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Street. There had been several cases of diarrhœa (of which
one had proved fatal) in this locality; and on the 1st and 7th
November respectively, two children of one family died of
cholera at No. 6. The houses in Foster's Buildings had
water laid on, were well drained, and in fair sanitary
condition. The fifth group was that of which one case
only appears in our own returns. It occurred at 5,
Oxford Terrace, Lyndhurst Road, in a house perfectly
well drained, and supplied with water, situated in a
salubrious part of the Parish, and in the neighbourhood
of which there had not been any previous appearance of
cholera. On the morning of the 12th November, a baby
which had been ailing with diarrhoea was found dead in
its bed. It had died of cholera. During the next 2 or 3 days
the mother and 2 of her children were attacked with the
same disease, and removed to Guy's Hospital, where on
the 17th and 18th November they all died. Four surviving
children were, on the 15th, removed to the Workhouse,
where in the course of a day or two, 2 were seized with
symptoms of cholera, from which however they recovered.
Of the total number of cholera-deaths registered in
Camberwell, 11 occurred in the Camberwell sub-district,
15 in that of St. George's, and 20 in that of Peckham.
Dulwich escaped. I may add that of 54 fatal cases of
diarrhoea, 8 were returned from Camberwell, 22 from St.
George's, and 24 from Peckham. (See Tables III. and IV)
in my report to the Vestry on the 6th of June, in
anticipation of the advent of cholera, I recommended that
an additional inspector should be temporarily appointed.