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Headington Fever
This print, drawn and engraved by R.Cruickshank and published by Sherwood Jones & Co. in The English Spy (1824) is inscribed, "Tom Echo laid up with the Headington Fever or an Oxonian very near the Wall".
Does anyone know what the "Headington Fever" was? (The first cholera epidemic in Oxford was eight years later, in 1832; but in any event, Headington was normally considered a very healthy place compared to Oxford.) Was it an unpleasant disease picked up by undergraduates in the less salubrious parts of Headington? Ideas to the Webmaster, please.
Where in Quarry is this?
The above print show Headington Quarry in about 1820, and was engraved by John Whessell (born 1760). Is anyone able to identify the buildings in the picture? Do they still exist?