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TANNER, Henry Schenck (1786 – 1858)

TANNER, Henry Schenck (1786 – 1858)

1786 – 1858

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1832 CE

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A geographical and statistical account of the epidemic cholera: From its commencement in India to its entrance into the United States: Comprehended in a series of maps and tables, exhibiting the names of places visited by the pestilence, the time of its commencement, the number of cases, and deaths, and duration, at each place: Compiled from a great variety of printed and manuscript documents.

TANNER, Henry Schenck (1786 – 1858)
TANNER, Henry Schenck (1786 – 1858)

Tanner, a prolific cartographer, wished to provide a geographic account of the spread of the worldwide cholera epidemic of 1817. Statistics concerning the epidemic, he complained, were "given in such a loose and uncon…