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—— in the Black Sea Fleet 36

—— in the neighbourhood of Broad St., Golden Sq. 38

—— at Hampstead West End (the water being carried from Broad Street) 44

Explanation of the Map showing the situation of the deaths in and around Broad Street, Golden Square 45

Table of attacks and deaths near Golden Square 49

Outbreak of cholera at Deptford caused by polluted water 55

Communication of cholera by means of the water of rivers which receive the contents of the sewers 56

Influence of the water supply on the epidemic of 1832, in London 57

Table showing the mortality from cholera, and the water supply 58

Influence of the water supply on the epidemic of 1849, in London 60

Table showing this influence 62

Communication of cholera by Thames water in the autumn of 1848 66

New water supply of the Lambeth Company 68

Effect of this new supply in the epidemic of autumn 1853 69

Tables showing this effect 71 and 73

Intimate mixture of the water supply of the Lambeth with that of the Southwark and Vauxhall Company 74

Opportunity thus afforded of gaining conclusive evidence of the effect of the water supply on the mortality from cholera 75

Account of inquiry for obtaining this evidence 77

Result of the inquiry as regards the first four weeks of the epidemic of 1854 79

—— the first seven weeks of the same epidemic 82

Tables illustrating these results 84, 85

Inquiry of the Registrar-General respecting the effect of the water supply of the above-mentioned Companies during the later period of the epidemic 87

Comparison of the mortality of 1849 and 1854, in the districts supplied by the above-named Companies 89

Effect of the water supply on the mortality from cholera amongst the inmates of workhouses and prisons 91

Cholera in the district of the Chelsea Water Company 93

Effect of dry weather to increase the impurity of the Thames 95

Relation between the greater or less mortality from cholera in London and the less or greater elevation of the ground 97

This relation shown to depend on the difference of water supply at different elevations ib.

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