Plan Shewing the Ascertained Deaths from Cholera in part of the Parishes of St. James, Westminster and St. Anne, Soho during the summer and autumn of 1854.

inGeneral Board of Health, Medical Council, Appendix to Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in Relation to

the Cholera-Epidemic of 1854 (London: HMSO, 1855), No. 14, after 322.

“This Map is . . . founded on the Map published in Mr. Cooper’s Report to the Commissioners of Sewers; but St. Anne’s Court and the neighbourhood have been added to it, and the fatal attacks which occurred in the district throughout the whole epidemic have been inserted in their respective localities where these could be accurately determined” (Cholera Inquiry Committee, Report on the cholera outbreak in the parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854 (25 July 1855), ii).

“It is believed that the record of the map is as accurate as it is possible to make it, having been prepared with the greatest of care from the Registrar General’s Returns, from personal inquiries on the spot, sub-sequently verified by comparing the result of such inquiries with that of investigations made under the direction of parochial authorities [the Cholera Inquiry Committee for the parish of St. James, Westminster]. . . . Mr. [John] Marshall has discovered, at the Craven Estate Office, the exact position of the pest field. It is delineated on the map, as well as the spot where the Commissioners of Sewers erroneously represented it to have been situated” (Fraser, Hughes, and Ludlow, in Appendix to Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries, 322).