1853 Stockholm cholera outbreak
Mid-19th century cholera outbreak in Stockholm, Sweden in which 3,000 people died / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1853 Stockholm cholera outbreak was a severe outbreak of cholera which occurred in Stockholm, Sweden in 1853 as part of the third cholera pandemic. It killed about 3,000 people.
It was the second cholera epidemic in Stockholm, and the first one since the 1834 Stockholm cholera outbreak, which had been the first in the city. The epidemics of 1834 and 1853 were also the biggest cholera outbreaks in Stockholm, as both of them resulted in about 3.000 deaths.[citation needed]