Report on the cholera outbreak in the parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854 / presented to the Vestry by the Cholera Inquiry Committee.

  • Saint James (Westminster, London, England : Parish). Cholera Inquiry Committee.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Report on the cholera outbreak in the parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854 / presented to the Vestry by the Cholera Inquiry Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    example, one side of a street would suffer more than the other. In streets running north and south, the dwelling-houses being about equal on the two sides, the east side sometimes suffered most; in streets running east and west, the south side was generally most affected. Cambridge Street and Little Windmill Street are exceptions to the former, and Silver Street to the latter statement. The order in which houses were attacked followed no definite rule. Some narrow streets and courts suffered severely ; others nearly or quite escaped, as Tyler’s, Great Crown and Walker’s Courts; whilst wide streets, as Broad Street itself, were heavily visited. In St. Anne’s Court, the middle houses suffered most; in some cids de sac, as Bentinck Street and Peter Street, those near the dead end. The south-eastern half of the Cholera area is a few feet lower than the north-western half; but the mortality was not attached to any particular level. A want of cleanliness in streets or houses was by no means a constant accompaniment of the disease. Some houses in the midst of others affected escaped, without any favourable sanitary condition. The map shews that, of houses in the Cholera area directly opposite untrapped sewer-grates* 40-2 per cent, had fatal attacks in them, thus barely exceeding the general percentage throughout the area, viz., 38-8. Of two adjacent and equally well ordered factories, one lost seven workmen, the other none. Of nearly 200 workmen and women employed in another large factory, none living in the neighbourhood, the