. Preventive medicine and hygiene. reet well, and only in a few cases was it impossible to traceany connection with that source. Thus, with regard to 73 deaths occur-ring in the locality of the pump and studied especially with referenceto this point, it was found that there were 61 instances in which the *The complete original report is entitled Report on the Cholera Outbreakin the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the Autumn of 1854. Presentedto the Vestrv by the Cholera Inquiry Committee, July, 1855. London, , 1855. SPECIFIC DISEASES DUE TO WATEE 927 deceased persons used t
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. reet well, and only in a few cases was it impossible to traceany connection with that source. Thus, with regard to 73 deaths occur-ring in the locality of the pump and studied especially with referenceto this point, it was found that there were 61 instances in which the *The complete original report is entitled Report on the Cholera Outbreakin the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the Autumn of 1854. Presentedto the Vestrv by the Cholera Inquiry Committee, July, 1855. London, , 1855. SPECIFIC DISEASES DUE TO WATEE 927 deceased persons used to drink the water from the pump in BroadStreet, either constantly or occasionally. In 6 instances no informationcould be obtained, and in 6 cases it was stated that the deceased personsdid not drink the pump water before their illness. On the other hand, Dr. Snow discovered that, while a workhouse(almshouse) in Poland Street was three-fourths surrounded by housesin which cholera deaths occurred, out of 535 inmates of the workhouse. ASIATIC CHOLERA AMD the: broad street pumr LONDON 1654. I» ® LOCATION OF PUMPS. • • LOCATION OF FATAL CHOLERA CASES . BOUnOAHY or EQUAL OlSTAnCES 8ETWEEJ BROAD STREET PUMP AMDOTHER PUMPS. (AFTER THE ORIGINAL MAP BY OR. JOHn SNOW.) Fig. 114. only 5 cholera deaths occurred. The workhouse, however, had a well of its own in addition to the city supply, and never sent for water to the Broad Street pump. If the cholera mortality in the workhouse had been equal to that in its immediate vicinity it should have had 50 deaths. A brewery in Broad Street employing seventy workmen was entirely exempt, but, having a well of its own, and allowances of malt liquor having been customarily made to the employees, it appeared likely that the proprietor was right in his belief that resort was never had to the Broad Street 928 WATEE AXD ITS EELATIO¥ TO DISEASE It was quite otherwise in a cartridge factory at Xo. 38 Broad Street,where about 200 workpeople we
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