Note 37 — Introductory material
Reading edition
In London in 1832–3 (population 1,682,000), the attacks were 14,144, the deaths were 6,729. 1848–9 (population 2,206,000), the attacks were about 30,000, the deaths about 14,600, so that in the last epidemic the deaths were more numerous than the attacks in 1832–3, whilst the attacks were more than double.