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 July 1855.

  • Westminster. Parish of St. James. Cholera Inquiry Committee.
Date:
1855
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 July 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

    24/192 (page 22)
    St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, St. Anne's Soho, and All-Souls Marylebone, were attacked before, and St. George's Hanover Square after, St. James's. Referring now to the Table, it will be seen that sliortly after the first case already spoken of as hap- pening on July 26th in the south of the parish, viz. in St. James's Market, two fatal attacks oc- curred in the west and centre, viz. in South Row on the 3rd August, and in Silver Street on the 5th. By the time these three attacks had occurred many more deaths had been recorded in the various dis- tricts of the metropolis, as follows:—south districts 371, east 108, west 33, north 23, and central 27. The fourth fatal seizure in St. James's was on the 7th, in the south, in Great Windmill Street; the fifth and sixth, both on the 11th, were in the west, viz. in King Street and Marlborough Row. On the follow- ing day, three persons were fatally attacked, two in the south and south-east of the parish, viz. in Pic- cadilly and Great Windmill Street, and one in the very centre of the district to be presently rendered so memorable, viz. in Broad Street, at No. 31. On the 14th, one seizure occurred in the west, in Heddon Court; and on the same day two near the centre, viz. in Silver Street and Marshall Street. On the 16th, two persons were attacked in Berwick Street, and one in Swallow Street; on the 17th, one in Marlborough Street; on the 18th and 19th, two persons in Marshall Street; on the 18th a man in Piccadilly, and on the 19th a man in Ber- wick Street. The deaths in Marshall Street were