cholera when did it first arrive in britain
By 1831 cholera had arrived in Hamburg, and the first case in England was reported in October 1831 in Sunderland. The first case in East London was on 12 February, 1832.For all the fear attached to this new disease, only about 800 persons died of cholera in the East End.n the summer of 1831, after news had reached England that a cholera epidemic had arrived in the Baltic ports, Charles Greville said in his Memoirs [ chapter 15 ].