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.

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, July 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    females numbering about 160, the males about 30, sixteen of the former and two of the latter were fatally seized, whilst in the Workhouse, not 150 yards away, which had at the same time about 500 residents, only five inmates died. Of 35 men working in the open air on the unfinished lodging- houses, seven died. Corner houses sometimes escaped, the 6 for in- stance on the north side of Broad Street, in one of which however there were 3 severe though not fatal attacks. Of corner houses in the Cholera area, about 30 per cent, had fatal attacks in them. Public-houses, so often situated at the corners of streets, were singularly lightly visited. As a general condition, remoteness from the centre of the Cholera area seems most to have been associated with exceptional suffering, and proximity to it by exceptional immunity, from the disease. Towards the centre of the area, in Broad Street, the number of deaths appears to have been nearly equal on each floor, if we reckon the ground floors and kitchens together. In reference to the popu- lation, however, the ground floors suffered most; next, in diminishing proportion, the first floors, third floors and kitchens, and least of all the second floors. Yet throughout the neighbourhood gene- rally, including Broad Street, the deaths on the second floors were the most numerous of all. In the streets furthest removed north and south from the centre, the residents in the upper floors suffered somewhat more in proportion.