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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera · John Snow — chapter 18 of 68 · ~287 words · public domain

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Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 194, Tooley Street, Aug. 5th, the son of a railway porter, aged 16 months, “cholera”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

ST. OLAVE, SOUTHWARK. St. John, Horsleydown.

At 8, Charles Street, July 20, a carman, aged 42, “diarrhœa 3 days, Asiatic cholera 22 hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At 19, Bermondsey St., July 26, a labourer’s daughter, aged 5 yrs., “cholera Asiatica 4¹⁄₂ hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At 4, Abdy Street, on 29th July, a corn-turner, aged 60, “Asiatic cholera, with premonitory diarrhœa, 18 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 12, Bermondsey Street, July 29, a railway porter, aged 34, “malignant cholera 12 hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At 5, Gibbon’s Rents, July 29, wife of a railway porter, aged 39, “malignant cholera 16 hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At 18, Parish Street, July 29, a carpenter’s labourer, aged 19, “diarrhœa 4 days, cholera 3 days”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At the Union Workhouse, on 30th July, a labourer, aged 40, “Asiatic cholera 24 hours”; admitted with cholera from 4, Bethel Place, Vine Yard

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At the Union Workhouse, on 31st July, an apprentice to the sea, aged 16, “Asiatic cholera 36 hours”; admitted with cholera from on board ship

Most likely Thames water.

At 5, Bethel Place, July 30, the wife of a corn-turner, aged 35, “Asiatic cholera 4 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At the same house, Aug. 1, daughter of a corn-turner, aged 1 year, “Asiatic cholera 3 days”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 8, Gibbon’s Rents, Aug. 1, the wife of a carpenter, aged 32, “Asiatic cholera 12 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 6, Gordon Terrace, on 1st August, the daughter of a coal-porter, aged 2 years and 7 months, “Asiatic cholera 4 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

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