Another interesting snippet relating to the year 1864 comes in a report of the Registrar General's returns for the last quarter of the year, in the Newcastle Chronicle.
"The district registrars, in their notes of the closing quarter of 1864 (a quarter marked by excessive mortality), have frequent occasion to report the prevalence of fever in its various forms, and also of smallpox......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."........"
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