Quote:
|
.and in the Warkworth district, 16 children (a third of the total number of deaths) died of scarlatina at Radcliffe Terrace (a colliery locality) and Hauxley, where "the water is impure and there is a great want of drainage."........"
|
Difficult to get to the truth on this one isn't it? We now have more that a doubling of fatalities (or are they referring to the whole district?) and a different disease again.