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should be at the rate of £1 4s. each per week. The following gent emen
were appointed, viz :
Mr. Hatch, for the district of St. Leonard's
„ Strong, ditto Hoxton Old Town
,, Morgan, ditto Haggerstone East
„ Aston, ditto Hoxton New Town
„ Berry, ditto Holywell
„ Aylwin, ditto Haggerstone West
That such assistant medical visitors, under the instructions of the
medical officer, had made a house to house visitation, and had reported
every place requiring sanitary improvements.
That such cases had been copied for the use of the inspectors into a
book, provided for that purpose, and the necessary sanitary improvements
were being carried out.
That medical visitors made daily reports to the medical officer of health
of the new cases of diarrhoea, choleraic diarrhoea, and cholera, attended
by them. These reports supplied information as to the localities where
disease arose, as well as of the extent to which it prevailed. These reports
were summarised weekly in the form of tables, which were printed.
The first report gave the sickness-returns for the week ending on the
12th August. The last for the week ending on the 21st October, when
the services of the district medical visitors were discontinued. During
these eleven weeks, the medical visitors attended to 7,449 cases of diarrhoea,
806 cases of choleraic diarrhoea, and 148 of cholera. Many
cases applied directly to the dispensaries and many were discovered by
the assistant medical visitors in the course of their house to house
visitations, and thus received immediate care.
During the interval from the 7th July to the 10th November, namely
18 weeks, which includes the entire period of prevalence of the epidemic,
170 deaths from cholera, including choleraic diarrhoea were registered.
This number includes, not only the deaths registered in Shoreditch,
but also the deaths of persons attacked in Shoreditch and removed to