Site elevated, and distant from First case a woman, river, but very bad as to sanitary and second case a man condition; no water; no drainage; who assisted to carry her badly-constructed and open cesspools, to the grave, and therecontents of one soaking through wall fore had, doubtless, been of house of first case. in the house; both died.

The lodging-house in Bristow's Yard, First case in Bristow's site of renewed outbreak, contained Yard was a vagrant; the three small rooms and a landing-place mistress of the lodgingwithout ventilation of any kind, in house, and five other perwhich 17 persons slept; there is no sons in the same yard. back door, and the cellar, used as a

a wash-house, is the receptacle of
refuse.

The first case a travel

As regards elevation, drainage, supply of water, density of popu-ling tailor-died; 36 lation, and cleanliness, very bad hours later, two children indeed.

First case in close, ill-drained, and dirty neighbourhood; cesspools often annoying.

were attacked, not in the same house, but within 100 yards of it.

Hertford County Nothing in locality to account for Twelve cases in first four Gaol. outbreak. Prison generally healthy; days in the same part of (Dr. Davies.) no open cesspool or drain near prison. the gaol.

St. Albans.

Situation healthy; favourable in (Mr. Lipscombe.) every respect.

First a single case; only single cases occurred.

Cottages detached from each other, and adjoining a lime-kiln.

A cluster of cottages most healthily situated on Box Moor; no drains or offensive matter near.

Locality low, damp, and badly drained; no densely-populated houses; dirty in the extreme, and ill ventilated.

Ill ventilated, thickly tenanted, and dirty houses.

Four cases immediately following each other: first on 23rd August; second a woman in next house, then her husband, and on following day her mother-in-law.

Spot low, ill drained, and dirty; No second case in the an offensive open drain in the neigh-same locality immebourhood.

diately.

In unhealthy neighbourhood, but First case fatal on Aug. itself well drained and ventilated; 13th; second case Aug. well supplied with water and very 20th; third case Aug. clean.

Situation low, and circumstances generally insalubrious.

Average as regards density of population, drainage, and ventilation.

31st; and eight other cases within the nine following days.

No case followed immediately on the first case.

Two boys, a woman

Drainage very defective; houses densely crowded; situation flat; who nursed them, and water-supply bad; houses ill venti- one other person who lated; filth proverbial.

Elevation not bad; no drainage; water-supply bad; population dense; ventilation very bad; cleanliness very defective.

Situation badly ventilated; damp; and water very impure.

came to the house; afterwards, not a house exempt in the locality.

TABLE XII.-continued.

Place and Reporter.

Local Circumstances.

Number of Cases immediately in same locality.

Shrewsbury House of Industry.

Situation very healthy; apartments

Almost simultaneously

ent parts of the asylum.

airy and lofty; house clean and well-11 or 12 cases in differ

(Dr. H. Johnson.) ventilated.

County Prison.

Stockport

Air in courts confined by the high| double walls; otherwise, ventilation good.

In houses of early cases, no ven

No case immediately

tilation; no drainage; filthiness ex-followed the first in the
treme; of first case, site not low; of same locality.
the next, level with the river.

The second was the

Not in a populous district, but not very cleanly; damp and ill ventilated; child of the first patient within six yards of a heap of horse- in the same house; two dung, into which an overflowing other cases within 48 privy was constantly draining. hours, but at some dis

Locality airy and salubrious.

Neighbourhood dirty and crowded; drainage imperfect; cesspools sometimes offensive; supply of water abundant; all cases but one in the insane ward.

A wide open street.

About lowest level of town, within

tance.

A lady; no case followed in the house nor in the town for ten

days.

The first patient died;|

(Mr. J. Rayner.) 100 yards of river; drainage and the second patient, her water very good; population not husband, recovered; a serdense; ventilation and cleanliness vant had diarrhoea,

Hedon

(Dr. Sandwith.)

Leeds.
(Mr. Bearpark.)

Titchmarsh.
(Mr. Williams to
Dr. Burrows.)

Pocklington
(Dr. T. Wilson.)

Wakefield Lunatic
Asylum.
(Dr. Wright.)

Wakefield

(Dr. Wright.)

Wakefield

(Mr. Statten.)

Several open sewers in neighbour- The person from Hull hood of first cases recently cleaned died, and the woman who out and very offensive; other cases nursed her. about same time in healthy localities.

Low, damp, and ill ventilated, The first four cases badly drained, densely populated, and occurred all within 150 dirty. yards during eight days.

Drainage fair; water unexception- First patient and his able; but an offensive smell from offal mother died; wife and in a tub in yard of first patient two daughters were at(Edgson). tacked with diarrhoea, and the nurse died.

Rather close, but not so much so A travelling man, the as many other localities in the town; keeper of the lodgingan open yard, with pigs, privies, and house, and four other drains common to the cottages. persons living in the same range of houses.

Ward clean and well ventilated; Five cases and four one of most healthy in institution, deaths in first ward. but site of building unfavourable as

to drainage and ventilation; damp;

dysentery prevalent.

On elevated ground; supply of A single case in that water good; ventilation and cleanli- neighbourhood; the seness not defective.

First case in proximity of some privies, but they are still unremoved, and no other case has occurred within their influence; some much more offensive depôts of privy soil, &c., lower down same street, and there no cases occurred.

In the ground floor of the Corn Exchange, the man in comfortable circumstances.

cond case occurred three days later in different parts of the town.

Place and Reporter.

SunderlandMonkwearmouth. (Dr. Brown.)

Seaham Harbour. (Dr. Brown.)

Broom Hill, near
Dalkeith.

(Dr. Moir to Dr.
McWilliam.)

South Brent

(Dr. Yonge.)

A

First case on shore: the reputed single case only in sources of the disease were wanting; this house; there had an isolated farm-house. been previous cases Second case: population of colliery amongst the shipping. dense, but sanitary condition by no After a case on the 6th means unusually bad; in various Nov., no other case till parts of the town of Sunderland, the 17th; on the 24th or there was just as much filth.

Houses in a court, ill constructed,

26th the disease became general in the colliery.

The first patient died,

and without thorough ventilation; a and a man who lived with dirty ash-pit very near it.

him was attacked and recovered.

Private house on elevated ground The first patient, a in a considerable inclosure a mile gentleman, and his daughfrom any town.

A lodging-house for vagrants.

An alley containing a slaughter

(Dr. Viner Bea- house, pigsties, and bone deposit.

Tewkesbury

dle.)

ter, and a woman who had visited the house, died.

A vagrant, the mistress of the house, and a lodger.

For more than a month it lingered there, spreading thence over the town.