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"To the Sanitary Committee of St. James's,
Westminster.
"Gentlemen,
"At your request, I beg to by before you
"a Report on the cases of English Cholera, to
"which the Medical Officer to the Privy Council
"called my attention on the 4th of July, end whose
"letter I read to the Vestry on July 5th.
"After receiving that letter I lost no lime in
"visiting No. 20, New Street where the cases
"occurred. This house is the St James's Model
"Home, and consists of sit sets of rooms, each
"set intended to accommodate one family.
"The rooms in which the cases of Cholera
"occurred are numbered 4, end are on the first
"floor on the side next to the premises lately occu"pied
as cow houses. On waiting the rooms I
"found them occupied by a tailor's porter, who, with
"his wife and six children, occupied the rooms.
"The two children who died had been ill since
"Christmas when they had the measles. The
"eldest was six years old, the youngest was two.
"The latter had been ill with diarrhœa for a week.
"On Friday the children had fish for dinner, and
"on Saturday they had bacon and eggs and ate part
"of a pound of cherries. They also ate on Saturday
"and Sunday some coarse sweetmeats. Another
"child besides those who died ate the sweetmeats