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In the Cholera-epidemic of 1849, the deaths from
this disease amounted to 61.9 per 10,000 living, and in
1854 to 42.7. In 1849 Diarhœa destroyed 17.1 per
10,000, in 1854, 12 5.
Analysing the mortality and causes of death of the
different districts of London, we equally fail to find
that proximity to the river is injurious. I borrow the
following facts from a paper by the late Dr. Snow. In
the years 1850 and 1851 the mortality of metropolitan
Surrey, which lies near the river, was considerably above
that of the rest of the metropolis, being 18 per 1000
in 1850, and l.5 per 1000 in 1851. In 1852, when a
part of the water-supply had been improved, the mortality
still remained greater than in the rest of the
metropolis, but to a less extent than in the previous
two years, only exceeding by 1.2 per 1000. In the first
half of 1853, the mortality of metropolitan Surrey
exceeded that of the rest of London by only .4 per
1000, or, at the rate of .8 per 1000 per annum When
the account of the mortality is resumed in 1855, after
the Cholera had passed away, the mortality of metropolitan
Surrey is still above that of the rest of London in
the two first quarters of the year; but on the 22nd of
July, the Southwark and Vauxhall Company drew their
supply from Hampton. Then the whole district had an
improved supply. Then for the first time, the mortality
of this division falls in that very quarter below the
mortality of the rest of the town. It remained below