Cholera and the Water Supply

Table IV. — The Inquiry of the General Register Office During the Last Ten Weeks of the Epidemic

Registration District.	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.				Deaths from cholera in last ten weeks of epidemic.	Mortality per 10,000 supplied with water as under.
				By Southwark and Vauxhall Co.		By the Lambeth Company.		Southwark and Vauxhall Co.	Lambeth Co.	From pumpwells.	Supply not ascertained.		Southwark and Vauxhall Co.	Lambeth Co.
				No. of houses.	Estimated Population.	No. of houses.	Estimated Population.
St. Saviour, Southwark	4,600	35,721	7·8	2,631	19,617	1,689	14,201	280	59	0	2	341	143	41
St. Olave, Southwark	2,360	19,375	8·2	2,193	18,638	0	0	186	0	0	23	209	100
Bermondsey	7,007	48,128	6·9	8,402	57,884	268	1,785	555	0	0	0	555	96
St. George, Southwark	6,992	51,824	7·4	3,419	25,039	3,183	23,712	254	79	0	53	386	101	33
Newington	10,458	64,816	6·2	5,224	31,940	5,473	33,531	303	47	1	174	525	95	14
Lambeth	20,447	139,325	6·8	8,077	54,982	11,763	83,786	349	95	9	231	684	63	11
Wandsworth	8,276	50,764	6·1	3,028	18,390	618	3,870	206	6	73	40	325	112	15
Camberwell	9,412	54,667	5·8	4,005	23,472	1,835	10,478	167	24	113	48	352	71	23
Rotherhithe	2,792	17,805	6·4	2,336	14,951	0	0	139	0	11	30	180	93
Greenwich & sub-dis. Sydenham								4	3			7
Houses not identified			6·6	411	2,712	25	165
Totals	72,344	482,435	6·7	39,726	267,625	24,854	171,528	2,443	313	207	601	3,564	91	18