┌──────────────────────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐ │ │ Number of │Deaths from │ Deaths in │ │ │ houses. │ Cholera. │each 10,000 │ │ │ │ │ houses. │ ├──────────────────────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │Southwark and Vauxhall Company│ 40,046│ 1,263│ 315│ │Lambeth Company │ 26,107│ 98│ 37│ │Rest of London │ 256,423│ 1,422│ 59│ └──────────────────────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘ The mortality in the houses supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company was therefore between eight and nine times as great as in the houses supplied by the Lambeth Company; and it will be remarked that the customers of the Lambeth Company continued to enjoy an immunity from cholera greater than the rest of London which is not mixed up as they are with the houses supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company. As regards the period of the epidemic subsequent to the 26th August to which my inquiry extended, I have stated that the Registrar-General requested the District Registrars to make a return of the water supply of the house of attack in all cases of death from cholera. Owing to difficulties such as I explained that I had met with in the beginning of my inquiry, the Registrars could not make the return in all cases, and as they could not be expected to seek out the landlord or his agent, or to apply chemical tests to the water as I had done, the water supply remained unascertained in a number of cases, but the numbers may undoubtedly be considered to show the correct proportions as far as they extend, and they agree entirely with the results of my inquiry respecting the earlier part of the epidemic given above. The Registrar-General published the returns of the water supply, which he had obtained from the District Registrars, down to 14th October, in a table which is subjoined. As the whole of the south districts of London were included in the inquiry of the Registrar-General, the deaths in the Greenwich and Lewisham districts, which are supplied by the Kent Water Company, and did not enter into my inquiry, are included in the table, but they do not in the least affect the numbers connected with the other companies. =TABLE X.=