[Nov3]

New York City is one of our vulnerable points. Subways, slums, crowded working places, crowded sidewalks, elevators . . . . . . .

A disease that spreads withe the ease of a common cold would have a heyday there.

[jerseygirl]

I agree. Toronto, in contrast, though crowded is quite clean compared to NYC...

[_Jim]

New York City is one of our vulnerable points. Subways, slums, crowded working places, crowded sidewalks, elevators . . . .

Humans and live stock in the same block, horse carcasses littering the street, water pumped from wells polluted with human waste, flies thick as fog at certain times of the year -

- WAIT!

That was New Yawk in 1832 ...