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place, Camberwell, occupies an intermediate, but comparatively
low, position. The same holds good of the combined
mortality from cholera and diarrhoea.
The first fatal case of cholera in the Parish of Camberwell
occurred on the 13th July, at 60, Waterloo Street.
This was in the week ending Saturday, July 14th, when
the number of cholera-deaths in London amounted to 32.
In the next week (that ending July 21st) 7 deaths were
ascribed to cholera in Camberwell. This was the week
in which the cholera-mortality in London amounted to
346. In the week ending July 28th, the deaths from
cholera in Camberwell, were 9 in number. During the
same week there were 904 cholera-deaths registered in the
whole of London. In the next week, during which cholera
attained its height in London, there were only 3 deaths
from this disease in our Parish. And in the next 3 weeks
severally one only. In the week ending September the
1st, there were 5 deaths from cholera; in that ending
September 8th, 4; in that ending September, 15th, 4; in
that ending September 29th, 2; in that ending October
6th, 3; in that ending October 13th, 1; in that ending
November 3rd, 1; in that ending November 10th, 2; and
in that ending November 17th, 1. Since which time there
have been no deaths from cholera, (See Tables III and
IV.
It is not presented that the above enumeration represents
all the cases of cholera which occurred in the Parish;
but it is as accurate a list as possible of all the cases that
proved fatal. Yet even in this sense it must not be taken