New York's Pigzali Panic

There's a cholera panic in 1866 and then a board of health is created. Immigrants fleeing slums mostly Irish and German lived in harlem at the time. Many raised their animals for local markets geese cows horses goats and such a profusion of hogs that the area around 125th street became known as pigzali pigzali pork opalix. The city government is putting People in places where they could get things done who are completely inept, he says.