Cholera and the Water Supply

Table I — Shewing the Results of the Author’s Personal Inquiry in Twenty-One Sub-Districts

Registration Districts.	Registration Sub-Districts.	Number of inhabited houses in 1851.	Population in 1851.	Estimated constant population per house.	“Number of houses, and estimated number of persons, supplied in 1854 with water as under.”				Water supply of the houses in which fatal attacks of cholera took place during first seven weeks of epidemic of 1854.					Deaths from cholera in first 7 weeks of epidemic of 1854.	Mortality per 10,000 supplied with water as under.
					By Southwark and Vauxhall Co.		By the Lambeth Company.		Southwark and Vauxhall Co.	Lambeth Co.	Thames, canals, or ditches.	From pumpwells.	Supply not ascertained.		Southwark and Vauxhall Co.	Lambeth Co.
					No. of houses.	Estim. Population.	No. of houses.	Estim. Population.
St. Saviour, Southw.	1. Christchurch	1,887	16,022	8·5	343	2,915	1,557	13,234	11	13	0	0	1	25	37·7	9·9
St. George, Southw.	1. Kent Road	2,558	18,126	7·1	1,779	12,630	563	3,997	52	5	0	0	0	57	41·1	12·5
	2. Borough Road	2,069	15,862	7·7	1,176	8,937	878	6,672	61	7	0	0	3	71	68·2	10·4
	3. London Road	2,365	17,836	7·5	383	2,872	1,533	11,497	21	8	0	0	0	29	73·1	6·9
Newington	1. Trinity	3,224	20,922	6·5	1,661	10,132	1,372	8,370	52	6	0	0	0	58	51·3	7·1
	2. St. Peter, Walworth	4,925	29,861	6·1	2,340	14,274	1,758	10,724	84	4	0	0	2	90	58·8	3·7
	3. St. Mary	2,309	14,033	6·1	489	2,983	899	5,484	19	1	0	1	0	21	64·5	1·8
Lambeth	1. Waterloo, part 1	1,729	14,088	8·1	438	3,548	1,474	11,939	9	1	0	0	0	10	25·6	0·8
	2. Waterloo, part 2	2,191	18,348	8·4	864	7,171	1,510	12,533	25	8	2	1	0	36	34·8	6·3
	3. Lambeth church, pt. 1	2,451	18,409	7·5	415	3,113	2,117	15,878	6	9	1	0	2	18	19·2	5·6
	4. Lambeth church, pt. 2	3,849	26,784	7·0	1,124	7,868	2,289	16,023	34	13	0	1	5	53	42·9	8·1
	5. Kennington, part 1	3,977	24,261	6·1	2,586	15,775	444	2,708	63	5	0	3	0	71	39·9	18·4
	6. Kennington, part 2	3,288	18,848	5·7	1,206	7,874	986	5,620	34	3	0	1	0	38	43·2	5·7
	7. Brixton	2,362	14,610	6·1	310	1,922	1,509	9,356	5	2	0	0	2	9	26·0	2·1
	8. Norwood	600	3,977	6·6	0	0	160	1,066	0	2	5	1	0	8		18·7
Wandsworth	3. Wandsworth	1,522	9,611	6·3	144	907	15	94	1	0	8	2	0	11	11·0
	4. Putney	918	5,280	5·7	13	74	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
	5. Streatham	1,419	9,023	6·4	0	0	515	3,244	0	1	0	5	0	6		3·0
Camberwell	1. Dulwich	259	1,632	6·3	0	0	4	25	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4. St. George	2,845	15,849	5·6	767	4,295	971	5,437	30	9	0	2	1	42	69·8	16·5
Lewisham	5. Sydenham	801	4,501	5·6	0	0	unkno.	unkno.	0	1	0	2	1	4
Totals		47,548	317,883	6·6	16,038	107,290	20,554	143,901	507	98	16	20	17	658	47·2	6·8