"Nothing reigns here but want and disease, death and desolation." : the Black Country during the 1832 cholera pandemic / Kevin Goodman.

"In 1882 the heavy industrial areas of Staffordshire and Worcestershire known as the Black Country fell to a Cholera pandemic. It infected and killed thousands of men, women and children within a few weeks. This book details Cholera’s impact upon the area, containing first-hand witness accounts from victims, medics, and church men and women; detailing the attempts to control and treat the disease in a time before scientific understanding. The social and living conditions which facilitated its spread are examined, and how the neighbouring city of Birmingham coped during this terrible time."--Provided by publisher.