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.

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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, July 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thus defined, and henceforth in this Report in- tended to be understood, the “ Cholera area,” in- cluding St. Anne’s Court, and excluding the vacant spaces just mentioned, covers nearly 30 acres of ground, containing, besides streets, courts, and mews, 825 dwellings, St. Luke’s Church, Craven Chapel, the Workhouse, a block of model lodging houses (unfinished in 1854), a brewery, and various factories and workshops. In round numbers, its population, in the autumn of 1854, as well as can be estimated, was nearly 14,000 inhabitants (in- clusive of 500 in the Workhouse). This would be about 460 persons to an acre. Now the ascer- tained deaths of residents within this 4 Cholera area’ are 618, being at the rate of 440 to 10,000 persons living. The deaths of non-residents, so far as these are known, viz., 45, are also indicated on the map. The ascertained deaths and per centage of mor- tality in the several streets within the Cholera area are tabulated in the Appendix, whilst the distribu- tion of the deaths is represented in the map. No street in the Cholera area was without death, but the mortality was greatest towards the centre of the area, and diminished towards its borders. There are exceptions, depending mostly on an extreme mortality in some one house in a small street, as in Cross Street on the west, Bentinck Street on the north, and Peter Street on the south- east. In Hopkins Street, then containing only three houses, the mortality was 18 per cent. In
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