My daughters' great aunt had diphtheria in the 1920s and is still around to tell the tale!
She will be 99 in September and is determined to make her century and beat her older sister who only made it to a measly 98!
There are maps of Coventry in the nineteenth century plotting the cholera outbreaks. I'm not sure how you would pick them up from GRO indexes, but you might get lucky with parish registers more detailed than usual.
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"Keep your dreams as clean as silver"
John Stewart 1939 - 2008
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