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do you have a copy?


I have, but it is old Dutch. Don’t know if that is of help... I am still going through the archives for older mentions.


Facinating. There's a lot of Dutch people here. Some might want to translate


The article states under the header “news from Spain” : “In the last days a terrible [amount of] dying has transpired that the gravediggers state that they have no recollection [of such a thing] since the Cholera. Most people die of lung and chest complications that follow from the flu.” 27-01-1848


Old Dutch is actually a lot like Old English, they’re both sister languages. Supposedly speakers of those languages were able to (mostly) understand each other, similarly to a dialect.


Old English is not similar enough to English for English speakers to understand, so this isn't particularly helpful.

https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/orosius.html

https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/chron.html


That's Old in the sense of the first millennium AD. This is "old" in the sense of two hundred years ago. Very different.


Can you provide specific dates to try and find something in Spanish?


Wikipedia says there were three outbreaks 1833 and 1834, then in 1855:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemias_de_c%C3%B3lera_en_Es...

Edit: it seems I misunderstood. The original comment didn't talk about cholera, but used it as a comparison.


True, it was under the header “news from Spain” , I added a translation.


I added a translation in this thread.




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