The Registrar-General published the returns of the water supply, which he had obtained from the District Registrars, down to 14th October, in a table which is subjoined. As the whole of the south districts of London were included in the inquiry of the Registrar-General, the deaths in the Greenwich and Lewisham districts, which are supplied by the Kent Water Company, and did not enter into my inquiry, are included in the table, but they do not in the least affect the numbers connected with the other companies.
TABLE X.
| Week ending. | Deaths from Cholera. | Water Supply. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwk. and Vauxhall. | Lambeth. | Kent Company. | Pumps, and other sources. | Not ascertained. | ||
| September 2. | 670 | 399 | 45 | 38 | 72 | 116 |
| „ 9. | 972 | 580 | 72 | 45 | 62 | 213 |
| „ 16. | 856 | 524 | 66 | 48 | 44 | 174 |
| „ 23. | 724 | 432 | 72 | 28 | 62 | 130 |
| „ 30. | 383 | 228 | 25 | 19 | 24 | 87 |
| October 7. | 200 | 121 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 46 |
| „ 14. | 115 | 69 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 29 |
| 3920 | 2353 | 302 | 191 | 279 | 795 | |
Now 2,353 deaths in 40,046 houses, the number supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company, are 537 deaths to each 10,000 houses; and 302 deaths to 26,107, the number of houses supplied by the Lambeth Company, are 115 deaths to each 10,000 houses; consequently, in the second seven weeks of the epidemic, the population supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company continued to suffer nearly five times the mortality of that supplied with water by the Lambeth Company. If the 795 deaths in which the water supply was not ascertained be distributed equally over the other sources of supply in the above table (No. X), the deaths in houses supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company would be 2,830, and in houses supplied by the Lambeth Company would be 363. By adding the number of deaths which occurred in the first seven weeks of the epidemic, we get the numbers in the subjoined table (No. XI), where the population of the houses supplied by the two water companies is that estimated by the Registrar-General.[[16]]
TABLE XI.
| Population in 1851. | Deaths by Cholera in 14 wks. ending Oct 14. | Deaths in 10,000 living. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 2,362,236 | 10,367 | 43 |
| West Districts | 376,427 | 1,992 | 53 |
| North Districts | 490,396 | 735 | 14 |
| Central Districts | 393,256 | 612 | 15 |
| East Districts | 485,522 | 1,461 | 30 |
| South Districts | 616,635 | 5,567 | 90 |
| Houses supplied by Southwark and Vauxhall Company | 266,516 | 4,093 | 153 |
| Houses supplied by Lambeth Company | 173,748 | 461 | 26 |
We see by the above table that the houses supplied with the water from Thames Ditton, by the Lambeth Company, continued throughout the epidemic to enjoy an immunity from cholera, not only greater than London at large, but greater than every group of districts, except the north and central groups.
In the next table (No. XII), the mortality from cholera in 1849 is shown side by side with that of 1854, in the various sub-districts to which the supply of the two water companies with which we are particularly interested extends. The mortality of 1854 is down to October 21, and is extracted from a table published in the “Weekly Return of Births and Deaths” of October 28; that of 1849 is from the “Report on Cholera” by Dr. Farr, previously quoted. The sub-districts are arranged in three groups as before, the first group being supplied only by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company, the second group by this Company and the Lambeth, and the third group by the Lambeth Company only. It is necessary to observe, however, that the supply of the Lambeth Company has been extended to Streatham, Norwood, and Sydenham, since 1849, in which year these places were not supplied by any water company. The situation and extent of the various sub-districts are shown, together with the nature of the water supply, in Map 2, which accompanies this work.
TABLE XII.
| Sub-Districts. | Deaths from Cholera in 1849. | Deaths from Cholera in 1854. | Water Supply. |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Saviour, Southwark | 283 | 371 | Southwark & Vauxhall Company only. |
| St. Olave | 157 | 161 | |
| St. John, Horsleydown | 192 | 148 | |
| St. James, Bermondsey | 249 | 362 | |
| St. Mary Magdalen | 259 | 244 | |
| Leather Market | 226 | 237 | |
| Rotherhithe[[17]] | 352 | 282 | |
| Wandsworth | 97 | 59 | |
| Battersea | 111 | 171 | |
| Putney | 8 | 9 | |
| Camberwell | 235 | 240 | |
| Peckham | 92 | 174 | |
| Christchurch, Southwark | 256 | 113 | Lambeth Company, and Southwark and Vauxhall Compy. |
| Kent Road | 267 | 174 | |
| Borough Road | 312 | 270 | |
| London Road | 257 | 93 | |
| Trinity, Newington | 318 | 210 | |
| St. Peter, Walworth | 446 | 388 | |
| St. Mary, Newington | 143 | 92 | |
| Waterloo Road (1st) | 193 | 58 | |
| Waterloo Road (2nd) | 243 | 117 | |
| Lambeth Church (1st) | 215 | 49 | |
| Lambeth Church (2nd) | 544 | 193 | |
| Kennington (1st) | 187 | 303 | |
| Kennington (2nd) | 153 | 142 | |
| Brixton | 81 | 48 | |
| Clapham | 114 | 165 | |
| St. George, Camberwell | 176 | 132 | |
| Norwood | 2 | 10 | Lambeth Company only. |
| Streatham | 154 | 15 | |
| Dulwich | 1 | ||
| Sydenham | 5 | 12 | |
| First 12 sub-districts | 2261 | 2458 | Southwk. & Vauxhall. |
| Next 16 sub-districts | 3905 | 2547 | Both Companies. |
| Last 4 sub-districts | 162 | 37 | Lambeth Company. |