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NO TOWNSHIP TOUCH ON ANY CARRIER; THE NOTRE DAME RECORD IN CONFLICT WHOLE
No carrier reached prints cholera in Liberty Township or North Liberty — and the disease's county record, at Notre Dame, cannot settle what the disease was. The county's cholera seat was Notre Dame, and its record prints whole here at pointer size, as the county's, in South Bend's file class (C122). The later histories call it cholera: the Reverend Arthur J. Hope's Notre Dame — One Hundred Years (1942) carries "an exhausting epidemic of malarial fever and cholera" oppressing the university from 1847 to 1855, with five Brothers and three postulants dead in 1854 and sisters dying at Bertrand. The contemporary identification differs: John Theodore Wack's Notre Dame: Foundations (University of Notre Dame Archives) notes that Sorin, writing a few months after the 1854 epidemic, "identified the disease as typhoid fever plus dysentery, and this is probably a correct identification" — the cholera identification coming from the later jubilee histories — and Sorin's own Chronicles head the chapter "Year 1854 — The Epidemic. Twenty-two Deaths," describing "a combination of diarrhea and typhoid fever." The counts print unmerged, because they count three different sets: Hope's five Brothers and three postulants at Notre Dame proper; Sorin's letter's eighteen members dead, "including three students in the college"; and Sorin's twenty-two, which Wack notes folds in deaths from other causes. Cholera proper did touch the campus in the period's own records — two students dead of cholera in 1853 while home on vacation, and obituary entries from the fall of 1847 — at Wack's strength. The township verdict stands apart from the conflict and is not affected by it: no cholera year is printable for Liberty Township on any carrier reached; the settler for any stronger claim (township death and burial records; the town cemetery's 1840s stones) stands in the note.
Hope, Notre Dame — One Hundred Years (1942), ch. VI (Notre Dame news-service excerpt); Wack, Notre Dame: Foundations, 1842–1857, notes to ch. VI (archives.nd.edu); Sorin, Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac (Toohey translation), ch. XIII; Sorin's letter to Moreau (Brother Aidan's Extracts, ND Archives).