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Originally Posted by Digvul
This is all good stuff Coquet. What is the evidence to suggest that the 1864 outbreak was cholera and not, for example, scarlet fever which was a killer disease at that time?
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Nothing definite to say it was Cholera, it's just one of the likely contenders. Possibly: Scarlet Fever, Typus, Typhoid, or Influenza. All we have in the description of the 1874 report (referring back to 1864) is the word "fever". From
this article Cholera was referred to as "fever", but then so were the rest.
I noted at the woodhorn archives that some entries in the Warkworth burial registers have cause of death recorded; It's possible the registers have a reference to the Radcliffe epidemic, but with our luck probably not!
On that subject do we know where the victims were buried? Can't see any reference in the inscriptions at
Warkworth beach road cemetery?
Generally in reference to the Radcliffe dead I've often thought we have a shortage of burials [or monumental inscriptions] for the Radcliffe folk up to the opening of the Amble east cemetery. The Radcliffe population was larger than Warkworth, and not that much smaller than Amble during this time. Janwin, have you got any transcriptions of burial registers for that period? Where are they all? In Warkworth, just no headstones?