Hello Heather, Thank you for putting this site up again, it really doesn't hurt to repeat a site address. Although I went through the Archives when I first joined this site I may not have realized at the time that Cholera in Sunderland may have affected my family from Monkwearmouth. (still may not have) but it all adds up to knowing what our relatives had to live through. Kind regards Jan Peasnell On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:01 PM, <eng-dur-sunderland-request@rootsweb.com>wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Book - Cholera Outbreak 1831 (Heather) > 2. Re: Book - Cholera Outbreak 1831 (Stan Mapstone) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Heather <heatherachere@yahoo.co.uk> > To: eng-dur-sunderland-l@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:05:39 +0000 (GMT) > Subject: [ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND] Book - Cholera Outbreak 1831 > Sorry if this has appeared before, but I have found an online book about > the cholera outbreak in Sunderland of 1831. > > Hyperanthraxis; or, The cholera of Sunderland By William Reid Clanny > published 1832 > > > http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Sty7HAZFsugC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sunderland&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=1600&as_maxm_is=12&as_maxy_is=1920&num=20&as_brr=1&cd=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false > > It includes an account of the symptoms and treatment of a William Sproat, > aged 60 years, a keelman employed at the Pier..... He lived at the Fish > Quay, near the river. His treatment included, opium, effervescing mixture, > sago and wine, bolus of calomel (I think that is mercury based!) castor oil, > brandy and wine, a blister to the epigastrium (upper part of the stomach), > hot bricks to the feet and an enema of tincture of opium with starch. > William did not survive! > > The account then goes on to cover William Sproat junior and Margaret > Sproat, aged 10 years, Eliza Turnball, a nurse at the Infirmary, Robert > Roddenbury aged 35, Thomas Wilson a keelman aged 51. > > It also tells that the outbreak only appeared to be in certain streets and > lanes to begin, Fish Landing, Long Bank, Silver Street, High Street, > Burleigh Street, Mill Hill, Sailors Alley, Love Lane, Wood Street, Warren > Street, along with several lanes in Bishopwearmouth, the New Town, Ayre's > Quay, and Monkwearmouth several lanes by the river. > > I'm just under half way through it and find it a fascinating, informative > read. > > Best regards > Heather Carbis > > > > Online Parish Clerk for Morvah Cornwall > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~morvah<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Emorvah> > and Padstow (web site pending) > > Visit my Family Tree's at > GOODWIN and GORDON http://heatherac.tribalpages.com > CARBIS SPARROW ATTWOOLL http://carbissparrow.tribalpages.com > JOLLIFFE MOULAND http://jolliffemouland.tribalpages.com > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@aol.com> > To: eng-dur-sunderland-l@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:27:13 -0500 > Subject: Re: [ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND] Book - Cholera Outbreak 1831 > > > Hi Heather, > It has been posted before > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/eng-dur-sunderland/2008-08/1218117462 > > > > Stan Mapstone > > > > > > > > > > To contact the ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND list administrator, send an email to > ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND mailing list, send an email to > ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > >