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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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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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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It grows in the vicinity of Thirdpart. In the 1830s 40 locals died from cholera and were buried in a triangular plot at the base of Jamesill Hill. The...
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Toilet (section Twin pit designs)
effluent, including other sources, is sewage. Dry toilets are connected to a pit, removable container, composting chamber, or other storage and treatment...
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Siege of Mariupol (redirect from Possible 2022 Mariupol cholera outbreak)
citizens about cholera by 1 June 2022. The government of Rostov Oblast announced that Ukrainian refugees in Russia would be tested for cholera. On 17 May...
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The 1832 Sligo cholera outbreak was a severe outbreak of cholera in the port town of Sligo in northwestern Ireland. The outbreak resulted in an official...
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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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people die annually from diseases caused by contaminated water, such as cholera or dysentery. A major accomplishment of human civilization has been the...
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typical of burials of plague victims such as those who died from cholera. Many Cholera pits exist in Ayrshire, such as at Dalry, Stevenston, Monkcastle, Beith...
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Mission, which later became the Mission to Seafarers. A sanatorium for cholera patients was built in 1896 as the isolation hospital for the port of Cardiff...
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clothing. Working conditions were harsh, and diseases such as typhoid and cholera flourished due to poor sanitation and water supplies. Typically miners...
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and food. Diseases caused by fecal-oral transmission include typhoid, cholera, polio, hepatitis and many other infections, especially ones that cause...
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accounts report mass burial pits being created in response to the large number of dead, recent scientific investigations of a burial pit in Central London found...
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is a town in Costa Rica; he is buried in Kilwinning Cemetery. An old cholera pit is located in the grounds of nearby Monkcastle House, dating from the...
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24 September 2012[update], a cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone had caused the deaths of 392 people. It was the country's largest outbreak of cholera since first reported...
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use the term to refer to a pit latrine without a water seal even though the pit of a pit latrine is not usually dry. The pit can become very wet because...
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bayakou is a sanitation worker who works to empty the fecal sludge out of pit latrines in Haiti, especially in larger cities, such as Port-au-Prince. The...
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dissection Carotid bruit Cavernous hemangioma Chloromas (Myeloid sarcoma) Cholera Chronic myelogenous leukemia Coeliac disease Coronary artery disease Coronavirus...
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Baghdad Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster Human rights Humanitarian crisis 2007 cholera outbreak Financial cost Refugees Iraqi Christians Mandaeans Violence against...
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Haridwar Kumbh Mela (section 1783: Cholera epidemic)
another cholera outbreak in 1945, compulsory cholera vaccinations were ordered at the 1945 Haridwar Kumbh Mela. 1891 Kumbh Mela - dispersed due to cholera outbreak...
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sanitation provision, there were several cholera epidemics in the town in the 19th century. A dedicated cholera burial ground was later established at Cefn...
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Aleksandr I. Kuprin (section The Pit (1909))
(1861–1922) and Zinaida (1863–1934). In 1871 his father, aged 37, died of cholera. Three years later Aleksandr's mother moved, with young Aleksandr, into...
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Snow during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak demonstrated the role of the water supply in spreading the cholera epidemic. A significant development...
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