Near where I now live, in Northumberland, we have the ruins of a 'cholera village'....I pass it every time I drive out of my own village; it's now just a hundred yard, double row of grassy humps with a few bits of masonry showing here and there. Apparently, the cottages had been thatched with heather and, rather than risk further infection, they were set ablaze with the bodies of the former inhabitants still inside - every one had succumb to the cholera!
The first out-break of Asiatic Cholera reached Sunderland, in the North East. in 1831 and raged north-wards into Scotland...killing 51,000 people! In the following ten years or so, there were several more out-breaks across the whole country.