London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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total number of deaths on each day of the week
is as follows:—
| Number of deaths on 8 Sundays | 593 |
| „ „ „ Mondays | 597 |
| „ „ „ Tuesdays | 616 |
| „ „ „ Wednesdays | 712 |
| „ „ „ Thursdays | 665 |
| „ „ „ Fridays | 572 |
| „ „ „ Saturdays | 607 |
| Total in 8 weeks | 4,362 |
But difficult as the problem is, to determine
the exact value of the several circumstances which
influence the severity of the disease, and especially
those which give to it its marked local intensities,
enough has been ascertained to indicate its general
habits, and to show that it fixes itself at low levels
in proximity to tidal rivers, among dense populations,
that are living in ill-constructed houses, that
are filthy, badly ventilated, badly drained, and
generally defective of sanitary provisions; and the
inference is that the actual agent of cholera, be it