Transcribed from the 1849 Lavis edition by David Price. Many thanks to the British Library for making their copy available.
A LETTER
TO THE
PARISHIONERS OF FULHAM.
BY THE
REV. R. G. BAKER, M.A.
VICAR.
SOLD BY LAVIS, FULHAM; WILSON, WALHAM GREEN;
BARKER, NORTH END
1849.
Price Fourpence.
LONDON:
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
A LETTER
TO THE
PARISHIONERS OF FULHAM.
Fulham Vicarage,
29th Oct. 1849.
My dear Parishioners,
The Cholera has visited Fulham the second time. When it prevailed in 1832, it was always understood that two deaths only in this parish were to be traced to that fearful pestilence as their cause. But in the nine weeks closing on the 8th instant, not only had the mortality exceeded fourfold the average of the same period for the five preceding years, but in this unusual number of 127 deaths, no fewer than 56 were certified to the registrar, by the medical practitioners who attended the cases, as having arisen from cholera. In 35 instances, the previous illness did not exceed twenty-four hours; and in 18 of them, it was less than twelve hours.