach Europe.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News, 12 July 1884 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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