ABSTRACT
This chapter details a report on the Sanitary Condition of the Epidemic Districts, with special reference to the threatened Visitation of Epidemic Cholera. It details the sanitary condition of the affected localities during the epidemic of 1849. ‘Cholera and Diarrhœa have been very prevalent within the last fortnight in the neighbourhood of the Church-lane and the courts adjoining, particularly in Kennedy’s-court, in which there is a nest of seven houses, crowded and dirty, with only one privy, and the drainage defective. In the Report of the Parochial Sanitary Committee of St. Giles and Bloomsbury complain that they have neither funds nor administrative powers ‘to make extensive alterations, improvements, and police regulations’ in relation to the dwellings of the poor. In forming an estimate of the present sanitary condition of St. Giles district in reference to the probable approach of Asiatic cholera, its local features must be taken into account.
