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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$~r APPENDIX B. It is hevo intoudod to trace the progress of the Epidoraio of 1854 throughout tho wholo Parish of St. James, nu\ ft small part of St. Anno's, viz.—the oust sido of Wardour Street, with St. Aimo’s Court, St. Anno’s Place, and Ship Yard,—ft larger portion of St, Amos’s, and loss of St. Anno’s, being thus taken into account than in the Map prefixed] to this Report. lho deaths hero noticed aro thoso of Residents only. The figures in tho columns under each day of tho month murk tho locality nud date of attack of 570 fatal ensos m wfich tho dato of nttaok has boon either calculated from the Registrar’s Returns or otherwise ascertained. The first column to tho right hand of this Daily Tablo assigus to each street its wholo number of fatal casos in wliidi tho date of attack has boon arrived at. At tho foot of tho Table those same eases are assigued to tkoir several days of attack. Tho 9nd, 3rd, 4 th, 5th, and last columns to tho right hand of tho Daily Tablo show respectively tho total tscertaiued mortality (including cases of which the dato neither of death nor attack is known), tho population (according to tho Ceusus of 1851, cm-octod by local knowledge of subsequent increase or diminution), the per-coutago mortality, the number of inhabited houses, and number of housos fataby visited, in each street. James's and tho included part of Bolow the Tablo are given, in contrast to tho daily attacks just ubovo thorn, tho daily deaths in 1 St. Anno’s, as fully as it has been possiblo to adjudge thorn from various sources of information. Whence it appears that of a total of 708 ascertained fatal cases, assigned (in the second right hand column) to thoir several localities there are 127 of which tho dato of attack, and of these 127 again 51 of which also the date of death, is not known. There can lo little doubt however that in b far the greater number of tho latter cases tho date of attack, and indeed of death likewise, belongs to tho first week of September. Some few fatal cases with precise dato of attack unascertained, aro known to have occurred towards the middle of September in Peter Street, Marshall and Carnaby Streets' Pultenoy Place, and Crown Court (Pall Mall). With tho ascertained daily deaths in the above districts aro contrasted the daily deaths in the rest of London, reckoned by subtraction from tho total daily mortality throughout the wholo Metropolis as copied (on the lowest line) from the Report of the Medical Council to tho Board of Health which has reached tho Committee since tho preceding pages have been in type. Name of Street, Covet, &e. t Alice's Conn and Pl»cv, stud Ship Yard . . . J Oxford Street (part of) ..... Marlborough Mews Marlborough Street . Great Marlborough Street ‘ Waidour Street (North of Edward Sueeti Noel Street Phillip's Court Portland Street . Portland Mews Berwick Street (North of Broad Street) . Beutinck Street Poland Street Workhouse (Inmates) Ditto (Casualties) Dufbtrr's Place Wardour Street (South of Edward Street) Edward Street Duck Lane Tyler's Court Berwick Street (South of Broad Street) . Kemp's Court Hopkin s Street Husband Street New Street ........ Pnlteney Court Cambridge Street Broad Street Marshall Street South Row West Street Marlborough Row Tyler Court • Marlborough Court ...... Cross Coart ........ Carnaby Street 3. 4. 5. 0. Cross Street George Place Silver Street Naylor's Yard King Street (Regent Street) . b Regent Street (part of) . . Heddon Street Heddon Court Leicester Street Upper John Street . . . . Upper James Street . . . Bridle Lane Great Pnlteney Street . . . Little Windmill Street . . . Brewer Street . ; . . . Little Pnlteney Street . . . William and Alary Yard . . Peter Street t Green's Court and . . . (Pnlteney Place . . . _ Walker's Court .... Great Crown Court . . . George Court . . . . . Rupert Street Great Windmill Street . . Queen's Head Court . . Ham Yard Angel Court Swallow Street Piccadilly Jermyn Street .... St. James's Market . . . . Eagle Place Duke Street _ Crown Court (Pall Mall) . fotal (ascertained) Daily Fatal Attacks Daily Deaths in all London . 0. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 10. I? 13. 10. 20. 21. 24. 25. 20. a;, 28. 20. £ 1. 2. 3. 4. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 10. 17. 1«. 10. 20. 21. The only serious deficiencies in the above Table will be perceived in the instances of St. Anne's Court, the deffl rom which are too briefly and barely registered in the Returns, a defect which the Cunmittee had not sufficient local information to supply, Marshall Street, also imperfectly registered, aud the Workhouse casualties. On the otheij hand, in Great Pulteney Street an excess of three deaths over those indicates the map is now apparent, and in Cross Court an excess of one death. These two cises of slight excess ore the only real discrepancies between previously recorded statistical conclusions of the Committee and the results of its more recent inquiries. A difference observable between the Totals of Fatal Attacks on August 31st and September 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th as ivon above and as reckoned in page 23 of tho Report, is due to the fact of St. Anne's Court (excluded from the calculations of page 23) being here taken into account. The Workhouse Casualties represent such only of those taken to and dying in the Workhouse whose own homes grej for various reasons, unknown or uncertain. Casos of persons brought there from recorded places of abode are distributed in the Table to the several localities to which they belonged. 24. 25. 20. 27. 28. 20. Number CT. s' 1 ll Population. e , Total ascertained of Attack known, 24 43 592 . — i 1 415 1 55 1 08 7 443 7 9 002 4 444 . -r- 1 27 10 525 5 58 23 20 970 23 327 21 22 802 . 5 5 493 14 22 7 9 100 12 15 709 4 4 95 2 3 20 1 28 535 8 78 13 70 8 8 120 15 230 17 150 15 17 179 90 90 890 32 49 951 13 14 170 10 12 325 12 16 223 . — 2 00 3 2 2 38 14 18 905 5 5 137 11 15 307 1 1 58 18 24 587 1 1 15 4 4 1005 1 1 1092 1 1 410 4 4 233 — 1 245 2 2 100 3 3 105 3 5 08 22 22 528 10 20 020 4 4 530 7 7 023 2 2 109 10 20 650 3 5 (224 __ 1 70 1 2 348 1 1 81 2 2 810 4 5 010 1 j| 1 94 2 2 101 1 1 200 2 2 151 2 2 1 2 1 1 130 1 20 1 318 1 2 103 570 703 Name op Street, See, St. Anne’s Court. Oxford Street Marlborough Slews. Marlborough Street. Great Slarlborongh Street. Wardour Street (North). Noel Street. Phillip’s Court. Portland Street, Portland Slews. Berwick Street (North). Bentinck Street Poland Street. Workhouse (Inmates). Ditto (Casualties). Dufour's Place. Wardour Street (South). Edward Street Duck Lane. Tyler's Court. Berwick Street (South). Kemp's Court. Hopkin’s Street. Husband Street. New Street Pulteney Court Cambridge Street Brood Street Marshall Street South Row. West Street. Marlborough Row. Tyler Court. Marlborough Court. Cross Court. Carnaby Street. Tyler Street Cross Street George Place. Silver Street. Naylor's \rard. King Street. Regent Street Heddon Street. Heddon Court Leicester Street. Upper John Street Upper Janies Sheet. Bridle Lane. Grent Pulteney Street Little Windmill Street. Brewer Street. Little Pulteney Street. William and Mary Yard Peter Street ( Green's Court and 1 Pulteney Place. Walker's Court Great Crown Court. George Court. Rupert Street Great Windmill Street. Queen’s Head Court. Hain Yard. Angel Court. Swallow Street. Piccadilly. Jermyn Street St. James's Market Eagle Place. Duke Street Crown Court Daily Deaths (ascertained) in the above Streets, &c. Daily Deaths in the rest of Loudon. Daily Deaths in all London. PRINTED UY T. 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