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is sufficiently large to deal with any serious outbreak, and
as the mortuary keeper resides upon the premises, bodies
can be received at any time of the day or night.
With regard to the interment of the dead the arrangements
which were entered into last year, with Mr. C. H.
Perryman, of 14, Little Queen Street, W.C., and the
London Necropolis, and National Mausoleum Company, of
2, Lancaster Place, Strand, W.C., should, I think, be
renewed.
The Lancet of September, 1893, gives the following
comment of the outbreak:—
" Last year there were epidemics of cholera, which seemed
to have started from different centres and pursued different
and independent courses. That which was nearest to us in
Europe and earliest in point of time, commenced in a limited
but sudden and fatal outbreak in an overcrowded prison at
Nanterre, close to the Seine, in April of last year, and afterwards
in the suburbs of Paris; the disease subsequently prevailing,
though not to any great extent, amongst various
towns and places in France, and extending to Rouen and
Havre. The starting point of the other larger and more
formidable epidemic was assumed to be from India, by way
of Afghanistan and Herat, through Asiatic Russia, and
along the Caspian, until it reached various places in Russia,
and St. Petersburg itself, and going south westward,
Hamburg, where it occasioned the violent outbreak that
commenced in August of last year, in which 18,000 persons
were attacked, and over 8,000 died. Hamburg has always
been a principal source of danger to this country."
In an interesting address on cholera nurseries, and their
suppression, delivered at the Sanitary Congress, Edinburgh,