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| Outline of the history of cholera | 1 | |
| Cases proving its communication from person to person | 3 | |
| Cholera not communicated by means of effluvia | 9 | |
| The pathology of cholera indicates the manner in which it is communicated | 10 | |
| Analysis of the blood and evacuations in cholera 11 and | 14 | |
| Cholera is propagated by the morbid poison entering the alimentary canal | 15 | |
| Evidence of this mode of communication in the crowded habitations of the poor | 17 | |
| —— amongst the mining population | 19 | |
| Instances of the communication of cholera through the medium of polluted water, in Horsleydown | 23 | |
| —— at Albion Terrace, Wandsworth Road | 25 | |
| —— at Ilford and near Bath | 32 | |
| —— at Newburn on the Tyne | 33 | |
| —— at Cunnatore | 35 | |
| —— in the Black Sea Fleet | 36 | |
| —— in the neighbourhood of Broad St., Golden Sq. | 38 | |
| —— at Hampstead West End (the water being carried from Broad Street) | 44 | |
| Explanation of the Map showing the situation of the deaths in and around Broad Street, Golden Square | 45 | |
| Table of attacks and deaths near Golden Square | 49 | |
| Outbreak of cholera at Deptford caused by polluted water | 55 | |
| Communication of cholera by means of the water of rivers which receive the contents of the sewers | 56 | |
| Influence of the water supply on the epidemic of 1832, in London | 57 | |
| Table showing the mortality from cholera, and the water supply | 58 | |
| Influence of the water supply on the epidemic of 1849, in London | 60 | |
| Table showing this influence | 62 | |
| Communication of cholera by Thames water in the autumn of 1848 | 66 | |
| New water supply of the Lambeth Company | 68 | |
| Effect of this new supply in the epidemic of autumn 1853 | 69 | |
| Tables showing this effect 71 and | 73 | |
| Intimate mixture of the water supply of the Lambeth with that of the Southwark and Vauxhall Company | 74 | |
| Opportunity thus afforded of gaining conclusive evidence of the effect of the water supply on the mortality from cholera | 75 | |
| Account of inquiry for obtaining this evidence | 77 | |
| Result of the inquiry as regards the first four weeks of the epidemic of 1854 | 79 | |
| —— the first seven weeks of the same epidemic | 82 | |
| Tables illustrating these results 84, | 85 | |
| Inquiry of the Registrar-General respecting the effect of the water supply of the above-mentioned Companies during the later period of the epidemic | 87 | |
| Comparison of the mortality of 1849 and 1854, in the districts supplied by the above-named Companies | 89 | |
| Effect of the water supply on the mortality from cholera amongst the inmates of workhouses and prisons | 91 | |
| Cholera in the district of the Chelsea Water Company | 93 | |
| Effect of dry weather to increase the impurity of the Thames | 95 | |
| Relation between the greater or less mortality from cholera in London and the less or greater elevation of the ground | 97 | |
| This relation shown to depend on the difference of water supply at different elevations | ib. | |
| Effect of water supply on the mortality of cholera in Birmingham, Leicester, etc. | 98 | |
| —— in Exeter | 99 | |
| —— in Hull | 100 | |
| —— in York | 101 | |
| —— in Dumfries, etc. | 102 | |
| —— in Nottingham and Glasgow | 103 | |
| —— in Paris and Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 104 | |
| Limited inquiry respecting the effect of the water supply at Newcastle | 107 | |
| Assent of the medical profession to the influence of polluted water on the mortality from cholera | 109 | |
| True explanation of this influence | 110 | |
| Answers to certain objections | 111 | |
| Circumstances connected with the history of cholera explained by the principles advocated in this treatise, as,— | ||
| The duration of the epidemic in each place usually bears a direct relation to the number of the population | 115 | |
| The effect of season on the prevalence of cholera | 117 | |
| Proportion of the sexes who die of cholera at different periods of an epidemic, and under different circumstances | 119 | |
| Proportion of deaths from cholera in certain occupations | 121 | |
| Evidence that plague, yellow fever, dysentery, and typhoid fever are communicated in the same way as cholera | 125 | |
| Instances in which ague was caused by impure water | 129 | |
| Measures required for the prevention of cholera and other diseases which are communicated in the same way | 133 | |
| Appendix, containing a list of the deaths from cholera which were registered in the four weeks ending 5th August 1854, together with the water supply of the houses in which the fatal attacks took place, in all the sub-districts to which the supply of either the Southwark and Vauxhall or the Lambeth Water Company extends | 138 | |