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Deaths in Somerset 1891 - 1901
« on: Saturday 19 January 08 22:13 GMT (UK) »
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Does anyone know if there was any significant disease or illness where a lot of people died during 1891 and 1901.  I seem to have a lost quite a lot of relatives in Barrow Gurney around that time of all ages.

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Re: Deaths in Somerset 1891 - 1901
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 20 January 08 08:24 GMT (UK) »
As you probably know whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis were endemic in Victorian times, also infant mortality was very high.

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« Reply #2 on: Monday 21 January 08 17:37 GMT (UK) »
I lost quite a few relatives to various illnesses during that time, but it seems to be significantly higher for the branch in Barrow Gurney in Somerset.  I wondered if there was a large local epidemic.
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