Just Another Crisis? Individual’s Experiences and the Role of the Local Government and Church During the 1866 Cholera Epidemic in a Small Dutch Town ... : Nur eine Krise wie die anderen? Über individuelle Erfahrungen und die Rolle der lokalen Behörden und der Kirche während der Cholera Pandemie von 1866 in einer kleinen niederländischen Stadt ...

This paper shows that the dynamics of late 19th-century cholera in a relatively small town differed from the alarming dynamics of this contagious disease in large towns and metropoles. With 1866 Woerden as case study, a town located in the heart of the Netherlands, we show that the fourth and final major cholera outbreak was framed as just another crisis, on top of other crises and soon to be replaced by other crises. The outbreak not only hit the poor but also the elites and middleclass families, most probably because most of the households relied on water supply from the same river. The need... Mehr ...