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 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

Hi Heather, It has been posted before http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/eng-dur-sunderland/2008-08/1218117462 Stan Mapstone