Besides the general result shown in the table, there are some particular
facts well worthy of consideration. In 1849, when the water of the
Lambeth Company was quite as impure as that of the Southwark and
Vauxhall Company, the parish of Christchurch suffered a rather higher
rate of mortality from cholera than the adjoining parish of St. Saviour;
but in 1853, whilst the mortality in St. Saviour’s was at the rate of
two hundred and twenty-seven to one hundred thousand living, that of
Christchurch was only at the rate of forty-three. Now St. Saviour’s is
supplied with water entirely by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company, and
Christchurch is chiefly supplied by the Lambeth Company. The pipes and
other property of the Lambeth Company, in the parish of Christchurch,
are rated at about £316, whilst the property of the Southwark and
Vauxhall Company in this parish is only rated at about £108. Waterloo
Road, 1st part, suffered almost as much as St. Saviour’s in 1849, and
had but a single death in 1853; it is supplied almost exclusively by the
Lambeth Company. The sub-districts of Kent Road and Borough Road, which
suffered severely from cholera, are supplied, through a great part of
their extent, exclusively by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company; the
supply of the Lambeth Company being intermingled with that of the other
only in a part of these districts, as may be seen by consulting the
accompanying map (No. 2). The rural districts of Wandsworth and Peckham
contain a number of pump-wells, and are only partially supplied by the
Water Company; on this account they suffered a lower mortality than the
other sub-districts supplied with the water from Battersea Fields. In
the three sub-districts to which this water does not extend, there was
no death from cholera in 1853.
[Illustration: MAP 2.]
[Sidenote: THE NEW WATER SUPPLY OF THE LAMBETH COMPANY.]
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