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Epidemics

Rector's Gill provided an overspill burial ground in Bishopwearmouth. The churchyard was full, as was the unhealthy cholera cemetery behind a school off Hind Street.

Sunderland was notorious for the outbreak  of Asiatic cholera which arrived in 1831-2, killing 215 local people and spreading across the nation.

Content generated during research for two paperback books 'Sunderland and its Origins: Monks to Mariners' (ISBN 13 : 9781860774799) and 'Sunderland: Building a City' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-547-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series

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