On: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

[prox]

I found a newspaper message from the 19th century that described a flu that gave pneumonia and undertakers hadn’t seen anything like it since the Cholera epidemics, this article was from Spain around 1840’s.

[ekianjo → prox]

do you have a copy?

[prox → ekianjo]

I have, but it is old Dutch. Don’t know if that is of help... I am still going through the archives for older mentions.

[gbrits → prox]

Facinating. There's a lot of Dutch people here. Some might want to translate

[prox → gbrits]

The article states under the header “news from Spain” : “In the last days a terrible [amount of] dying has transpired that the gravediggers state that they have no recollection [of such a thing] since the Cholera. Most people die of lung and chest complications that follow from the flu.” 27-01-1848

[vincentmarle → gbrits]

Old Dutch is actually a lot like Old English, they’re both sister languages. Supposedly speakers of those languages were able to (mostly) understand each other, similarly to a dialect.

[ori_b → vincentmarle]

Old English is not similar enough to English for English speakers to understand, so this isn't particularly helpful.

https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/orosius.html

https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/chron.html

[jdminhbg → vincentmarle]

That's Old in the sense of the first millennium AD. This is "old" in the sense of two hundred years ago. Very different.

[tough → prox]

Can you provide specific dates to try and find something in Spanish?

[narag → tough]

Wikipedia says there were three outbreaks 1833 and 1834, then in 1855:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemias_de_c%C3%B3lera_en_Es...

Edit: it seems I misunderstood. The original comment didn't talk about cholera, but used it as a comparison.

[prox → narag]

True, it was under the header “news from Spain” , I added a translation.

[prox → ekianjo]

I added a translation in this thread.