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Chamber Pots & Handkerchiefs: Illness in a 19th Century Tenement

Join us on Youtube Live to explore how people in lower Manhattan experienced illness, disease, and death during the 19th century. This virtual visit, adapted from our popular Life and Death building tour, will trace the changing ways outbreaks of cholera and endemic tuberculosis were understood and treated. We’ll be discussing how tenements, working class neighborhoods, and immigrant living informed the emerging municipal responses to public health, and the impact of those legacies today in contemporary reactions to Covid-19.











When: Thu., Aug. 27, 2020 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St.
212-982-8420
Price: By donation
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Join us on Youtube Live to explore how people in lower Manhattan experienced illness, disease, and death during the 19th century. This virtual visit, adapted from our popular Life and Death building tour, will trace the changing ways outbreaks of cholera and endemic tuberculosis were understood and treated. We’ll be discussing how tenements, working class neighborhoods, and immigrant living informed the emerging municipal responses to public health, and the impact of those legacies today in contemporary reactions to Covid-19.

Buy tickets/get more info now