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You may observe that more than half the mortality from this
disease in Kensington District, in 1849, occurred in the Potteries
and Jennings'-buildings.

I have ascertained that the visitation of Cholera, in 1854 cost our
parish about £2000 for extra medical relief, and other necessaries,
without taking into consideration the numbers of widows and children
which became chargeable to the parish rates.
The only other information which I am here enabled to lay before
you, is from an inspection of the "Workhouse Reports. It appears that
in August, 1854, just prior to the outbreak of Cholera, there were in
the establishment 231 adults, and 44 children, and at the end of the
year, when the epidemic had ceased, there were 303 adults and 121
children—giving an increase of 149 after the outbreak of the Cholera.
Before quitting this portion of my subject, I must allude to one of
many inconveniences arising from the Registrar-General having included
the parishes of Fulham, Hammersmith, and Paddington, with
our own, under the district " Kensington."
The Registrar-General, in his recent Report, has stated that in
Kensington, Lewisham, and Islington, desirable neighbourhoods, the
deaths, following population, shew a manifest increase; whereas I
have laid before you a Table which shews that the mortality for the
past year in our two sub-districts of Kensington and Brompton is less
than it was in 1854 and 1855, without allowing for any increase of
population at all.