A cholera pit was a burial place used in a time of emergency when the disease was prevalent. Such mass graves were often unmarked and were placed in remote...
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Cholera (/ˈkɒlərə/) is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to...
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Cleeves Cove (section Cholera pit)
in reserve." It is said locally that a group of trees mark one of the cholera pits. A passageway within the cave system A passageway showing erosion features...
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to be on the property during a 19th-century cholera outbreak and whose bodies were buried together in a pit. Although they can go upstairs if they wish...
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Lands of Ashgrove (section Cholera pit)
the Ashenyards farmstead at the intersection of hedgerows. An unmarked Cholera pit is situated at the end of the Long Ride Plantation in an area marked...
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Spier's School (section The Spier's Cholera Pit)
buried in the parish churchyard, but others were buried in a field, in a cholera pit close to what became Spier's School, on the little common south-west...
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Barrmill, North Ayrshire (section Cholera outbreak)
youths died from cholera within a week of visiting a Gipsy encampment to have their fortunes told and were buried in a triangular Cholera pit plot at the base...
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primitive scene:- A Rye Water ford still exists to this day (2008). A Cholera pit is located in a field near the Caaf Bridge on the town side of the Caaf...
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Cholera toxin (also known as choleragen and sometimes abbreviated to CTX, Ctx or CT) is an AB5 multimeric protein complex secreted by the bacterium Vibrio...
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further thinned the population of the village as evidenced by a large cholera pit in the old village cemetery. In 1718, an inn was built and in 1719, a...
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