Jimmy Akins Mysterious World

The number of people who got sick and died is way beyond random chance for what ou expect for this group of hotel guests. The first theory that suggested itself to people at the time was that it was poison, specifically a mineralogical poison that was likely arsenic. But there were a number of groups that were proposed, including southerners, northerners, african americans and our old friends the jesuits,. It was argued that this disease was caused by miasmatic vapors. So we need to consider that and what modern science would have to say.