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Title: 1837 Diseases in Redruth area
Post by: hivebiz65 on Friday 07 March 25 03:09 GMT (UK)

I have a number of ancestors who passed at fairly young ages in 1837.  They were not miners.  What kind of disease was going around that year?

Title: Re: 1837 Diseases in Redruth area
Post by: mckha489 on Friday 07 March 25 03:32 GMT (UK)

People died of lots of things compared to today, but there was apparently an influenza epidemic


https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/33fd9c54-4062-4173-844e-58dd5421853f Part 1

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/1a25f4c7-b7d3-4720-ac8b-a495f843da36 Part2

Various death notices say “of the prevailing epidemic”

If they died in the last quarter of 1837 you can get their death certs (Jpeg for £3)
There might be a death notice that gives cause of death.
Occasionally the burial record gives cause.