Epidemic in Campbeltown 1848?

[Iain...]

I add this because the above was word-limited...
With many of my timelines, I try, when possible, to add aspects relative to national events, environment or even period costumes..., in order to get a better perception of the life and times of the person being researched.   However, the following (above) was to upset my 'frilly vision' of summer hats, long dresses and trimmings that go towards a 'clean-living' society and a healthy environment... 1853    Little did I know !   

Note:  Longrow, Campbeltown :   I distinctly remember my Granny Black (father; Robert MacFarlane McArthur and living at Dalaruan as a butcher) preciously separating household waste.   Not for ecological reasons as we do today, but in order to give it all to the man climbing the stairs with a 'swill-bin' over his shoulder to feed the familys' pigs behind the Low Askomil Road..., where Robert's father had built a house.

[fifer1947]

This may help  http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html

[marcie dean]

there is a magazine which used to have a link on here which had a lot of information  about an epidemic and they placed all the bodies in the local church and burned it to the ground they had been using it as a hospital but to many to care for and mostly wives and children no time registered deaths nor dig  graves no time for that they just wanted to stop it from spreading any more. so they cleansed the town this way
cant remember the author though historian etc. florry Campbell who went to America caught in a battle and brought back to Scotland by a relly angus a captain of his own fishing trawlwer fetched them all back.
Marjorie . I know I will kick myself the moment that someone comes up with the name because its logged in my memory somewhere Campbell and mcdonalds etc.