Transcribed from the 1849 Lavis edition . Many thanks to the British Library for making their copyavailable.
A LETTER
TO THE
PARISHIONERS OF FULHAM.
BYTHE
REV. R. G. BAKER, M.A.
VICAR.
SOLD BYLAVIS, FULHAM; WILSON, WALHAM GREEN;
BARKER, NORTH END
1849.
Price Fourpence.
p. 2LONDON:
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREETHILL.
p. 3ALETTER
TO THE
PARISHIONERS OF FULHAM.
FulhamVicarage,
29th Oct. 1849.
My dear Parishioners,
The Cholera has visited Fulham thesecond time. When it prevailed in 1832, it was alwaysunderstood that two deaths only in this parish were to be tracedto that fearful pestilence as their cause. But in the nineweeks closing on the 8th instant, not only had the mortalityexceeded fourfold the average of the same period for the fivepreceding years, but in this unusual number of 127 deaths, nofewer than 56 were certified to the registrar, by the medicalpractitioners who attended the cases, as having arisen fromcholera. In 35 instances, the previous illness did notexceed twenty-four hours; and in 18 of them, it was less thantwelve hours.
There is another striking circumstance which attended ourrecent visitation. Of the deaths p. 4registered within this short and fatalperiod, it is recorded that
11 | occurred between the ages of | 5 | and | 10 | years. | |
9 | ditto | ditto | 10 | ,, | 20 | ,, |
9 | ditto | ditto | 20 | ,, | 30 | ,, |
12 | ditto | ditto | 30 | ,, | 40 | ,, |
12 | ditto | ditto | 40 | ,, | 50 | ,, |
5 | ditto | ditto | 50 | ,, | 55 | ,, |
58 | ||||||
Thus it appears that 58 of these deaths, a number not farremoved from one moiety of the whole, occurred within those ageswhich are commonly considered the least susceptible