History of Sanitation

HISTORY OF SANITATION 99 Date Number of Fatal Attacks Deaths August 29 . . • 1 1 August 30 . • • 8 2 August 31 56 4 September 1 ... 143 70 September 2 116 127 September 3 54 76 September 4 46 71 September 5 36 45 September 6 20 37 September 7 28 32 September 8 12 30 September 9 11 24 September 10 5 18 September 11 5 15 September 12 1 6 September 13 3 13 September 14 0 6 September 15 ... 1 8 September 1(5 4 6 September 17 2 5 September 18 3 2 September 19 0 3 September 20 0 0 September 21 2 0 September 22 1 2 September 23 1 3 September 24 1 0 September 25 1 0 September 26 1 2 September 27 ... 1 0 September 28 0 2 September 29 0 0 September 30 0 0 Date unknown 45 0 616 616 In addition to the original and general inquiry con- ducted from the time of the outbreak by Dr. Snow, the Rev. H. Whitehead, M. A., curate of St. Luke’s in Ber- wick Street, and like Dr. Snow, a member of the Cholera Inquiry Committee, whose knowledge of the district both before and during the epidemic, owing to his official posi- tion, gave him unusual advantages, made a most elaborate and painstaking house-to-house investigation of one of the principal streets affected, viz., Broad Street itself. The Rev. H. Whitehead’s report, like that of Dr. Snow, ■■