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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 22, 1848

Page

5

Cholera and Death Toll Across London in October Week

The Registrar General reports 991 total deaths in the week ending the 14th, including 30 cholera deaths across London districts such as the London Hospital Aldgate St George's in the East and Woolwich Arsenal. Additional notes cover scattered cases in Edinburgh Sunderland and dispatch of prison ships while authorities tighten quarantine and report weather impacts on disease spread.

London Hospital Aldgate St. George's Bermondsey Lambeth Wool Wich Arsenal Greenwich Unité Thames Royal Arsenal Arsenal St. Olave Tooley Street Chelsea South Cholers Bethnal Green Buy Sitalfelde St. John’s St. Olave's Cholera Meligne St. James Rotherhithe St. Paul's Deptford Clapham Eastern Porte Baltic Brnwixauaw John Cheetham Bank of Messrs. Attwood and Spooner Cheetham Wright Chavasse Blake George Street Edgbaston Triemoore Isabella London Jarrow Wallant Quay Sunderland Schooler Roberts Aberdeen Borasees Nantes Stockrox Teza Thia Hamburg Tees Edinburgh Newhaven Leith Abbey Hill Calton Street Canongate Clyde Street Cowgate Grassmarket Heriot Place South St James's Street St. Cuthbert’s Peorhouse Greenside Row Pleasances Tobago Street West Port Board of Health Council Office Order of the Sth Hare General Dispensary Aldersgate Street Metropolitan Police General Board of Health Billingsgate Milbank Wheatley Devonshire Street Kennington Cross Home Office Justitia Wye Beaumont York Plymouth East Stonehouse Ware Isle of Portland Sanderland Thorndey Eeactien Geners Board of Health Nowhaven

Increased Demand for the Police Force in Westminster Parish

Vestry discussions at St James's Westminster on extending time for the increased police demand payment. Debates cover totals of £8790 11s 8d, potential further charges, and legality of extra levies. The meeting urged counsel input and possible equity grounds against the increased levy.

St Jamen’s Westminster J. Jackson Buzzard Ray Metropolitan Police Ventry Marylebone St. Pancras Churchwarden Geesin St. James’s George Grey Home Office Sir George Middlesex T. A'Beckett Miles Miley A' Beckett Frederick Byng

Train crashes through flooded bridge near Canterbury

In forty eight hours of heavy rain the Stour rose washing away the bridge supports on the South Eastern line near Canterbury. A luggage train ran onto the arch as it collapsed, engine and vans plunged, but no passengers were aboard. Workers, ambulances, and telegraphs coordinated relief as replacements ferried travelers to the next station. The disaster halted rail traffic until the bridge could be rebuilt. Lord Melbourne's health improves, and notices about other officials and France’s grain export prohibition follow.

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Orchard Place Court Then and Now in a Dense District

A 19th century analysis details Orchard place as a 45 by 8 yard block housing 27 cottages with 217 families and 882 people in 1845, later swelling to 476 families and 1,222 individuals. It notes high adult population and common disease risk, urging better housing for public health, as well as noting wealthy nearby obliviousness to the squalor. It also critiques a Privy Council quarantine decree on cholera as outdated and harmful to commerce, arguing Europe mostly abandoned cholera quarantines and England should scrap the measure.

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Meeting on Bow common nuisances in Mile End Old Town

In Mile End Old Town a morning meeting at the Town house discussed nuisances from Bow common lane manufactories and other parish sites. A deputation to the Board of Health was planned to seek powers and action to remove health hazards.

Mile End Old Town Mile End Road Bow Common Lane Alfred Head Corchwarden Horton New Southwood Smith Board of Health Hammock Bow Common Jales Francis Bromley Finch H. Rendall H. Roberts Do Waii

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