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proper condition. The second group occurred at No. 6,
Charles Street, Melon Ground. Here a baker, his wife
and child, died of cholera on the 23rd, 25th and 27th
July respectively. In this case the premises were not
drained, the portion of the Parish in which they are
situated not being at that time sewered; water however
was supplied by one of the water companies. The third
group of cases was that which occurred in Stockwell
Street. The first case of this series was that of a boy
who died on the 16th August, at 9, Little Stockwell Street.
The second fatal case (that of a garden labourer, aged 31)
occurred at 10, Stockwell Street, on the 24th. On the
26th and 27th respectively a woman and her child
(who had removed since the 24th from No. 10)
died at 14, Stockwell Street; and on the 30th, another
death took place at No. 10. On the 29th and 31st
respectively, 2 deaths took place at 9, Stockwell
Street. On September 5th, a woman died at 2, Little
Stockwell Street; on the 8th, a child died at 7, Stockwell
Street; and on the same day, one at No 9; lastly,
on the 18th, a woman died at No. 2. Stockwell Street
comprises about 40 four-roomed houses, occupied and
for the most part over-crowded, by Irish labourers and
their families. The houses were generally in bad sanitary
condition, but they were all more or less perfectly
drained, and were all supplied with water from
the Kent Water Works. It will be observed that the
disease, and the mortality which it occasioned, were limited
almost exclusively to the occupants of some 3 or 4 houses.
The fourth group occurred at Foster's Buildings, Neate