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being successively 14, 32, 346, 904, and 1053. The
epidemic had then attained its height; and during the
next 5 weeks it diminished almost as remarkably as it had
previously increased; the weekly deaths from it being
consecutively 781, 455, 265, 198, 157. During the next
7 weeks (including the last 3 weeks of September, and the
4 weeks of October) the mortality from cholera presented
but little weekly variation, the deaths for each successive
week being respectively 182, 150, 177, 182, 207, 144,
and 112. In the course of November the epidemic
gradually left us; during the four weeks terminating
within this month the deaths fell from 73 to 67, from 67
to 82, and from 32 to 8. A few cholera-deaths were
still registered throughout December; but the numbers
were so trifling as to render it extremely doubtful whether
any of them were dependent on the influence of the true
choleraic poison.
Altogether 5563 persons died of cholera in London,
from the commencemeut of June until the end of December.
During the same period 2861 persons were cut off by
diarrhoea. (See Tables I. and II.)
The late epidemic pressed with very different degrees
of severity on the different parts of the metropolis.
Indeed, it can only be said to have been really severe in
the Eastern districts In them it originated as an epidemic
disease, and it attained in them gigantic proportions, while
there was still but little of it elsewhere in London ; of the
total number of cholera deaths given above, no less than
3925 occurred in this section of the metropolis. Indeed