At 32, Duke Street, Aug. 1, the son of a smith, aged 5 years, “Asiatic cholera 36 hours”
At 11, London Road, July 31st, a servant, aged 17, “Asiatic cholera 24 hours”
At Spiller’s Ct., Webber Row, Aug. 1, the daughter of a charwoman, aged 18 months, “chronic diarrhœa 2 months, cholera 24 hours”
At 2, Short St., Tower St., Aug. 2, a coal-porter, aged 32, “cholera 3 days”
At 8, Princes Court, Princes Street, on the 3rd of August, the son of a butcher, aged 5¹⁄₂ years, “cholera 8 hours”
At 105, Blackfriars Road, Aug. 1, a compositor, aged 32, “diarrhœa, cholera 14 hours”
At 3, Duke Street, Tower Street, August 4th, the son of a civil engineer (deceased), “consumption 9 months, cholera 8 hours”
At 58, Brandon Street, July 26, a house-painter, aged 24, “Asiatic cholera 40 hours”
At 3, Winter Terrace, July 31, the wife of an engineer, aged 27, “cholera 26 hours”
At 16, Swan St., Aug. 1, the son of a carpenter, aged 8 years, “cholera maligna 14 hours”
At 6, St. Andrew’s Rd., Aug. 1, a waiter, aged 35, “diarrhœa 3 days, cholera maligna 12 hours”
At 175, Kent St., Aug. 2, the son of a clothier, aged 7 years, “malignant cholera 23 hours”
At 66, Brunswick St., Aug. 3, the wife of an engineer, aged 35, “cholera 1 week, exhaustion”
At 64, Trinity Square, August 2, a milliner, aged 32, “cholera maligna 30 hours”
At 3, Etham Place, Aug. 3, a paperhanger, aged 42, “cholera Asiatica 6¹⁄₂ hours”
At 54, Great Dover Rd., Aug. 3, the widow of a wine merchant, aged 64, “English cholera 23 hours, collapse 12 hours”
At 182, Kent Street, August 4th, a labourer, aged 23 years, “diarrhœa 17 hours, cholera Asiatica 8 hours, collapse”
At 99, Uxbridge Street, Aug. 4, the son of a jeweller, aged 3 years, “diarrhœa 27 hours, Asiatic cholera 24 hours, collapse”
At the same house, on the same day, the daughter of a jeweller, aged 1 year, “Asiatic cholera 28 hours, collapse”
At 11, Swan Street, August 5, the wife of a collecting clerk, aged 42, “chronic bronchitis 5 years, English cholera 3 days, collapse 18 hours”
At 58, Brandon St., Aug. 4, the widow of a house-painter, aged 26, “Asiatic cholera 4 days”
At 7, Berkeley Terrace, the 25th of July, the wife of a mercantile clerk, aged 35 years, “Asiatic cholera 14 hours”
At 8, Townley Place, on the 29th of July, the son of a journeyman shoemaker, aged 6¹⁄₂ years, “cholera 19 hours”
At 8, Richmond Street, July 28th, the daughter of a labourer, aged 5 years, “choleraic diarrhœa 3 days, cerebral effusion 2 days”
At 6, John Street, East Street, July 29th, the widow of a carman, aged 83, “cholera Anglica 27 hours, old age”
At 29, Pilgrim Street, on the 1st of August, the daughter of an ostler, aged 18 months, “Asiatic cholera 8 hours”
At 8, Townley Place, August 1st, the daughter of a journeyman shoemaker, aged 8 years, “cholera Asiatica about 16 hours”
At 29, Beckford Row, Aug. 1, the wife of a greengrocer, aged 46 years, “cholera Asiatica 16 hours, collapse 11 hours”
At 15, Smith Street, Aug. 3, the wife of a baker, aged 20, “Asiatic cholera 8 hours”
At 1, John Street, Walworth Common, August 2, the wife of a glue-maker, aged 54, “diarrhœa 2 days, cholera 22 hours”
At 2, Milk Street, on the 2nd of August, the daughter of a journeyman shoemaker, aged 6 years, “Asiatic cholera 30 hours”
At 7, Blucher St., Aug. 2, a gentleman, aged 36, “cholera Asiatica 20 hours, collapse”
At 28, Bronti Place, August 2nd, the wife of a letter carrier, aged 46, “cholera Asiatica 28 hours, collapse 24 hours”
At 2, Totham Place, Boundary Lane, August 2nd, the widow of a journeyman bricklayer, aged 63, “Asiatic cholera 18 hours”
At 2, Sarah Terrace, Hill Street, August 2nd, the son of a clerk in the Post Office, aged 5¹⁄₂ years, “epidemic cholera 7 hours”
At 99, Hill Street, on the 3rd of August, the daughter of a traveller, aged 1 year and 10 months, “malignant cholera 9 hours”
At 18, West Street, Aug. 4, a needlewoman, aged 22, “cholera maligna 12 hours”
At 26, Penton Row, Aug. 1, an auctioneer, aged 39, “diarrhœa 52 hours, cholera 9 hours”.
At 21, Park Road, August 5th, an iron-planer, aged 43, “cholera 4 days”
At 19, James Place, Hill Street, Aug. 5, a gentleman, aged 89, “choleraic diarrhœa 6 days”
At the same house, same day, the wife of the above, aged 50, “Asiatic cholera 12 hours”
At 4, Parsonage Row, July 30, a gentlewoman, aged 40, “Asiatic cholera 16 hours”
At 31, Weymouth Street, July 28, the wife of a chairmaker, aged 34, “Asiatic cholera 12 hrs.”
At 8, Church St., July 30, the daughter of a chairmaker, aged 17 months, “cholera 10 hours”
At 8, Peacock Sq., July 31, the widow of a seaman, aged 59, “cholera 12 hours, typhus 4 days”
At 19, Waterloo Pl., Aug. 2, the son of a shoemaker, aged 8 years, “cholera 12 hours”
At Curtis Hatch, on 29th July, a Baptist minister, aged 52, “diarrhœa 3 days, Asiatic cholera and collapse 18 hours”. The informant stated that deceased, whom he had long known, called at his house about seven in the morning before his death; he was then very ill. He lived at 7, Lower Anne Street, Waterloo Road, where the supply was
At 4, Hammond’s Place, on 30th July, the wife of a labourer, aged 72, “diarrhœa 24 hours, malignant cholera 12 hours”
At 4, Queen Street, July 31st, late a brewer’s servant, aged 76, “cholera 1 day”
At 41, Brad Street, August 1st, the wife of a printer, aged 51, “cholera 26 hours”
At 3, Hammond’s Place, on August 5th, the daughter of a smith, aged 6 years, “diarrhœa and malignant cholera 12 hours”
At 23, Howley Place, July 29, the wife of a carman, aged 58, “cholera about 11 hours”
At 18, Vine Terrace, on 31st July, a butcher, aged 19, “Asiatic cholera 18 hours”
At 36, Isabella St., July 30, a hammerman at a factory, aged 39, “Asiatic cholera 68 hours”
At 12, Harriet Street, on 2nd August, a miller, aged 17, “cholera Asiatica 17 hours”
At 9, Griffin Street, Aug. 4, the wife of a bricklayer, aged 75, “Asiatic cholera 48 hours”
At 52, Upper Fore Street, on July 20th, the wife of a bricklayer’s labourer, aged 23, “cholera 12 hours”
At 6, Newport Street, on 30th July, the wife of a porter, aged 37, “cholera 8 hours”
At 32, South St., July 31, a timber-merchant’s widow, aged 67, “Asiatic cholera 15 hours”
At 3, Mount Place, Kennington Road, on 31st July, a wine merchant, aged 35, “Asiatic cholera 16 hours”; address not found
At 7, Vauxhall Row, Aug. 2, the son of a bricklayer, aged 4 years, “cholera 16 hours”
At 26, New St., July 28, the wife of a labourer, aged 29, “diarrhœa 3 days, cholera 12 hours”
At 29, Park Street, July 29, an eating-house keeper, aged 39, “cholera 9¹⁄₂ hours”
At 79, Wickham Street, August 1, the daughter of an engineer, aged 1 year, “choleraic diarrhœa, exhaustion”
At 24, Caroline Street, on 31st July, the son of a labourer, aged 14 years, “cholera 11 hours”
At the Workhouse, on 2nd August, a washerwoman, aged 23, “Asiatic cholera”; admitted in a dying state; address not known
At 60, Park Street, on 2nd August, the wife of a lathrender, aged 31, “cholera 2 days, consecutive fever 5 days”
At 4, High St., Vauxhall, Aug. 3, a musician, aged 35, “malignant cholera after 2 days diarrhœa, 6 days secondary fever, with cerebral congestion.”
At Vauxhall Gardens, on 2nd August, a widow, aged 56, “cholera 16 hours”
At 33, East Street, on 3rd Aug., a carpenter, aged 40, “diarrhœa 7 days, cholera 3 days”
At 19, Bennett’s Buildings, on 4th August, the daughter of a carpenter, aged 2 years, “cholera Asiatica 12 hours”
At 6, William Street, Clapham Road, on 26th July, the son of a carpenter, aged 2 years, “Asiatic cholera 12 hours”
At 3, Dudley Place, Clapham Road, on 24th July, the wife of a bookseller, aged 42, “sero-spasmodic cholera 15 hours”
At 7, Henry Street, Dorset Street, Clapham Road, on 28th July, the daughter of a butcher, aged 4 years, “cholera sero-spasmodica 15 hours”
At 23, Cambridge Terrace, Clapham Road, on 30th July, the daughter of a commercial traveller, aged 20, “choleraic diarrhœa 24 hours”
At 3, Belmont Place, Wandsworth Road, on 29th July, the daughter of a railway-guard, aged 8 years, “cholera 10¹⁄₂ hours”
At 9, Regency Place, White Hart Street, on 31st July, the widow of a brass-worker, aged 44, “cholera 30 hours”
At 1, Bowling Green Mews, on 28th July, the daughter of a chairmaker, aged 8 years, “cholera 13 hours”
At 61, Prince’s Square, July 31, widow of a linen-agent, aged 42, “Asiatic cholera 15 hours”
At 4, Southville, Wandsworth Road, on 2nd August, a paperhanger, aged 26, “Asiatic cholera, premonitory diarrhœa 24 hours, collapse 24 hours”
At 5, South Lambeth, Aug. 4, the wife of an equestrian, aged 39, “cholera Asiatica 36 hours”
At 19, Mansion House Street, Kennington, on 3rd August, formerly a dressmaker, aged 36, “cholera Asiatica 6 hours, premonitory diarrhœa 2 days”
At 14, Robertson Place, Stockwell, on 3rd August, the wife of a carpenter, aged 35, “Asiatic cholera 5 hours”
At 2, James Street, on 5th August, the son of a bricklayer, aged 7 yrs., “cholera 7 hours”
At 1, Somerset Place, Aug. 3, a gentleman, aged 56, “spasmodic cholera 12 hours”
At 2, Sussex Road, July 14th, the widow of a coachman, aged 53, “diarrhœa 6 days, English cholera 3 days”
At 5, Cook’s Buildings, Park Road, on 29th July, the daughter of a sawyer, aged 3 years, “cholera 12 hours, diarrhœa 3 days”
At 4, Howard Street, Wandsworth Road, July 30, a labourer, aged 74, “cholera 52 hours”
At 1, Waterloo Retreat, Bromell’s Road, July 29, a gardener, aged 46, “cholera 12 hours”
At High Street, July 31, a domestic servant, aged 28, “cholera 52 hours”
At 13, Prospect Place, Wandsworth Road, on 2nd August, a Government clerk, aged 50, “malignant cholera 4 days, diarrhœa 48 hours, collapse”.
At 6, Church Road, July 19, the wife of a house-agent, aged 48, “Asiatic cholera 48 hours”
At Nine Elms, on 26th July, the widow of a cooper, aged 79, “cholera 18 hours”
At Albert Villas, on 27th July, the son of a clerk in the Customs, aged 2 years, “premonitory diarrhœa a month, Asiatic cholera 16 hours, consecutive fever 30 hours, convulsions 2 hours”
At Lavender Hill, on 25th July, the wife of a gentleman, aged 46, “premonitory diarrhœa 20 hours, cholera 16 hours”
At 25, Little Europa Place, on 30th July, the wife of a gardener, aged 50 years, “Asiatic cholera 33 hours”
At York Road, on 31st July, the daughter of a gardener, aged 12 years, premonitory diarrhœa neglected 8 hours, “Asiatic cholera, 11 hours”
At 18, York Street, Battersea Fields, on 29th July, the son of a boiler-maker, aged 1 year and 7 months, “cholera 10 hours”
At Canterbury Place, York Road, on 2nd August, the wife of a bricklayer, aged 35, “diarrhœa unattended 2 days, Asiatic cholera 12 hours”
At 33, Little Europa Place, on 2nd August, a labourer, aged 48, “premonitory diarrhœa 4 hours, cholera 16 hours”
At Falcon Lane, on 3rd August, the daughter of a chemist deceased, aged 14 years, “premonitory diarrhœa 4 hours, cholera 24 hours”
At Lavender Road, on 3rd August, a clockmaker, aged 47, “Asiatic cholera”
At York Road, August 4, the daughter of a gardener, aged 21, “cholera maligna 11 hours”
At 30, Ægis Terrace, Battersea Fields, on 2nd August, the son of a horse-dealer, aged 12 years, “cholera 15 hours”
At Armoury Yard, on 3rd August, the daughter of a labourer, aged 4 years, “measles 6 days, cholera 6 hours”
At Apothecaries’ Row, 5th Aug., the son of a sawyer, aged 10, “cholera 12 hours”
At Cooper’s Arms Lane, on 5th August, a bricklayer’s labourer, aged 38, “premonitory diarrhœa 9 hours, cholera 15 hours”
At 1, Rose Cottages, Waterloo Street, on 23rd July, the daughter of a proctor’s clerk, aged 8 years, “cholera Asiatica 15 hours”
At the same house, on same day, the sister of the above, aged 1 year, “cholera Asiatica 9 hours”
At Garden Cottage, Harris Street, on 22nd July, a carman, aged 49, “cholera 16 hours”
At 17, James Street, on 26th February, the daughter of a single woman, aged 14 days, “natural exhaustion from choleraic diarrhœa” (Inquest.)
At Ann’s Place, George Street, on 2nd August, the daughter of a coachman, aged 4 years, “cholera 8 hours”
At 9, Martha Street, on 3rd August, a fish-hawker, aged 62, “cholera 24 hours”
At 8, Cork Street, on 4th August, the wife of a labourer, aged 33, “cholera 32 hours”
At the Workhouse, on 29th July, a nurse, aged 60 years, “cholera 24 hours”. From 5, Martin’s Road, Peckham
At 57, James Street, on 5th August, the wife of a waiter, aged 33, “cholera 17 hours”
At Camberwell House, on 1st August, a male, aged 69 years, “exhaustion from mania 3 months, cholera 24 hours”
At Camberwell House, on 1st August, a mariner, aged 53 years, “general paralysis 11 months, cholera 17 hours”
At 13, Waterloo Street, on 30th July, the son of a labourer, aged 4 yrs., “cholera 7 hours”
At 3, Caroline Place, Wyndham Road, on 31st July, the daughter of a brewer’s servant, aged 1 year, “cholera 9 hours”
At Camberwell House, Lunatic Asylum, on 28th July, a male, aged 32, “epilepsy 7 years, cholera 8 hours”
At Camberwell House, Lunatic Asylum, on 29th July, a labourer, aged 43, “general paralysis 2 years, cholera 18 hours”
At Camberwell House, on 29th July, a servant, aged 47, “cholera 26 hours”
At 30, Clarendon Street, on 30th July, a grocer, aged 56, “Asiatic cholera 9 hours”
At 1, Absolom Place, South Street, on 2nd August, a girl, aged 21 months, “diarrhœa 48 hours, cholera 21 hours”
At 17, Cork Street, on 1st August, the son of a painter, aged 1 year, “diarrhœa 2 days, cholera 1 day”
At 5, Martin’s Road, July 27th, the wife of a labourer, aged 40, “cholera maligna 16 hours”
At the same house, on 29th July, the daughter of a labourer, aged 2 yrs., “cholera 28 hours”
At 33, Rye Lane, on 30th July, a domestic servant, aged 23, “cholera 5¹⁄₂ hours”
At 2, Nun Green, Nunhead, on August 4, the daughter of a potter’s labourer, aged 4 years, “cholera 48 hours”
At Binfield House, Windmill Lane, July 28, the son of a labourer, aged 4 years, “cholera 16 hours”
At 2, Waterloo Place, Coburg Road, July 31, a girl, aged 3 months, “cholera 20 hours”
At 1, Oakley Ter., Old Kent Rd., July 29, the wife of an oilman, aged 30, “Asiatic cholera”
At the same house, Aug. 1, the son of an oilman, aged 8 weeks, “cholera maligna 3 days”
At 6, Brown’s Terrace, Wyndham Road, Aug. 3, the son of a labourer, aged 3 months, “infantile cholera 6 days”
At 27, Thomas Street, Wyndham Road, Aug. 4, the widow of a labourer, aged 68, “diarrhœa 6 days, cholera 4 days”
At 7, Rosemary Terrace, Southampton Street, Aug. 5, the son of a labourer, aged 7 years, “Asiatic cholera 15 hours”
At 5, Chatham Place, Windmill Lane, August 3rd, a plumber, aged 60, “diarrhœa 2 days, cholera 2 days”
At 7, Gloucester Pl., Old Kent Rd., Aug. 4, a carman, aged 19, “Asiatic cholera 15 hours”
At 2, Albert Place, Union Road, July 8, the wife of a coffee-shopkeeper, aged 32, “cholera 30 hours”
At 7, Spread Eagle Court, July 22nd, the wife of a labourer, aged 25, “cholera 12 hours”
At 19, Spread Eagle Court, July 24th, the daughter of a labourer, aged 1 year and 9 months, “cholera 20 hours”
At 4, John’s Place, July 25th, a blacksmith, aged 41, “cholera 10 hours”
At 1, John’s Place, July 27th, the wife of a biscuit baker, aged 45, “cholera 26 hours”
At 5, John’s Place, July 25, the son of a baker, aged 4 years, “cholera 24 hours”
At 89, Adam Street, on the 28th July, the widow of a blacksmith, aged 36 years, “diarrhœa 24 hours, cholera 16 hours”
At 5, King St., July 29th, the wife of a labourer, aged 40, “cholera 2¹⁄₂ days”
At Charlotte Place, Charlotte Row, July 29, the son of a barge-builder, aged 3 years, “cholera 3 days”
At 5, Slater’s Alley, July 29, a labourer, aged 33, “cholera 3¹⁄₂ days”
At 18, Upper Queen Street, Aug. 2, the daughter of a labourer, aged 7 years, “cholera 2 days, typhoid fever 7 days”
At 1, Thetford Place, August 1, the son of a labourer, aged 7 years, “cholera 7 hours”
On board ship in the Surrey Canal Dock, August 2, a mariner, aged 65, “Asiatic cholera 18 hours”
On board the brig “Borcas”, of Sunderland, in the river Thames, Aug. 2, the wife of a master mariner, aged 38, “cholera 13¹⁄₂ hours”
At 20, Spread Eagle Court, Aug. 1, a labourer, aged 28, “cholera 16 hours”
At 7, Midway Pl., Aug. 1, the daughter of a domestic servant, aged 3 years, “measles 14 days, Asiatic cholera 18 hours”
At 12, St. Helena Pl., Aug. 1, the wife of a carpenter, aged 31, “morbus cordis 5 years, Asiatic cholera 24 hours”
At 18, Stanley Terrace, August 1, the son of a mercantile clerk, aged 2 years, “premonitory diarrhœa 3 hours, Asiatic cholera 5 hours”
At York St., near Swan Lane, Aug. 1, the son of a carpenter, aged 3 yrs., “cholera 12 hours”
At York Street, near Swan Lane, on 3rd August, a carpenter, aged 38, “cholera 8 hours”
At 8, Norfolk Place, August 4, the son of a labourer, aged 5 years, “cholera 8 hours”
At 16, Charlotte Row, Aug. 3, the wife of a waterman, aged 57, “cholera 20 hours”
At 3, Plough Bridge, Aug. 3, the daughter of a warehouseman, aged 12, “Asiatic cholera 12 hours”
At 53, Clarence Street, Aug. 4, the wife of a labourer, aged 48, “cholera 14 hours”
At York St., near Swan Lane, Aug. 5, the son of a carpenter, aged 1 year, “cholera 3 days”
At 9, New St., Neptune St., Aug. 5, the wife of a brushmaker, aged 57, “cholera 3 days”
1. Report on the Epidemic Cholera, 1824, p. 5.
2. On the Infectious Origin and Propagation of Cholera.
3. See “London Journal of Medicine,” May, 1849.
4. London Journal of Medicine, loc. cit.
5. In the so-called secondary fever there is toxicohæmia, arising from suppressed excretion by the kidneys.
6. See “London Gazette”, 18th Sept. 1849.
7. See Report in “Med. Gaz.”, vol. ii, 1849, p. 429.
8. Edin. Med. and Sur. Jour., vol. xxxvii.
9. Scot, “Report on the Epidemic Cholera”, p. 237.
10. The particulars of each death connected with this outbreak were published in the “Weekly Returns” of the Registrar-General to 16th September, and I procured the remainder through the kindness of the Registrar-General and the District Registrars.
11. The deaths are obtained from the “First Report of the Metropolitan Sanitary Commission”, 1847; and the water supply, chiefly from a work entitled “Hydraulia”, by William Matthews, 1835.
12. A small part of the Whitechapel District is supplied with New River water.
13. A Microscopic Examination of the Water supplied to London. London: 1850.
14. P. 207. In the table at page 206, Dr. Baly has fallen into the mistake of supposing that the Lambeth Water Company obtained their supply from Thames Ditton in 1849. It was not till 1852 that their works were removed to that place. Dr. Baly has also mistaken the name and identity of all the three Companies which supply the south districts of London with water.