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To multitudes it has proven the valley of the shadow of death.вЂќ and the awful pictures of the tent town or encamping ground at Happy Valley are horrifying in the extreme. In 1850 a Sydney newspaper, the PeopleвЂ™s Advocate, editorialized, вЂњThe fever and ague, diarrhea and dysentery had made dreadful havoc. One of the argonauts who met this fate was a young Australian named Francis Forbes.ДЇorbes was no anonymous Forty-Niner - he was the son of the chief justice back home in Sydney, and his death made Happy ValleyвЂ™s wave of disease an international story.ДЄccording to Albert Shumate in вЂњRincon Hill and South Park,вЂќ after Forbes died, several Australian newspapers tried to slow the exodus from their country to California by publishing dark accounts of conditions there. Making health conditions worse, many of the dead were buried right in Happy Valley, sometimes next to their tents. вЂњIt is dreadful to think of him coming out here to suffer so much, and to die at last,вЂќ McCrackan wrote his family. When he finally found the sick man, he had him moved to a hospital, but he died the next day. In May 1850, a Forty-Niner named John McCrackan spent three hours wandering through Happy Valley searching for the tent of a family friend, an older man who was suffering from dysentery.

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Read hundreds of historical stories, see thousands of archive photos and sort through 153 years of classic Chronicle front pages at /vault. Like what you're reading? Subscribe to the Chronicle Vault newsletter and get classic archive stories in your inbox twice a week. In October, an English traveler named Edward Lucatt wrote, вЂњWe made a descent into a sandy hollow, bordering the sea, where much wretchedness and sickness were found under canvas tents, but which has received in mockery the name вЂhappy valley.вЂ™ вЂќ Poor fellows, many of them must die from the melonekolly fact of having no one to do or take the least interest in them.вЂќ Hundreds of tents in and about it with vast numbers of sick lying in them on the ground and about them in all directions. This name is a great вЂmisnomerвЂ™ by the way, for (a) more squalid unhealthy place I never saw. An anonymous Forty-Niner wrote that month, вЂњVisited Happy Valley. Happy Valley was already suffering the ravages of dysentery when Kent arrived that September of 1849. The result was dysentery, a potentially deadly form of gastroenteritis characterized by bloody diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain and dehydration. There were one or two small springs in the vicinity, but many of the Forty-Niners who camped in Happy Valley drank water from what a physician described as вЂњbrackish little seep holes two to three feet deep.вЂќД«ecause latrines in the sandy campground were primitive at best, water in these shallow holes soon became contaminated by human waste. The culprit: dysentery, caused by bad water. By fall 1849, Happy Valley had become the instant cityвЂ™s first disease hot spot. But this Burning Man-like paradise quickly turned into a hell. Happy Valley, where not just tents but hogsheads, dry goods boxes, a covered wagon and even beached ships were used as dwellings, may have been playful and carefree at first.