Annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages in England. v. 29 suppl., 1866, Volumen29Great Britain General Registrar Office, 1868 |
Términos y frases comunes
acres aged Asiatic cholera attacked August Battersea Bethnal Green carbolic acid Chelsea Cholera and Diarrhoea cholera occurred Cholera was fatal choleraic diarrhoea daily deaths by cholera deaths from cholera deaths occurred deaths registered died of cholera disease disinfected drainage East London East London Company East London Water Elevation End Old Town epidemic of 1849 feet Females filter beds gallons George-in-the-East Grand Junction Greenwich Hackney Hospital houses impure inhabitants inspectors Islington Islington West July Kent labourer Lambeth last death Lea Bridge London City London Company Males Marylebone Medical Officer medical visitors Mile End Mile End Old months mortality from cholera Newington November number of deaths October Officer of Health Old Ford parish persons Population pumps quantity Registrar Report river Lea Rotherhithe sanitary September sewage sewers South Southwark street sub-districts Thames Water Company water supply Waterworks Weekly Return West Ham West Middlesex Whitechapel wife Woolwich Woolwich Dockyard workhouse
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Página 105 - ... 4. From and after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, every company shall effectually filter all water supplied by them within the metropolis for domestic use, before the same shall pass into the pipes for distribution...
Página 100 - First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (River Thames).
Página 106 - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, enclosing a copy of a letter from Mr.
Página 300 - Battersea 2,443 persons it was ascertained died from cholera in the same time. The deaths in the latter districts exceeded by nearly 2,000 the deaths that would have occurred if cholera had only been as fatal as it was in the houses that derived their water from Ditton.
Página 89 - The people are falling ill every hour ; you see them of all ages, children and adults, lying about their beds like people under the influence of a deadly poison ; some acutely suffering, nearly all conscious of their fate and of all that is going on around them. Here the doctor is drawn in by the husband to see the wife now attacked ; there the husband lies in spasms ; here is an old woman seated dead with eyes wide open ; there lies a fine four-year old child, his curly head drooping in death, but...
Página 106 - Furnace, or other Work in which Coals which produce Smoke during Combustion shall be consumed by any Company for the Purpose of the Waterworks shall be constructed on the most effectual Principle for consuming its own Smoke.
Página 119 - London is divided into 37 districts. Six are supplied from Old Ford, and every one has been ravaged by this epidemic. The other 31 districts have for six weeks in succession suffered slightly. The 37 districts are subdivided into 135 sub-districts ; 21 are supplied with the same water, and have all suffered six weeks in succession; 115 sub-districts have suffered inconsiderably, except in St. Botolph and a few other districts, where the same water has crept in, and the mortality is partially swollen....
Página 292 - ... chiefly to the crowded dwellings of the poor, and would be continually liable to die out accidentally in a place, for want of the opportunity to reach fresh victims; but there is often a way open for it to extend itself more widely, and to reach the well-to-do classes of the community; I allude to the mixture of the cholera evacuations with the water used for drinking and culinary purposes, either by permeating the ground, and getting into wells, or by running along channels and sewers into the...
Página xiii - Groombridge family, the mc'ilieiil attendant, and a woman who laid out their servant, were killed by cholera in the last days of September and the first days of October. Nothing remarkable was observed in London until the year following, on Wednesday, July lllh, when five deaths by cholera occurred ; on the 12th and on the two following days II, 20, and 15 persons died.
Página xvi - ... by two grains, and seventeen flowers by a single grain, and of these one flower alone in each lot perfected its seed: and it deserves especial notice that the plants produced by these two seeds never attained their proper dimensions, and bore flowers of rema'rkably small size.