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£14.99
In 1832 the heavy industrial areas of Staffordshire and Worcestershire known as the Black Country fell to a Cholera pandemic
which infected and killed thousands of men, women and children within a few weeks.
This book details Cholera's impact upon the area, containing first-hand witness accounts from victims, medics, and church
men and women, detailing the attempts to control and treat the disease in a time before scientific understanding.
The social and living conditions which facilitated its spread are examined and, also, how the neighbouring city of Birmingham
coped during the pandemic.
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