Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 07 February 1887

The Outbreak of Typhoid at Denaby Main

The typhoid outbreak in Sparrow Barracks and Clay lane, Mexborough, shows no sign of abatement sign abatement, and on Saturday night another death occurred—that of a little girl named aged 13 years.

In the  same house there is not a person free from the disease.

There are now about 50 persons down with the fever, and other deaths are expected. The typhoid spread from Sparrow Barracks, where it was first transmitted from Denaby Main, to Don View, Doncaster road, and has now gone further into Mexborough – in Quarry lane and in the east end of the Street.