Cholera in Bilston

BILSTON.

In Memory of Mary Maria, wife of Wm Dodd, who died Decr 12th, A.D. 1847, aged 27.　
Also of their children, Louisa, who died Decr 12th, 1847, aged 9 months; and Alfred, who died Jany 3rd, A. D. 1848, aged 2 years and 9 months.
All victims to the neglect of sanitary regulation, and specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town.
And the Lord said to the angel that destroyed, it is enough, stay now thine hand.—1 Chron. xx. 17.

From: http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/politics/health/public/diseases
In 1848 Owen, together with Mr Best, a Bilston surgeon, and the Rev Fletcher of St Leonard's, were appointed to approach the London Board of Health about the state of the Bilston Brook. They alleged that 'The brook with its 'animal and vegetable matter' was foul smelling and a potential danger in the event of a recurrence of cholera'.