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.

Saint James (Westminster, London, England : Parish). Cholera Inquiry Committee.

Date:: 1855

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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$the month of January; in February, only two, the last being on February 4th. For the eight succeeding weeks no fatal case was registered in London. During the month of April four deaths occurred. Three weeks passed without a death from Cholera, and then four happened in the latter part of May. In the first three weeks of June three deaths oc- curred, in the fourth week no death. In the first week of July one death was registered, in the second week 5 deaths, in the third 26, in the fourth 133, in the fifth 399; and so the numbers kept increasing weekly up to 2,050 in the week ending September 9th, and then diminished again, as shewn in the subjoined table. The mortality from Cholera, in all London, was reduced to 8 in the week termi- nating the 8th of November. Now, according to the Registrar-General’s re- turns, no death from Cholera took place during last year in St. James’s parish until the week ending the 5th August, when one fatal case was returned. From this date the Cholera mortality in the parish rose and fell as shewn in the annexed table, in which the corresponding mortality in all London, and that in London exclusive of St. James’s, is also shewn. Julv Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sep. Sep. Sep. Sep. Sem Oct. Oct. 29. 5. 12. 19. 20. 2. 9. 10. 23. 30. 7. 14. London. . . . 133 399 G44 729 847 1287 2050 1549 1284 754 411 249 London, exclud-\ ing St. James’s / 133 398 039 717 841 1209 1703 1482 1205 747 410 249 St. James’s. . . 0 1 5 12 0 78 287 07 19 7 1 0$