The dotted line on the map surrounds the sub-districts of Golden Square,
St. James’s, and Berwick Street, St. James’s, together with the
adjoining portion of the sub-district of St. Anne, Soho, extending from
Wardour Street to Dean Street, and a small part of the sub-district of
St. James’s Square enclosed by Marylebone Street, Titchfield Street,
Great Windmill Street, and Brewer Street. All the deaths from cholera
which were registered in the six weeks from 19th August to 30th
September within this locality, as well as those of persons removed into
Middlesex Hospital, are shown in the map[10] by a black line in the
situation of the house in which it occurred, or in which the fatal
attack was contracted.
In addition to these the deaths of persons removed to University College
Hospital, to Charing Cross Hospital, and to various parts of London, are
indicated in the map, where the exact address was given in the “Weekly
Return of Deaths,” or, when I could learn it by private inquiry.
The pump in Broad Street is indicated on the map, as well as all the
surrounding pumps to which the public had access at the time. It
requires to be stated that the water of the pump in Marlborough Street,
at the end of Carnaby Street, was so impure that many people avoided
using it. And I found that the persons who died near this pump in the
beginning of September, had water from the Broad Street pump. With
regard to the pump in Rupert Street, it will be noticed that some
streets which are near to it on the map, are in fact a good way removed,
on account of the circuitous road to it. These circumstances being taken
into account, it will be observed that the deaths either very much
diminished, or ceased altogether, at every point where it becomes
decidedly nearer to send to another pump than to the one in Broad
Street. It may also be noticed that the deaths are most numerous near to
the pump where the water could be more readily obtained. The wide open
street in which the pump is situated suffered most, and next the streets
branching from it, and especially those parts of them which are nearest
to Broad Street. If there have been fewer deaths in the south half of
Poland Street than in some other streets leading from Broad Street, it
is no doubt because this street is less densely inhabited.
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