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On the 27th July, the grandfather of the children who imported the diseases
from Mile End, fell a victim to the malady.
On the 23rd July, a woman who had been to Stepney, to visit a married
daughter suffering from Cholera, and having washed linen for her, came
home to Somers Town, and died in two days. In this house, in Ossulston
Street, two children subsequently died on the 6th August; from them their
grandmother, who waited on the children, but lived in the next street, contracted
the disease, and died on the 11th August; her son, occupying the same
room with her, died the next day. From that date, there were only two deaths
from Cholera until the 4th September, when a vagrant pauper, of very
drunken habits, died in University College Hospital, The next well marked
case occurred in Eedhill Street, also in a very intemperate man, who died on the
8th September. The next day, a fatal case occurred for the first time in the
Tottenham Court District, in the person of a female, living at 14, Cumberland
Street, Goodge Street; on the following day, her mother died; and on the 13th,
a sister; and on the 21st, a woman occupying the kitchen of the same house,
fell a victim after two days' illness.
From this date, until the last week of October, cases of the disease were
constantly occurring, scattered over the entire parish.
The fatal cases from the commencement to the end of the Epidemic, were
thus distributed amongst the sub-districts, referring the deaths in Hospitals, to
the place from which they came:—
Eegent's Park 25
Tottenham Court 15
Grays Inn Road 8
Somers Town 33
Camden Town (or 11 excluding Workhouse
and vagrant wards) 13
Kentish Town 18
Eelatively to every 10,000 of the population, the several sub-districts
suffered as follows, placing them in the order of their comparative freedom from
the disease:—Grays Inn Road, 2.9; Kentish Town, 2.9; *Camden Town. 5 1;
Tottenham Court Eoad, 5.2; Eegent's Park, 6.6; Somers Town, 8.4.
All the cases of Cholera that came to my knowledge in St. Pancras, are here
referred to their several streets and districts:—
Regent's Park,—25 deaths.
Albany Street, one death.
32, Brook Street, 2 cases—one death.
1 and 6, Cumberland Street West, 2 cases—one death.
9, Eden Street, one death.
8 and 9, Upper Fitzroy Place—4 fatal cases at No. 8; 2 fatal cases at No. 9.
40, Henry Street, one death.
5 and 79, Hampstead Eoad, 3 cases—two deaths.
7 and 13, Mary Place, 5 cases—two deaths.
Mornington Crescent, one death (a case imported from Brussels).
21, Netley Street, one death.
4, Palace Yard, one death.
*In this calculation, the Workhouse is excluded.