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or two cases nurses were supplied. I may state, in the
4th. place, that one of our earliest efforts was to obtain
the use of a suitable building in a central part of the
Parish for a Cholera Hospital. There were many
difficulties in our way; but at length we found two buildings
that might have been available; and I believe that had
the necessity arisen we should certainly have obtained permission
to use one of them. When however the local
epidemic broke out in Stockwell Street, a street which
lies at the very border of our Parish, we were anxious to
acquire, in the immediate neighbourhood of that Street, a
house into which the living might be removed from the
infected houses, and a second house which might be used
as a small Hospital. But we were unable to obtain
one for either purpose. Subsequently a small building
connected with a factory was fitted up as a Hospital for
2 or 3 patients; and a railway arch was boarded up and
converted into a comfortable habitation capable of
holding several families. The former building was never
called into use; and into the latter there was some
difficulty in persuading the inmates of the infected
houses to take up their abode for even a short space of
time. When however the last death from cholera took
place in Stockwell Street, all the remaining inmates of
the infected house were removed there, and (I believe
in consequence of their removal) no further case of cholera
occurred among them.
The returns of cholera and diarrhœa, before referred to,
were sent daily to the Vestry Hall by many of the
Medical Men of the Parish. And it is right to add that