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Last wave of cholera epidemic.

1910-1911

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The last cholera outbreak in the United States takes place from 1910-1911, when the steamship Moltke brings infected people from Naples to New York City. Eleven people die, including a health care worker at the hospital.

The outbreak contributes to anti-Italian sentiment (tied with anti-Catholicism), which will lead to a 1920 immigration quota on (Southern) Italians entering the U.S.