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And I just want you to remember housing conditions.
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These are the fondachi in Naples that you've been reading about.
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And you can see that this is a place, if you use your imagination,
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that's a wonderful place for a cholera epidemic.
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Not only the fact of lack of sewage and wells,
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but the fact that it's really dark, and it's overcrowded, and people,
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lots of people, live in a single room,
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and that single room is used as the sickroom, the sleeping room.
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It's a place also where food supplies are stored,
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and with little opportunity to have clean hands.
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And remember that the Vibrio cholerae is spread through fecal matter.
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But the point is that in these conditions,