[33.] Hansard, 1848, vol. xcvi. p. 392.
[34.] “Vested rights in crowded houses, deadly stenches, putrid water, foggy courts, and cesspools.” See “Health by Act of Parliament,” Household Words, 1850, vol. i.
[35.] P.P. 1850, vol. xxi. p. 42.
[36.] P.P. 1850, vol. xxi. p. 110.
[37.] In London in 1832–3 (population 1,682,000), the attacks were 14,144, the deaths were 6,729. 1848–9 (population 2,206,000), the attacks were about 30,000, the deaths about 14,600, so that in the last epidemic the deaths were more numerous than the attacks in 1832–3, whilst the attacks were more than double.
[38.] Dr. Grainger, P.P. 1849–50, vol. xxi.
[39.] P.P. 1850, vol. xxi. p. 147.
[40.] This was rendered illegal by the amended City Sewers Act of 1851.
[41.] See P.P. 1854–5, vol. x., General Report of Medical Council.
[42.] Simon, 1st Report, 1849.