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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera · John Snow — chapter 21 of 68 · ~293 words · public domain

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Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 5, John Place, on 1st August, a leather-dresser, aged 54, “Asiatic cholera 22 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 16, Marine Street, on 2nd August, the wife of a labourer, aged 51, “cholera 30 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 2, Metcalf Court, on 1st August, the son of a labourer, aged 2 years and 6 months, “measles 14 days, diarrhœa 1 week, cholera 2 days”

Beg Southwark and Vauxhall water from neighbours.

At 3, Frederick Place, on 2nd August, a cooper, aged 40 years, “Asiatic cholera”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 5, Somerset Place, on 2nd August, the daughter of a labourer, aged 3 years, “diarrhœa 18 hours, cholera 12 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At Mill Street, on 3rd August, the wife of a master tin-plate worker, aged 27 years, “diarrhœa 4 hours, cholera 16 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 14, Gedlin Terrace, 31st July, the son of a carman, aged 4 yrs., “malignant cholera 13 hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

BERMONDSEY. St. Mary Magdalen.

At 13, Abbey Street South, July 25, a trotter-cleaner, aged 18 years, “cholera 16 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 2, Long Walk, on 26th July, the son of a labourer, aged 2 yrs., “diarrhœa choleraic 15 hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At 2, Providence Place, on 28th July, the wife of a leather-dresser, aged 56, “diarrhœa 4 hours, cholera 20 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 3, Providence Place, on 28th July, the wife of a currier, aged 58, “diarrhœa 3 hours, cholera 18 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 13, Willow St., on 2nd Aug., the daughter of a warehouseman, aged 4 yrs., “cholera morbus”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

At 14, Fendall St., Aug. 4, the son of a leather-dresser, aged 5 yrs., “Asiatic cholera 10 hours”

Southwark & Vauxhall.

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