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November the epidemic practically left us;
during the four weeks terminating within this
month the deaths fell from 73 to 67, from
67 to 32, and from 32 to 8. A few Cholera
deaths were still registered throughout Dec."
" Altogether 5,563 persons died of Cholera
in London from the commencement of June
until the end of December. During the same
period 2,861 persons were cut off by diarrhoea.
"The late epidemic pressed with very
different degrees of severity on the different
parts of the metropolis. Indeed, it can only be
said to have been really severe in the Eastern
districts. In these it originated as an epidemic
disease, and it attained in them gigantic
proportions, while there was still but little
of it elsewhere in London ; of the total number
of Cholera deaths given above, no less than
3.925 occurred in this section of the metropolis.
Indeed had it not been for the remarkable
outburst of the disease in these districts, lasting
with intensity for a period of five or six
weeks, the weekly mortality in London from
Cholera would scarcely in any week of the
epidemic have exceeded 200, and would in
most weeks have been considerably less."