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Report of the Board of Health, 1849

Report of the Board of Health, 1849
Levi D. Boone, Health Officer and Physician for Chicago, reported in the August 27, 1849 issue of the Chicago Journal, on his work with indigent cholera patients and those taken to the Cholera Hospital. Over half the indigent patients were Norwegians, most of whom lived in dense squatter settlements along the Chicago River.