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undoubtedly display that malignant power with which
past experience has made us familiar. Some of those
conditions are always present amongst us, and manifest
their operation by occasionally giving rise to isolated
or grouped cases of cholera. An unusual number of
such cases have been observed during the summer. A
remarkable outbreak occurred at West Ham, in which
seven persons were destroyed. And even now although
the summer heat has subsided, individual cases break
out in various parts of the metropolis.
To what extent the district of Shoreditch has been
placed in a position to resist the next invasion, by the
considerable sanitary improvements effected within the
last eighteen months, it would be presumptuous to
speculate.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
ROBERT BARNES, M.I).
13, Devonshire Square,
21st October, 1857.