Fascinating Stuff Digvul. I've been reading up and 1864 was the year that germs and bacteria were first considered to be the cause of disease, so the same year as the Radcliffe outbreak. There are two other possibles for this fever - Scarlet or Typhoid, but reading in the papers they seemed to be able to contain these more effectively than Cholera, so perhaps this is Cholera.
Harrison appears to have been ordered by a magistrate to install privies and drainage in the late 1860s. There is an article from 1870 describing the situation in Radcliffe then, it's still horrific! I'll type it out.
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