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CONTENTS.
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Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the City 7
,, ,, in each district of the City 8
Death-rate of City compared with that of other cities 9
Ages at Death 10
Causes of Death 11
REPORT ON THE CHOLERA OF 1866.
Its route from the East compared with that of former visitations 12
Its first appearance in London and other Continental Cities in 1866 14
Weekly Account of Deaths in London and in the City 15
Mortality per 10,000 of Population in various Cities 17
„ ,, in former Epidemics 18
Death-rate per 100 persons attacked 19
Effects of Sanitary Operations in the Death-rate 20
Local Habits of the Disease 21
Effects of Elevation on the Death-rate 22
Effects of Poverty „ 25
Effects of Personal Habits ,, 26
Pettenkofer's Theory of the Local Causes of the Disease 27
Hypothesis that the Water Supply was Polluted 27
The alleged Pollution an improbable assumption 28
Dates of the Outbreak in different Districts, opposed to the HypothesiS 30
Complete immunity of numerous places using the Water, opposed to it 31
Large Mortality in places not using the Water, opposed to it 32
Statement of all the Facts opposed to the Water Hypothesis 33
Review of the most important Facts of the several Visitations of Cholera
in 1832, 1848, 1854, and 1866 35