Hi Newfloridian, If you Google typhus Lincolnshire 1840-1842 you'll find some stats from Parliamentary Papers (1840)and the Register Office.(1842) It doesn't seem to have been a particularly bad year. Typhus was pretty well endemic in the 19th century. Fran
Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 19 (1840)
Annual Report of the Registrar-General for England and Wales, Volumes 6-7 (1842)