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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera · John Snow — chapter 38 of 68 · ~314 words · public domain

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Same as above.

At 5, John’s Place, July 25, the son of a baker, aged 4 years, “cholera 24 hours”

Same as above.

At 89, Adam Street, on the 28th July, the widow of a blacksmith, aged 36 years, “diarrhœa 24 hours, cholera 16 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 5, King St., July 29th, the wife of a labourer, aged 40, “cholera 2¹⁄₂ days”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At Charlotte Place, Charlotte Row, July 29, the son of a barge-builder, aged 3 years, “cholera 3 days”

Tidal ditch.

At 5, Slater’s Alley, July 29, a labourer, aged 33, “cholera 3¹⁄₂ days”

Thames Tunnel water, fetched from John’s Place.

At 18, Upper Queen Street, Aug. 2, the daughter of a labourer, aged 7 years, “cholera 2 days, typhoid fever 7 days”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 1, Thetford Place, August 1, the son of a labourer, aged 7 years, “cholera 7 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

On board ship in the Surrey Canal Dock, August 2, a mariner, aged 65, “Asiatic cholera 18 hours”

Most likely Thames Water.

On board the brig “Borcas”, of Sunderland, in the river Thames, Aug. 2, the wife of a master mariner, aged 38, “cholera 13¹⁄₂ hours”

Most likely Thames Water.

At 20, Spread Eagle Court, Aug. 1, a labourer, aged 28, “cholera 16 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 7, Midway Pl., Aug. 1, the daughter of a domestic servant, aged 3 years, “measles 14 days, Asiatic cholera 18 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 12, St. Helena Pl., Aug. 1, the wife of a carpenter, aged 31, “morbus cordis 5 years, Asiatic cholera 24 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At 18, Stanley Terrace, August 1, the son of a mercantile clerk, aged 2 years, “premonitory diarrhœa 3 hours, Asiatic cholera 5 hours”

Southwark and Vauxhall.

At York St., near Swan Lane, Aug. 1, the son of a carpenter, aged 3 yrs., “cholera 12 hours”

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