Cholera in the 19th Century

Asiatic cholera is a deadly disease it is believed that it's carried by a micro organism called cholera morbus. This disease attacked Cardiff during the 19th century cholera started because of a problem with the water system in many areas in Cardiff. This deadly disease killed a lot of people. The question for this coursework is to see whether or not people were right to blame the Irish for the cholera epidemic in Cardiff. Below …

…wouldn't be a candidate for the spread of the disease and therefore I think that the Irish were not to blame. The Irish were just living in the wrong houses at the wrong time and so were seen as the spread of this deadly disease. Somehow the drinking water must have mixed with infected human waste. And as they were treated as 2nd class citizens they wee then treated as filth and were hugely underestimated.