Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health. Medical Council.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. of Room.s ill House. No. of Inmates in House. Binployineiit of Jjundlord. Ke CESS ARIES. Sumciently supplied. If in tlio Habit ,, _ of Driiikiiiff Where from Jlrona Street j| situated. Tump. Their Dosci-iption. U; two kitchens. £5 inmates of these 2 oo«upicd the back kitchen, and 1 the front. 3 initmto^ - l'ri\'ato Iftdy Clerk of pni-is)). Eating-house keeper. Commissioners' OBicgs for Paving. 11; two G inmates - Carver and kitchens. gilder. Public batlis and wash-houses. 13; one back kitchen. Empty 11; one kitchen. 15 inmates - 17 inmates - 3 inmates - 0 inmates - Blacking manufac- turer. Breeches- maker. Bricklaj-er - Publican - SuOIciently SuOlcicntly - Sumciently - SulDcioutly - Sufficiently In covered buUs in back yard and stairs. In a composite ris- toni in hack cellar. In covered stono cistern hi hauk wash-houso. On leads, in a co- vered lead cis- tern. In a covered stone cistern in ba<'k yard. In a brick cistem at the bottom of the kitchen stairs. One in a covcnil stone cistern, in the back kitchen, and anotlier in a butt in the back yard. In a tank in tlic ! back yard. | One in si covered slato cistern in back yard, and another in abutt in the back kitcheu. In covered butts; one in back yard and one in back kitchen. In back yard in a covered butt. A patient drank from Broad Street ])unip. I In front eel- laa'. All that died di-ank from BroadStrcet pump. All di-ank from Broad Street pump. In hack kitchen in a covered butt. In a lead cistern in back yard. In covered stone and lead cisterns in back yard. Drank from Iiroad Street pump. Below first Uoov stfui-s. In backyard In back yard In back yard In back yard In backyard In back yard On the pas- sago lloor. In back yard Pan, water laid on Pan supplied by a waste pipe. \ pan supplied by i waste pan. Pan cleansed by flushing. ■\Vliether Drain from them passes under the House. The pan cleansed by flushing. Pan cleansed flushing. Pan, M'aterlaid on ■ Privy supplied by a waste pipe. Pan supplied by a waste pipe. Pan suppHodbv waste pipe. Drain passes under the house. Drains pass imder the house. Drain passes through the house. Drain passes under the house. Drain passes under the house. Drains pass imder house. Drains pass under house. Ventila- tion. Good Good Good Good Good Where situated. How often emptied. If offensive before the Outbreak of Cholera. t?i back ocl- lai-. back wash liouso. They have no dust, all beinp; con- sumed. :i hack yard 11 back jard I n back yard n back yard n back yard II backyard n back kit- chen. n back ccl- Uir. Frequently Frequently Frequently ■ Frequently ■ Frequently ■ Not offensive Not offensive Not offensive Not offensive Frequently - Not offensive Frequently ■ Frequently • Frequently - Frequently - Frequently - Frequently - Frequently - Not offensive Not offensive Jfot offensive Not offensive GEXERAi State of Buildings. General State of Premises, Complaints of External Nuisances, Gully Holes, &c. AVlicther Smells worse during the Nijjht, or before Opening the House or Shop in the Morning. Good. Good Good Good Complains of smells from next door, No. 8. Publican complains of a urinal round the corner. CnoLERA Cases. AVhat Part of the House. 3rd floor front 2 in small house inyard. and one in 1st floor back. 2nd floor front 111 the kitchen Occupation. How many sleeping in the Koom b^'orc the Attack. Aft&r the Death. A picture frame- maker's wife, a httle boy, and the mother of the former,who came to nurse her. A pawnbroker, female, and housekeeper. Tailor, his two children, and another child. A breechcs-makcr Only the two boj's. Four slept in the room. Three in one room, and five in ariothor. Tvro died; one recovered. AH three died Five slept in the room whilst the child was lying dead. Tlio peraon (lied in Broad Street. DiAnnufEA, General Rejlvrks. Structural Pceuliaritics of the Street regards Ventilation, whether C are more numerous opposite Gully Gratings, &c, Meases, all fro fnaht. A painter in 3rd floor back room, All recovered. 2 cases on the 1st floor. A bricklayer. Itecovorcd Recovered. Four persons are said to have ditd in this house. The patient that suffered from cho batned M'hilst heated.