It started with a single girl dancing solo for a couple of days, earlier than ultimately increasingly more folks turned affected. Doctors proclaimed that the sickness was attributable to overheated blood, and beneficial that the inflicted ought to proceed to shimmy and sway the fever away – musicians had been even referred to as in and a stage was arrange within the city centre to offer the ‘dancers’ extra room. Whereas the thought could seem humorous at first, most of them saved dancing until they fell unconscious, and a few died from exhaustion, coronary heart assault, or stroke.
