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werp (May 19). It was in London a little later
(May 28), and later still at St. Petersburg (June 26),
Memel (July 10), Dantzic (July 12), and other
places. In every case, however, the disease was
imported. It came to us with German and Dutch
emigrants from Rotterdam, and was thus brought
to Hull, Liverpool, and London; and it was carried
in like manner to New York.
The mortality returns for the Metropolis, show
that the first deaths from Asiatic cholera in 18(»(i,
occurred at Walworth on the 28th of May. On
the 13th of June another such death was recorded
at Newington; a fortnight later (June 27) two
deaths from it occurred at Bromley; two days after
(June 29) a fifth was returned at Hammersmith;
then a sixth (July 5) in the Borough Road; a
seventh and eighth on July 9th at Hoxton, and
Bermondsey; and during the week which ended
on the 14th of July, there were 48 deaths from the
disease in London, of which 13 were in the eastern
districts of the metropolis. This was the beginning
of the epidemic; for in the next four weeks the
mortality from it quickly rose to 1,169 in the week,
and then it gradually declined. The following are
the weekly returns of cholera deaths in London
and in the City, during the whole of the
epidemic.