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====Pandemics==== In 1832, a [[cholera]] epidemic in Saint John, New Brunswick, (part of the [[Second cholera pandemic]]) sent as many as eight hundred poor Irish immigrants walking to Bangor. This was the beginning of Maine's first substantial Irish-Catholic community. Competition with Americans for jobs caused a riot and resulting fire in 1833.<ref name="Mundy" /> In 1849β50, the [[Second cholera pandemic]] reached Bangor itself, killing 20β30 within the first week,<ref>Austin Jacobs, ''A History and Description of New England'' (Boston, 1859), p. 46; see letter of Samuel Gilman to his wife, September 2, 1849, on-line at [http://www.mainememory.net/media/pdf/9531.pdf Maine Memory Network]</ref> 112 had died by October 1849.<ref>The Public Ledger (Newfoundland), October 2, 1849, p. 2</ref> The final death toll was 161. A late outbreak of the disease in 1854 killed seventeen others. The victims in most cases were poor Irish immigrants.<ref>Williams, Chase, and Co., ''History of Penobscot County, Maine'' (1882), p. 714</ref> In 1872, a [[smallpox]] epidemic closed local schools. The [[Spanish flu]] pandemic of 1918, which was global in scope, struck over a thousand Bangoreans and killed more than a hundred. This was the worst 'natural disaster' in the city's history since the cholera epidemic of 1849.
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