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Again, in the Eastern Division of the City of
London, which adjoins the cholera field, the suspected
water was supplied to 161 houses, with a
population of about 1,732 persons, but, except in
one of these houses (20, Somerset Street), which is
on the boundary of Whitechapel, there was not a
single death from cholera,* and to verify this, I
have obtained the addresses of all the persons who
died in the cholera ward in Bishopsgate Street.
But, besides this, the disease was singularly fatal in
places where the suspected water was never used.
In Crown Court, Blue Anchor Yard, Whitechapel,
where the water supply is from the New River, the
mortality was at the rate of 284 per 10,000. In
Boar's Head Yard, of the same district, which is
also supplied by the New River, the death-rate was
193 per 10,000; and indeed there are eighteen
courts in Whitechapel, where none of the East
London water was used, and yet, out of an aggregate
population of 4,351 persons, there were 30
deaths from cholera, the mortality being at the rate
of 69 per 10,000; that of the whole district being
but 77.
Another such an instance is the case of the
*There were two deaths in this house from cholera, but both were late
in the season; viz.: one in the first week of August, and the second in the
third week.