On October 11, 1832, the Hudson Telegraph and Observer reported these cholera deaths in Cleveland. The paper published a number of articles that year keeping its readers up to date on the toll the disease was taking among the populations of a number of Eastern and Midwestern cities. The epidemic, which claimed 50 lives in Cleveland in just several months, led to the creation of City Hospital in 1837. It is an interesting side note on the Ohio-Erie Canal, which had just recently opened, that people came to learn in this year that not only goods,but also disease, could travel along the canal to the state's interior lands.
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