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Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), Saturday 7 November 1874, page 2

DEATH
A fatal
city, on

FROM

CHOLERA.

of English cholera occurred in this


Wednesday (says the Newcastle Pilot). It
case

appears that Mr. Matthews, of Blane-street,


of the firm of Matthews, and
as one
well known
Co.,

meat

waB, on
Monday
in the stomach.
m
until o o clock the same
Harris was
sent for, and

preservers,

after

seized with cramps

noon,
continued

very

ing, when Dr.


arrival shortly

He
even
on

his

afterwards,

found the patient


displaying all
the symptoms attendant upon an attack of Eng
lish cholera.
On
the usual remedies
being
these symptoms were
administered
subdued ;
Matthews
but Mr.
rallied from
never
the
collapse, but at 2 o'clock yeBterday he expired.
The deceased was
a strong,
who
hearty man,
known
a day's illness, and
bis age
hadjseldom
was
about fifty yeara.
Dr. Harris attributes
attack to Mr. Matthews having partaken
-c
'!*:??'??
new
potatoes at dinner on Monday,
hi* illness., which, /mbaeciuently
'??-.!-

undergoing

extreme

agony,

and

??

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