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. 2018 Mar 30:77–99. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2

Table 5.1.

Deaths From Cholera Epidemic in Districts of London Supplied by Two Water Companies Over 7 Weeks, 1854

Water Supply Company Number of Houses Deaths From Cholera Cholera Deaths per 10,000 Houses
Southwark and Vauxhall 40,046 1,263 315
Lambeth 26,107 98 37
Rest of London 256,423 1,422 59

Source: Snow J. On the mode of transmission of cholera. London: John Churchill, 1855, pp. 55–98. Part 3, Table IX, Reprinted by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health 2001. Available at: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowbook3.html (accessed 26 June 2016).