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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of]
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| Districts. | Cholera Deaths per 10,000 (1849,1854, and 1866). | Average Elevation above Trinity high water (feet). |
|---|---|---|
| Islington | 11.1 | 94 |
| Hackney | 13.2 | 53 |
| Clerkenwell | 13.3 | 65 |
| Kensington | 23.9 | 40 |
| St. George's, Hanover Square | 21.1 | 34 |
| Mean | 16.7 | 57 |
| St. Giles | 39.9 | 68 |
| Shoreditch | 46.7 | 48 |
| Bethnal Green | 57.3 | 38 |
| Whitechapel | 68.6 | 32 |
| St. George's-in-the-East | 49.7 | 21 |
| Mean | 52.2 | 41 |
How far the intemperate habits of individuals
may be concerned in intensifying the disease, and
provoking its attacks is hardly discoverable; but it
does seem that the mortality from it among those
who were members of provident and temperance
societies was much below the average; and a very
remarkable fact presents itself when we classify
the deaths from cholera in 1866 according to the
days of the week, namely that much the largest
mean mortality occurred in the middle of the week,
on Wednesdays, and the smallest on Fridays—as if
the disease grew in severity from Sunday to Wednesday
and then gradually declined. The actual