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donkeys are kept there. The privies have, until quite recently,
been at the rate of 1 to 58 inhabitants; now they are 1 to 36
inhabitants. They are untrapped, and without water; for if
trapped they become at once stopped up, and the metal parts of
the water-supply apparatus are soon stolen and taken to the
rag-shops. The drain traps suffer the same fate. As the privies
are at a distance from most of the houses, the slops are thrown
upon the foot-way, which they keep in a wet and foul state,
being mixed up with the refuse of vegetables.
In most of the instances, which were isolated and scattered,
the poison of the disease had been imbibed and brought home
by the sufferers; nothing particular being observable about the
houses or apartments, beyond the general want of attention to
cleanliness which is so often found among the poorer classes.
So far we have considered the Cholera in regard to the
District of Clerkenwell; we will now see how the mortality
which occurred there stands in comparison with that of other
districts of the Metropolis.