Tour Scotland Photograph Cholera Memorial Dumfries

Tour Scotland photograph of the Cholera Memorial in the cemetery in Dumfries, Scotland. In memory of the 420 inhabitants of Dumfries who were suddenly swept away by the memorable invasion of Asiatic Cholera in 1832. An early 19th century incidence of asiatic cholera in Europe was recorded in Russia and other continental countries in the spring of 1831. The first occurrence in England was in the Autumn of 1831 when it reached Sunderland, by 1832 it was at Exeter, and it spread rapidly through the British Isles, reaching Kilmarnock in July 1832. Other less severe outbreaks were recorded in 1849 and 1853.[7] In the USA Outbreaks of cholera took place in 1834, 1849, and 1861.



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