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Cholera and the Water Supply in the South Districts of London in 1854

Table IV. The Inquiry of the General Register Office during the Last Ten Weeks of the Epidemic.

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Registration District. Number of inhabited houses in 1851. Population in 1851. Estimated constant population per house. “Number of houses, and estimated number of persons, supplied in 1854 with water as under.” Water supply of the houses in which fatal attacks of cholera took place. Deaths from cholera in last ten weeks of epidemic. Mortality per 10,000 supplied with water as under.

By Southwark and Vauxhall Co. By the Lambeth Company. Southwark and Vauxhall Co. Lambeth Co. From pumpwells. Supply not ascertained. Southwark and Vauxhall Co. Lambeth Co.

No. of houses. Estimated Population. No. of houses. Estimated Population.

St. Saviour, Southwark 4,600 35,721 7·8 2,631 19,617 1,689 14,201 280 59 0 2 341 143 41

St. Olave, Southwark 2,360 19,375 8·2 2,193 18,638 0 0 186 0 0 23 209 100

Bermondsey 7,007 48,128 6·9 8,402 57,884 268 1,785 555 0 0 0 555 96

St. George, Southwark 6,992 51,824 7·4 3,419 25,039 3,183 23,712 254 79 0 53 386 101 33

Newington 10,458 64,816 6·2 5,224 31,940 5,473 33,531 303 47 1 174 525 95 14

Lambeth 20,447 139,325 6·8 8,077 54,982 11,763 83,786 349 95 9 231 684 63 11

Wandsworth 8,276 50,764 6·1 3,028 18,390 618 3,870 206 6 73 40 325 112 15

Camberwell 9,412 54,667 5·8 4,005 23,472 1,835 10,478 167 24 113 48 352 71 23

Rotherhithe 2,792 17,805 6·4 2,336 14,951 0 0 139 0 11 30 180 93

Greenwich & sub-dis. Sydenham 4 3 7

Houses not identified 6·6 411 2,712 25 165

Totals 72,344 482,435 6·7 39,726 267,625 24,854 171,528 2,443 313 207 601 3,564 91 18

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