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, July 1855.

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1855
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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, July 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( here w. unified to trace the progress of the Epidemic of 1854 throughout the whole Parish of St. James, aJa small part of St. Anne’s, ' ~ sule w«^our Street, with St Anne’s Court, St. Anne's Place, and Ship Yard,—a larger portion of St. jies’s, and less of St. Anne’s, •v , > taken into account than in the Map prefixed to this Report. 1 ..c deaths here noticed are those of Residents only. 1 v !^ures 111 tlie columns \mder each day of the month mark the locality and date of attack of 57G fatal cases in wliA the date of attack has been ;-'r calculated from the Registrar's Returns or otherwise ascertained. i i'.e first column to the right hand of this Daily Table assigns to each street its whole number of fatal cases in wliicl the date of attack has been :*r~v cd at. At the foot of the Table these same eases are assigned to their several days of attack. 1 tie Cud. drd. 4th, 5th. and last columns to the right hand of the Daily Table shew respectively the total ascertained mortality (including eases ot which the date neither of death nor attack is known), the population (according to the Ceusus of 1851, connected by local knowledge of subsequent iucrease or diminution), the per-ceutage mortality, the number of inhabited houses, and number of houses fatally visited, in each street. Below the Tablo are given St. Anne’s, as fully as it has been possib] Whence it appears that of a total of which the date of attack, and of th< the greater number of the latter cases tl with precise date of attack unascertainet Pulteney Place, and Crown Court (Pall With the ascertained daily deaths the total daily mortality throughout th Health which has reached the Committe< N ivs . * > :u.£T. CorKT, > ' ir..i Slip Yard Orf--nl Sfcee: pm of'' . . V ' ' Mr»s .... 11 Mirry.'v-csh Srree: • ' I -r S ~r : ~ . N r„ : r S' N fStreet Ptilfip's Cocrt Fariaad Street Fccliti Mews I —.:1 Stre-e; North of Broad Street) . Bcisri Street Pohai Street .Imitates' Kao vCssoalties') Dvfoer s Place Wtri-tr Street ^Sc-nth of Edward Street'' Edward Street Praci Li~ t Tyler s Coart Berwick Street vSomh of Broad Street) . Kemp's Court Hopsfn's Street . Hnstox^d Street New Street . Pnlteney Coon Cambridge Street ...... Broad Street Marshall Street ....... South Bow . West Street Marlborough Bow Tyler Court Mariborougii Court ...... Cross Court Carnaby Street ....... Tyler Street Cross Street George Place Silver Street . Navi or s Yard. ..••••■ TCHct Street (Begent Street) . . • b Begem Street (part of) .... f Heddon Street 1 Heddon Court Leicester Street Upper John Street Upper James Street .... Bridle Lane Great Pulteney Street .... T.itilp Windmill Street . Brewer Street ...... Little Pulteney Street .... W11)i»m and Mary Yard ... Peter Street f Green’s Court and .... r ^ Pulteney Place b Walter’s Court f Great Crown Court I George Court ...... I Bupert Street ....... 1 Great Windmill Street .... I Queen’s Head Court .... 1 Ham Yard ........ I Zose 4. j Angel Court • . A Swallow Street I Piccadilly ....... I Jermyn Street \ Su James’s Market .... 1 Eagle Place ! Duke Street b Crown Court (Pall Mall) . . M I Total (ascertained) Daily Petal Attacks S. 0. 10. 11. 11. 13. 14, 15. 16. 17. IS. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 2K 29. 30. 31. J I IMS. S?eel?’ *“■ ’ * (in the rest of London 1 Daily Deaths in all London .... 141 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 11 3 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 I 1 I 3 1 2 6 2 3 1 1 1 1 5 3 2 2 1 1 1 9 4 4 3 1 2 3 i 1 2 1 1 1 J 4 1 1 4 2 3 1 2 1 2 i 1 ~5 1 1 ~2 1 1 1 3 i 1 3 1 3 i l 1 1 1 1 l 1 4 3 2 3 i 6 5 1 1 i 4 3 1 2 1 1 26 24 9 8 6 5 2 i 7 6 3 1 3 3 1 3 5 1 2 2 3 1 2 i 3 4 1 l i 1 1 2 5 8 1 2 i 6 i 2 i i *3 6 1 1 1 i 1 i 1 i i i 1 1 i 1 i 2 6 4 6 1 i 3 i 3 7 3 1 i i 2 2 2 1 3 1 i 1 1 2 2 2 2 l 3 2 2 1 1 l 1 1 i i i 1 i i 142 128 62 55 26 28 22 14 0 2 3 1 3 72 127 76 71 45 40 34 30 24 18 15 7 13 317 332 253 234 222 219 201 185 235 238 218 239 190 3S9 159 329 305 267 259 235 215 259 206 233 246 203 13. 14. 15. 10. inumueu part ot ntrast to the daily attacks just above them, the daily deaths in to adjudge them from various sources of information. 03 ascertained fatal cases, assigned (in the second right hand column) to their several localities, there are 127 127 again 51 of which also the date of death, is not known. There can be little doubt however that in by far date of attack, and indeed of death likewise, belongs to the first week of September. Some few fatal cases ire known to have occurred towards the middle of September in Peter Street, Marshall and Carnaby Streets ill). l the above districts are contrasted the daily deaths in the rest of London, reckoned by subtraction from whole Metropolis as copied (on the lowest line) from the Report of the Medical Council to the Board of since the preceding pages have been in type. f U 18. 10. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 20. 27. 28. 20. 30. 1. Number of Fatal Cases. Where Date of Attack is known. 24 43 — 1 1 1 1 1 6 7 7 9 4 4 1 9 10 3 5 23 25 18 23 21 22 5 5 14 22 7 9 12 15 4 4 2 3 1 1 24 28 5 8 9 13 8 8 14 15 15 17 15 17 90 90 32 49 13 14 10 12 12 16 — 2 3 3 2 2 14 18 5 5 11 15 1 1 18 24 1 1 4 4 1 1 1 1 4 4 1 2 2 3 3 3 5 22 22 19 20 4 4 7 7 2 2 16 20 3 6 1 . 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 4 5 1 1 2 2 592 415 55 444 27 525 58 970 327 802 493 100 709 95 20 50 535 78 70 120 230 150 179 890 951 170 325 223 00 54 38 065 137 367 58 587 15 1005 1092 410 233 245 106 105 68 528 620 530 623 109 650 1224 76 348 81 810 610 94 161 200 151 130 26 318 163 Mortality n. per Cent Populutior Number of inhabited Houses. Number of Houses fatally visited. Name of Street, &c. 7*2 32 21 St. Anne’s Court. 57 1 Oxford Street. 9 1 Marlborough Mews. 5 Marlborough Street. 55 Great Marlborough Street. 62 Wardour Street (North). 27 2 Noel Street. 3 1 Phillip’s Court. 33 7 Portland Street. 5 4 Portland Mews. 2-5 63 15 Berwick Street (North). 14 9 Bentiuck Street. 64 12 Poland Street. 1-0 1 1 Workhouse (Inmates). — — — Ditto (Casualties). 9 5 Dufour’s Place. 19 61 10 Wardour Street (South). 4-2 9 3 Edward Street. 11-5 7 3 Duck Lane. 1-7 4 1 Tyler's Court. 5-2 35 14 Berwick Street (South). 10 2 7 4 Kemp's Court. 18-5 3i 3 Hopkin’s Street. ! 6-0 5' 3 Husbaud Street. 6-5 11 8 New Street. 11-3 7 6 Pulteney Court. 9-4 14 7 Cambridge Street. 10-0 49 35 Broad Street. 51 52 23 Marshall Street. 7-9 7 6 South Bow. 3-6 18 7 West Street. 7-1 11 8 Marlborough Bow. 3-3 6 1 Tyler Court. 5-5 3 2 Marlborough Court. 5’2 4 2 Cross Court. 1-8 58 13 Carnaby Street. 3-0 16 3 Tyler Street. 4-0 14 5 Cross Street. 1*7 4 1 George Place. 4-0 48 18 Silver Street. 6-0 3 1 Naylor's Yard. 03 63 3 King Street. 01 127 1 Begent Street 0-2 18 1 Heddon Street. 1-7 12 3 Heddon Court 0-4 24 1 Leicester Street. 1-8 10 2 Upper John Street 2-8 7 3 Upper James Street. 7-3 10 4 Bridle Lane. 4-1 41 13 Great Pulteney Street 4-1 35 14 Little Windmill Street. 0-7 57 1 Brewer Street. IT 39 6 Little Pulteney Street 1-8 12 2 William and Mary Yard 3-0 29 7 Peter Street 20 11 4 (Green's Court and — — — 1 Pulteney Place. 13 12 1 Walker’s Court 0-5 25 2 Great Crown Court. 1-2 8 1 George Court. 0-2 63 2 Bupert Street 0-8 51 4 Great Windmill Street. 1-0 6 1 Queen’s Head Court. 1-2 13 2 Ham Yard. 0-5 8 1 Augel Court. 1-3 18 2 Swallow Street. — — o Piccadilly. — 2 ermyu Street j 0-7 26 1 St James's Market 3-8 3 1 Cagle Place. 0-3 45 1 Juke Street 12 19 1 Crown Court Daily Deaths (ascertained) in the above Streets, &c. Doily Deaths in the rest of London. Daily Deaths in all London. The only serious deficiencies in the above Table will be perceived in the instances of St. Anne’s Court, the deaths from which are too briefly and barely registered in the Returns, a defect which the Committee had not sufficient local information to supply, Marshall Street, statist^-A ie^Stere^’ ^ Workhouse casualties. On the other hand, in Great Pulteney Street an excess of three deaths over those indicated on the map is now apparent, and in Cross Court an excess of one death. These two cases °f slight excess are the only real discrepancies between previously iecoi istica 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 given above and as reckoned in page 23 of the Report, is due to the fact of St. Anne’s Coirt (excluded from tho calculations of page 23) being here taken into ^ be](m The Workhouse Casualties represent such only of those taken to and dying in the Workhouse whose own homes were, |J,r various reasons, unknown or uncertain. Cases of persons brought there from record’d places of abode are distributed in the Table to the several localities to w no • go ■ PRINTED BY T. BRETTELL, RUPERT 9TREET, 11AVMARKET.