[Some cholera graveyards in western Norway]

The Norwegian provisional regulations from 1832 for the control of cholera included detailed directions for the burial of cholera victims. How these directions for graveyards were followed up has been studied in the context of the cholera epidemic in Western Norway in 1848-49. In Bergen an ordinary graveyard was used for burying cholera victims at the beginning of the epidemic, while all later burials took place in a graveyard for cholera victims only. 549 victims were buried here. On the island of Sotra the majority of the cholera victims were buried in three cholera graveyards, and further south in the county several small graveyards were planned or laid out. In general, the directions for cholera graveyards were followed. The cholera graveyard in Bergen was levelled over one hundred years ago, while several other cholera graveyards in Western Norway still exist as reminders of the epidemic.