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London, England, 1850-01-31 00:00:00

less than it would have
ha_d
locked
th_...eir
coffers against preventive measures, and confined
their attention exclusively to burying the dead, and
districts.l s
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providing for the dependent survivors the dyad,
effects
of crowding are shown in North Witchford in the
sub district of Chatteris the deaths in the quarters,
December, 1845-9, were 33, 39, 41, 42, 73 ; in the
last quarter the tenements were crowded by labour-
ers on the river works. Sanitary improrements
have, it is said, been made at Cambridge.
IV. EASTERN DIVISION.—The deaths in the fire
corresponding quarters of 1845-9 were 4,525, 6,118,
Th 4,674, 5,033, 5,753, in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk.
e excess was greatest in Vest Ham, Romford,
Witham, Woodbridge, Yarmouth, end Norvvieh.
Cholera was noticed in West Ham, Chipping Ongar,
Rochrord union-house, Lowestoffe, and Norwich.
Scarlatina and low fever prevailed in several low
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shire, than it was in the corresponding quarter of
1848. Snall-pox prevailed in many districts where
vaccination ha-1 been neglected. Scarlatina P reva I,d
in Heavitree, where is "great destitution among
labouringtopulation from want of labour." There the
were
2 deaths from cholera in St. Sid well, 13 in St. David,
Exeter (the last on Oct. 30) ; and 18 from dsnterr ,
in the Exeter workhouse. After the cholera( of the
summer had extended over England end smitten
many thousands of the population in all unbeel•aly
places—partial outbreaks followed in autumn,
dike
the distant peals of thunder after a hurricane.
The
epidemic lingered in parts of Devon, Cornwaii, arid
S )mersetshire, and broke out fatally in 'Taunton workhouse and in Bridgwater. The deaths in Bridg-
water from all causes were 318; which is nearly at
the rate of 4 per cent. per annum of the population.
Cholera prevailed in Plymouth through October ;
fever in Bath.
VI. WEST MIDLAND DIVISIONo•—•The mortality
was lower than the average in Gloucestershire, Here-
fordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire; higher
than the average in taffordshire and Warwickshire.
Scarlatina was rife in parts of Shropshire and War-
wickshire. Several cases of cholera were fatal over
Staffordshire. The deaths in Birmingham were
1,036, in Coventry 349, in Worcester 143, Stafford
115, Shrewsbury 122.
VII. NORTH MIDLAND DIVISION.—The mortality
in Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, and Nottinghamshire) was above, of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire below
the average of the season. The mortality was below
the average in Lincoln and Nottingham. The mor-
tality was the average in the Basford district, where
were several cases of cholera as well as in Newark.
VIII. Noarn-WESTERN Divrsrore.—The morta-
lity in Cheshire and Lancashire is considerably
below the average. Scattered cases of cholera oc-
curred over the counties—chiefly in October. The
deaths in Liverpool and West Derby were 2,681, in
Manchester and Salford 2,415. The registrar of
Howard-street, Liverpool, says the sub-district is,
depopulated one-half from various causes ; no deat;os
from cholera occurred in the Manchester workhouse,
containing 1,300 inmates.
IX. YORK DIVISION.—The mortality was above
the average in the West Riding ; below the average
in the East and North Ridings. Cholera broke out
in Knaresborough with some severity, and doubled
the deaths in the sub •district. The epidemic cholera
October. Bradford
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reor le
field was comparatively healthy. Hull suffered hea-
vilyfatalsuffered Leeds
from cholera in the summer, and lost some in-
habitants in October, but the last two months
of the year were healthy. In Rillington only four
out of 4,000 inhabitants died from any cause in the
three months.
X. NORTHERN DIVISION.--The mortality of Dur-
ham and Northumberland was above., of Cumber-
land about, of Westmoreland below, the average.
The cholera epidemic terminated in many of the dis-
tricts of Durham at the beginning of the quarter;
the epidemic broke out at Bedlington in November,
and killed on the hill-side 26 people in a short time.
There is a want of drainage. Cholera also raged in
Alnwick.

XI. WELSR Divisrox.—The mortality was some-
what above the average in Wales; chiefly from
cholera and scarlatina. In Merthyr-Tydfil the scene
of the great tragedy in summer, the deaths were 470.
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