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

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 King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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$Tablu I.—CiioLEiiA Casks in London and Vicinity, reported in 1832. Places. r Bellinal Green llerinuiiilsey Camberwell ClerUcnHoU Gvni'^e, St., Hanover Square Gcorye, St., in the East . Giles, St IDeptfoKl . . . < Greenwich • . . I Woolwich . , (HaeUnpy . . . \ Stoke New in^lon Greenwich Hackney Holborn . IsUn''ton Kensin''ton [,ambelli . ' •London, City . . . Loniloa, East and West Luke. St., Middlesex . Marylebonc, St. Newinyton, Surrey Pancras, St. ... [ Hroinley Poplar . . < Poplar . IStiatfiTd Rotherhiilie .... Shoreditch {Chelsea and Brompton Fulham . . . Kensington Paddington . . Poiiululion. 62,018 29,741 28,2.31 4T,G34 58,209 38,505 52,y07 19,795 1 24,533 J-62,009 17,661 I 3,846\ 3;480| 7,326 27,334 37,316 75,130 Southwark Stepney . j Cluistcliiirch . . . j St.George the Martyrl ' jSt. Olave's . . . \ I St., Saviour's . . J {Limeiiouse . . Mile Etui .... RatclifTe . . . . Shad well . . . . Wapi)ini; . . . I St. Mary-le Strand . Strand . St. Paul, Covent Card. I Rolls Liberty . . { Si. James . Westminster< Sts. Margaret & .Tohu I St. Mariin's . Iliotolph without Ald- Uale Spitalfields . . . Tower and Liberty , Whilechapel . . . Total Metropolitan Districts . 32.371 7,317 20,902 14,510 87,856 55,798 No return. 46,642 122,206 44,526 103,548 4,846 1 16,849 >25,0C6 3,371 I 12,875 68,564 13,705 1 77,796 >91,501 4 . r B U u 3 /5 Bartholomew, St., (he Great Brentford, Old and New Chiswick IIi!;hgale Afloat in River .... Hospital, Greville Street Sundry I'risons .... ,,. , 1 Balterseu . \\undsworth . . . I Putney . . Clupham Wandsworth . . Total Metropolis and Vicinity 15,695 \ 40,282 9,741 >78,826 9,544 3,.5C4 ' 2,052 1 5,203 > 9,937 2,682 ] 1:4,585 13,4331 17,949 >,i2,848 713 30,733 J 1,451,138 2,923 2,085 4,994 2,172 Not known. 5,540 3:8?? ?2G,183 6.879 3,489,500 545 325 220 2-5' 100' 175 196 . 922 97 .470 99 . 452 30 10 20 421 263. 158 J 9 27 15 25 10,182 9 70 21 6 270 141 245 4,835 C 30 18 2 139 68 81 .11 4C. 11,020 5,275 10 G 11 . 5,297 3 40 3 4 131 3 164 30 5,745 • Since the publication of the folio edition of the Report, it has been stated that the population of the City of London here given, which is correctly cojiied from the return received from the Counril Office, is errroncous, and that the 614 cases occurred in the City, within and w iihout the walls, com- prisinf; a population of 123,'i83. There appears, however, to be much uncertainty as to the correct- ness of tliis statement, and atlention had already been called to the fact (in a note to Table 111.) that the return received from the Council OfUce w iis incomplete. Nvtc.—The p;irishes and places from wliich returns of Cholera were obtained, have been arranged into the llegisiration Districts ailopteil by the Uegislrar-General, in order to fdcililate compiirisons with Fever cases, iiH shown by Tablu III. Tlie places last-named above are exclialcd from the calculations, as not form'.ng part of llie Metropolitan Districts, or being olhetwise defi clive in tin! renirn'.$