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Historical Moments

• In 1892, another cholera outbreak threatened New York City. A new preventative health department scrubbed the homes of cholera patients, treated or burned their clothes and bedding, and disinfected 39,000 tenements. When the epidemic eased, only nine had died in Manhattan. The triumph began an era of municipal leadership in preventative medicine, including the first real efforts to protect the quality of urban air and water. See http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_env_hist.shtml#Cholera
• In 1969, twelve women met during a women’s liberation conference in a workshop on "women and their bodies." Soon thereafter, they formed the Boston Women's Health Book Collective and In 1970 published a booklet entitled "Women and Their Bodies" which became an underground success. In 1973 they expanded and re-published it as "Our Bodies, Ourselves," which became a national bestseller and gave a major boost to the women's health movement. See http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/

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