History of Milwaukee, city and county . THE COLUMBIA HOSPITAL. THE MILWAUKEE BOSPITAL CHAPTER XXXTHE .MILWAUKEE HEALTH DEPARTMENT The first board of health was created soon after the incorporation of theCity of Milwaukee by an ordinance passed in August, 1846, and was madeup of the mayor and five physicians. The frequent visitations of choleraamong the towns of the Mississippi River and places in communication withthem operated as a warning to every city advancing in trade and popula-tion to protect themselves by suitable regulations. It will be rememberedthat Chicago suffered severely from a
History of Milwaukee, city and county . THE COLUMBIA HOSPITAL. THE MILWAUKEE BOSPITAL CHAPTER XXXTHE .MILWAUKEE HEALTH DEPARTMENT The first board of health was created soon after the incorporation of theCity of Milwaukee by an ordinance passed in August, 1846, and was madeup of the mayor and five physicians. The frequent visitations of choleraamong the towns of the Mississippi River and places in communication withthem operated as a warning to every city advancing in trade and popula-tion to protect themselves by suitable regulations. It will be rememberedthat Chicago suffered severely from a visitation of cholera in 1832, duringthe progress of the Black Hawk war. In that year the cholera broke outamong United States troops brought there by Gen. Winfield Scott, and re-sulted in a mortality of eighty-eight soldiers. It was a wise provision of thenew City of Milwaukee to create a board of health to prevent its possiblelodgement among its inhabitants. In apprehension of an outbreak of Asiatic cholera the City of Milwaukeecreated a second board of he
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