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Apartments in urban tenements were
feared as the primary source of a deadly cholera
outbreak
cheap, but well-kept, temporary residences for recent
immigrants.
O feared because people believed that their high
poverty rates increased crime.
commonly overcrowded, unsanitary, and unsafe for
their residents.

The constant presence of diseases or infectious agents within a given geographic area or population group. it may also refer to the usual prevalence of a given disease with such area or group. it includes holoendemic and hyperendemic diseases. a holoendemic disease is one for which a high prevalent level of infection begins early in life and affects most of the child population, leading to a state of equilibrium such that the adult population shows evidence of the disease much less commonly than do children (malaria in many communities is a holoendemic disease). a hyperendemic disease is one that is constantly present at a high incidence and/or prevalence rate and affects all groups equally. so probably family history.