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sufficiently large to excite the fear that an epidemic of the
disease was impending over the Parish But this period had
already elapsed before the Vestry Meeting (convened in
obedience to the directions of the order in council) had
taken place And indeed by the time the committees had
assumed active duties, the daily returns of cholera and
diarrhoea shewed clearly that there was little diarrhoea and
less cholera in any part of the Parish; and the visits of
the Inspectors of Nuisances had proved that, even in the
localities in which deaths from cholera had occurred, there
was no tendency to spread of disease.
The outbreak of cholera in Stockwell Street rendered
it necessary to request Dr. Simpson, who had already
been nominated, to assume active duties as Medica
Visitor for No. 4 ward. His services commenced on
August 16th, before the disease had become epidemic in
the Street, and were continued until October 8th, a
considerable time after the epidemic had disappeared.
Further, since, while cholera was prevailing in Stockwell
Street, 2 or 3 other isolated cases of the disease appeared
in some of the lower neighbourhoods of the same ward, an
assistant visitor was appointed whose services were continued
for a period of three weeks.
Shortly after the formation of the committees, the
committee of No. 5 Ward appointed (as all the committees
had been empowered to do by the Vestry) a special inspector
for the sanitary purposes of their own ward. There were
thus from the 13th August four Inspectors of Nuisances,