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turns of cases of cholera attended by the Medical
Officers of the East and West London Unions,
show that the proportion of deaths to attacks was
singularly small. Compared in fact with the mortality
in other places it stands thus:—
Death from Cholera per 100 persons attacked in the
Epidemic of 1865-66.
East London Union 15.8
West London Union 25.0
Cholera Ward, Bishopsgate 28.1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 48.8
Cholera Hospital, Whitechapel 54.0
London Hospital 54.9
Hospitals, Dublin 54.7
Ditto Paris 51.6
Ditto Ancona 57.1
In the Epidemic of 1854, the deaths in England
were 45.2 per cent. of those attacked, and in that
of 1848 the deaths in different cities were as
follow:—London 48.7 per cent.; Hamburg 47.8;
St. Petersburg 65; and Berlin 65.5.
Who therefore can doubt, considering the proximity
of the City to the very focus of the epidemic
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