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150,000 inhabitants; and after
winding its way through another
fatal footpath of the Cholera field,
it becomes disembogued at Ratcliff
Cross, another centre of wailing
and lamentations during the epidemic.
3. There arc two more large
sewers emptying themselves at
Shad well and at Wapping, but as I
only wish to call attention to the
worst part of the sewerage of the
Limehouse District, I shall omit any
further reference to the rest. In
doing this, however, it is as well to
press a point or two of importance,
that is, where these characteristic
black spots are in the map, indicating
the locality where the first fatal
cases occurred in North Street and
elsewhere, within 200 yards are to
be found 8 ventilating shafts of the
great Limehouse sewer, and 11
gully gratings, the latter of which,
though commonly trapped, yet in
dry hot weather, from the great
evaporation going on, soon become
useless; ventilating shafts and gully
gratings alike vomiting forth deadly
vapours, gases, and pestilence
around in an epidemic season.
4. These two great sewers, after
receiving the sewage of from 300
to 400,000 people, the effluvia
necessarily accumulating, within