| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1831/09/06 | New York City's Board of Health request David Hosack and two other doctors to collect with all possible speed, all information which can be obtained from Europe or Asia or elsewhere on the subject of the Oriental Cholera. | |
| 1832/06/00 | The Sisters of Charity perform heroic service caring for cholera victims. Many of them will from the disease. | Old St Patrick's Cathedral, New York City |
| 1832/06/00 | As cholera arrives in NYC, "The roads, in all directions, were lined with well-filled stagecoaches, livery coaches, private vehicles and equestrians, all panic-struck, fleeing the city," The New York Evening Post | |
| 1832/06/00 | Advertised treatments for Cholera include laudanum, calomel as a binding laxative, camphor as an anesthetic, poultices of mustard, cayenne pepper and hot vinegar are also applied, as well as opium suppositories and tobacco enemas. - NY Times | |
| 1832/07/00 | The Cholera epidemic kills 3,515 dead out of a population of 250,000 in New York City. The disease is particularity fierce in the slum areas, such as Five Points, where Blacks and Irish Catholics live. | Mulberry Bend, Five Points NYC, New York City |
| 1832/07/00 | A fearful crowd gathered in City Hall Park are told that the cholera epidemic, caused by miasma, a highly unpleasant or unhealthy vapor, has reached its peak. | New York City Hall, New York City |
| 1834/00/00 | Dr Marsden's treatise on cholera, "Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea, better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera", is published. |
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