SMALLPOX IN STAMFORD IN 1822

By Chris Hunt

The small-pox rages dreadfully in Stamford at this time, and has done for several weeks. Three children of a person named Graves, a wheelwright on Peter-hill, all of whom have perished of the disease, will be buried in one grave, and another child of the same family is dangerously ill of it.

A person named Close, in St. George’s-street, lost two children last week; and in many other families the greatest alarm prevails.

Source

Town Talk (a London paper). Sunday April 28th 1822 p7/c1

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