By the entries in the Register of Burials, it appears that the deaths were,—males, 14, females, 16; total, 30. One male only died between the ages of 10 and 39. One female only died between the ages of 10 and 45. Two males died upwards of 50 years of age; viz., 53 and 72. Five females died upwards of 50 years of age; viz., 56, 67, 75, 76, and 77. Burials in Plympton St. Mary:— 1831 males, 26 females, 18 total 44 1832 „ 31 „ 31 „ 62 1833 „ 14 „ 18 „ 32 From the 1st of June to the 1st of September:— 1831 males, 4 females, 3 total, 7 1832 „ 20 „ 19 „ 39 1833 „ 4 „ 5 „ 9 The fact that nine out of twelve inmates of the cottage {103} inhabited by Parsons’s family were swept off, under circumstances of a peculiarly aggravated and appalling character, may be attributed to the unfortunate inattention to sanitary precautions, which has already been mentioned. [Picture: The village of Underwood] In consequence of the Board of Health not having been regularly constituted until above a month after the commencement of the disease in the parish, no returns from medical practitioners were received before the 22nd of August; and even after that period, so constantly were those gentlemen occupied, and worn out with fatigue, the returns were very imperfectly supplied. Therefore, a statistical account of cases, dates of seizure and recovery, cannot here be attempted. It must, therefore, suffice to state, that between 200 and 300 in this parish were more or less affected with the disease; and in Underwood alone, about 200. The proportion of deaths, in cases which had advanced into the second or cold stage before medical assistance had been obtained, was about one out of three. In the foregoing Extracts, only a portion of the cases of confirmed cholera are mentioned; omitting those which are termed incipient. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the attention of every one, that if the atmosphere surrounding houses is corrupted by the effluvia of stagnant water in pools and ditches, unwholesome sewers, choked drains, or any accumulation of filth—if badly ventilated rooms are crowded with an excess of occupants—if the diet is low and unwholesome, and the habits of the people are dirty, particularly if they are addicted to drunkenness and dissipation,—diseases of various kinds are engendered as a natural consequence; therefore, under such circumstances, what can be expected during a visitation of an extraordinary epidemic like that of cholera, but its baneful effects, and those of a most aggravated and appalling character.