Part 40

In the so-called secondary fever there is toxicohæmia, arising from suppressed excretion by the kidneys.

Footnote 6:

See “London Gazette”, 18th Sept. 1849.

Footnote 7:

See Report in “Med. Gaz.”, vol. ii, 1849, p. 429.

Footnote 8:

Edin. Med. and Sur. Jour., vol. xxxvii.

Footnote 9:

Scot, “Report on the Epidemic Cholera”, p. 237.

Footnote 10:

The particulars of each death connected with this outbreak were published in the “Weekly Returns” of the Registrar-General to 16th September, and I procured the remainder through the kindness of the Registrar-General and the District Registrars.

Footnote 11:

The deaths are obtained from the “First Report of the Metropolitan Sanitary Commission”, 1847; and the water supply, chiefly from a work entitled “Hydraulia”, by William Matthews, 1835.

Footnote 12:

A small part of the Whitechapel District is supplied with New River water.

Footnote 13:

A Microscopic Examination of the Water supplied to London. London: 1850.

Footnote 14:

P. 207. In the table at page 206, Dr. Baly has fallen into the mistake of supposing that the Lambeth Water Company obtained their supply from Thames Ditton in 1849. It was not till 1852 that their works were removed to that place. Dr. Baly has also mistaken the name and identity of all the three Companies which supply the south districts of London with water.

Footnote 15:

A part of Rotherhithe was supplied by the Kent Water Company; but there was no cholera in this part.

Footnote 16:

Weekly Return, Oct. 14, p. 433.

Footnote 17:

A small part of Rotherhithe is now supplied by the Kent Water Company.

Footnote 18:

In 1849, there were forty-eight deaths from cholera in Millbank prison, amounting to 4·3 per cent. of the average number of prisoners. In Tothill Fields prison there were thirteen deaths among eight hundred prisoners, or 1·6 per cent. The other prisons on the north side of the Thames are supplied either by the New River Company, or from pump-wells, and there was but one death from cholera in all of them; that death took place in Newgate.

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