CHOLERA SCOURGE RECALLED.
The startling discovery was made of a burial pit for cholera victims at Blyiih, Northumberland, in the course of excavation* for a new thoroughfare. Many coffins were unearthed, .and inquiry of the authorities led to-the discovery that here was interred the victims of the cholera in tUie visitations of 1832 and 1848. There- were altogether close upon a. hundred deaths through cholera at Blytfli in tihese years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10270, 23 June 1911, Page 5
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70CHOLERA SCOURGE RECALLED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10270, 23 June 1911, Page 5
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