First report of the commissioners : appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence.
- Great Britain. Metropolitan Sanitary Commission
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: First report of the commissioners : appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Table IV.—Cholera. Proportions of Attacks and Deaths, of Fever and Cholera, in 20 Metropolitan Districts.* d> 13 ** c £ ■■»' xi 2 fe S Proportion of Average of each Group. Deaths to Metropolitan Districts from which a. a a 3. 3 *> ft - 2 .5 3 5 <-. w E. Population. Attacks of Deathsfrom Returns of Fever •s o f£ » 0 4..O S a. were made o o % * X o g-+r in 183d. aj13' u -3 5 = ** 5 I^s ** ^ v. g ll 3 —' §3 5 3 oo =3 Ha m o -o > C3 > 9 3 % z- £ £ ■5 a £ 5 £ J3 o r 1 in 1 in 1 in 1 in St. George } Soutliwark j 1,467 1,276 1-15 36 321 91] be Whitechapel . 5,856 2,405 2-4 57 165 113 1 u Ueihnal Green 3,632 1,209 3-0 204 239 365 a & Holborn 2,339 705 3-3 166 227 594 sjg!,* Lambeth 7,911 1,658 4*8 155 396 261 1 in 1 in 1 in 1 in fi£ Camiierwell 1,158 238 4-9 130 638 2H4' 3-4 85 263 185 Rotherhithe 1,745 356 4-9 613 302 678 Bernvmdsey 3,000 593 5 0 58 206 142 1 n a Hackney 2,620 42-S 61 733 999 916 | •X' St. Saviour's . 1,856 294 6-3 54 160 136: l§ '. Stepney 8,596 1,348 6-4 162 288 171 j «'s f Strand . 1,692 231 7-3 118 463 2701 ■s 3 St Olave's . 1,949 264 7-4 36 160 91 1c O West Ham . . 3,041 326 9-3 626 ■f ft J Kensington 6,114 573 10-7 240 522 561 a i ^ St. Gi'orge-in- > the-East . J Wandsworth I audClapliam 5 6,869 627 10-9 172 208 313 1 in lin 1 in lin ■2 ij .2 3. 2,553 234 10-9 345 573 5691 9-5 157 324 326 » . Poplar . 6,039 520 11-6 120 412 234 5 Greenwich . 6,607 522 12-7 255 304 4i7l St. Martin's . Total . . 2,142 77,186 165 13 0 i!28 352 385 J 13,972 5-5 110 291 234 * Taken from the Fifth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 8vo., p. 162. -j- From Returns of Cholera Cases made to the Privy Council Office. X From the Second Annual Report of the Registrar-General, 8vo., p. 201. From the whole then it appears, that though cholera presents a much more alarming aspect than fever, from the inevitable de- struction of the large proportion of those whom it attacks, and from the rapidity with which it proves fatal, yet that the mortality from both is equalized by the speedy exhaustion of the powers of cholera, and the persistence of fever in the localities where it has originated. Difference of social grade less exempts the individual from the attack of cholera than of fever, and cholera more often, and ap- parently more capriciously, bursts its usual boundaries, and attacks the inhabitants of comparatively healthier districts, amongst whom it then proves little less mortal than when it ravages its accus- tomed haunts. If, as is justly observed by the Registrar-General, in the present social condition of the civilized world, the vast po- pulations of different and distant nations are intimately united; if it be true, that were the health of India sound, Europe might be safe, and hear no more of the epidemic which is now traversing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21011527_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
