Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.

Date:
1855
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Credit: Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rection has been made for the deaths from cholera in the workhouses, which in certain districts were used as cholera hospitals. {See Second Series, Tables III., IV., VI.; Third Series, Table I.) The districts, arranged in the order of the rate of mor- tality from cholera, display a regular series of numbers expressive of that rate, ranging from 6, 10, and 11 at one extreme, to 142, l65, and 179 at the other extreme; so each myriad of the people in the different localities of this great city suffered differently, and the observations present us with these enormous disparities in the sufferings of the thirty-six large congregated masses. The range m the rate of mortality by diarrhoea is much less considerable; it extends from 11, 12, 17, in some districts, to 39, 53, and 54, in a myriad inhabitants, in other districts. (iv.) Influence of Density of Population. The population of London stands on 78,029 acres of ground, so that in 1851 there were on an average 30 per- sons to an acre. In Lewisham there were 2 persons, m Wandsworth 4, and in Hampstead 5 persons to an acre; the raortahty to 10,000 from cholera in these districts was at the rate of 22, 85, and 12 in 1853-4; and 30, 100, and 8 in 1849 in these open districts. In the three densest districts there were 246, 256, and 290 persons to an acre; the mortahty from cholera was at the rate ot 10 m St. Luke, of 22 in the Strand, and of 23 m the East London City district, in 1853-4; of 34, 35, and 45 m the same districts in 1849- The mean mortality by cholei a is in the two epidemics, at the rate of 43 m the three most open districts, 28 in the three most dense districts _ ^Again, in the nine districts of Lewisham, Wandswoith, Hampstead, Camberwell, Hackney, Kensington, Poplar Greenwich, and Rotherhithe, the mean density ot the population ranges from 2 to 21 persons on an acre; tne mean mortality in the two epidemics was at the rate ot 65 by cholera, by diarrhoea 22, in 10,000. And in the nine densest districts,Whitechapel, St. Caeorge in the East, the West London City, St Giles, St. James, Holborn. St. Luke, the Strand, and the East London City, whte there were on an average from 196 to 290 persons on an acre, the mean mortality in the two epidemics was, by cholera 41, by diarrhoea 19, m 10,000.