Recovery from the Cholera Epidemic
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
During 1834 there was an outbreak of cholera. The fever had come to nearby towns earlier, and the town council devised absurd quarantine regulations, but these proved useless. By June, fifty people were dying every day and a third of the population had fled into the country, where they were safe from attack. The bodies were taken away in covered carts to the cemetery and buried in a common grave without any pretence of ...Recovery from the Cholera Epidemic