On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Steve Martonak wrote: > >> epidemics through Slovakian towns? > > Going through the parish register of Dubovica, Saris County, there > were a couple of pages worth of cholera deaths in 1873. What > particularly struck me was that they were mostly adults. Male or female? I wonder if there was a military connection. I now find another one of these epidemics in the Orava Region in 1872. Like the one I was looking at for the year 1955, it was just as Will had recently described, a sudden onslaught the very first day of August in the middle of summer heat, tapering off the last few weeks of August, and disappearing with the November frost. Margaret Sheremata