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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera · John Snow — chapter 19 of 68 · ~319 words · public domain

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At the Union Workhouse, on 1st August, a slater, aged 56, “Asiatic cholera 24 hours”; admitted with cholera from 4, Magdalen Court, Tooley Street

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At the Union Workhouse, on 3rd August, the wife of a labourer, aged 30, “Asiatic cholera 4 days”; admitted with cholera from 4, Bethel Pl., Vine Yd.

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At 22, Magdalen Street, Aug. 1, a single woman, aged 53, “cholera 24 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 3, Freeman’s Lane, on 2nd August, a labourer, aged 25, “premonitory diarrhœa, with sickness, 24 hours; Asiatic cholera 9 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 2, Charles Street, July 30, the widow of a hatter, aged 62, “cholera 11 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 4, Charles Street, Aug. 4, a female, aged 45, “diarrhœa 7 days, English cholera 12 hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

BERMONDSEY. St. James.

On board the ship “Ouse”, off Bermondsey, July 9, a mariner, aged 50, “cholera 16 hours”

Most likely Thames water.

At 5, Gibson’s Cottages, on 18th July, the son of a chair-marker, aged 5 years, “choleraic diarrhœa 2 days, collapse 1 day”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 4, Bermondsey Wall, on 23rd July, the daughter of a bookseller, aged 4 years, “cholera 9 hours”

Thames water, by dipping a pail in the river.

At 4, Bermondsey Wall, July 24, a sawyer’s daughter, aged 3 yrs., “cholera 20 hours”

Thames water, by dipping a pail.

At 9, Pleasant Row, July 25th, the wife of a labourer, aged 55, “chronic disease of liver 2 years, choleraic diarrhœa 16 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 10, Marine Street, on 24th July, a mate, mariner, aged 34, “Asiatic cholera 101 hours, after choleraic diarrhœa 16¹⁄₂ hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 10, Marine Street, on 24th July, a mariner, aged 27, “Asiatic cholera 13 hours, after premonitory diarrhœa 2¹⁄₂ hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 4, Bermondsey Wall, July 27, a sawyer, aged 62, “cholera 32 hours”

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