Cottage scenes during the cholera : $b being extracts from a diary written in July and August, 1832Coppard, William Isaac
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Cottage scenes during the cholera : $b being extracts from a diary written in July and August, 1832
Coppard, William Isaac
Cholera -- Great Britain; Coppard, William Isaac, -1865 -- Diaries
“An adjourned meeting of the parishioners was held on this day, at
the Plymouth Inn, Ridgeway; present, George Strode, Esq., William
Langmead, Esq., George William Soltau, Esq., B. Crocker, Esq., Mr. J.
Yolland, Mr. William Delville, Mr. Worth, Mr. Willing, Mr. Joseph
Pearse, Mr. Brewer. Resolved, That a Board of Health having been
regularly appointed in the parish, under the authority of the Lords
of H.M. most honourable Privy Council, in compliance with the
proposition of the Board, the sum of twenty pounds be paid to the
order of the chairman of the said Board, for the purpose of meeting
the present expenses of the Board.”
WILLIAM I. COPPARD, Chairman.
{85a} The clergyman of Plympton St. Maurice, having sickness in his
family, requested me to visit some of his parishioners whenever I had an
opportunity.
{85b} Mr. Deeble Boger was present in several of the worst cases of
cholera, in the town of Plympton; and his benevolent and active exertions
contributed materially to mitigate the sufferings of the afflicted
people.
{96} Susan Taylor subsequently married an honest and industrious
labourer. They have five young children, and are living at Underwood at
the present time.
{103} Represented on the left hand of the foreground, in the woodcut.
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