Note 42 — SECOND ANNUAL REPORT.

I have reason to believe that this statement, though founded on the authority of Stow, is erroneous, for so much of the district as lies west of Moorgate-street; and that the main cause of this locality suffering so severely from cholera must have lain in those very extensive defects of house-drainage, which more recently I have become better able to appreciate. With the kind assistance of Mr. Haywood, I have been enabled to look over the memoranda which are kept in his office, of deep cuttings of soil made in the construction of sewers by himself and his predecessor, Mr. Kelsey. These sections do not by any means tally with Stow’s description of the Moor, as extending in part ‘from without the postern called Cripplegate, even to the river of Wels;’ for here at least there is no trace of any such condition of soil.—J. S., 1854.