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St Giles (Camberwell) 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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at 60, Waterloo Street. This was in the week
ending Saturday, July 14th, when the Choleradeaths
in London amounted to 32, In the next
week (that ending July 21st) 7 deaths were
ascribed to Cholera in Camberwell. This was
the week in which the Cholera mortality in
London amounted to 346. In the week ending
July 28th the deaths from Cholera in Camberwell
were 5 in number. During the same
week there were 904 Cholera-deaths registered
in the whole of London. In the next week,
during which Cholera attained its height in
London, there were only 3 deaths from this
disease in our parish ; and in the next three
weeks severally one only. In the week ending
Sept. 1st, there were 5 deaths from Cholera;
in that ending Sept. 8th, 4; in that ending
Sept. 15th, 4; in that ending Sept. 29th, 2;
in that ending Oct. 6th, 3; in that ending
Oct. 13th, 1 ; in that ending Nov. 3rd, 1 ; in
that ending Nov. 10th, 2 ; and in that ending
Nov. 17th, 1.
J. S. BRISTOWE.
July 24th, 1883.