The deaths from this epidemic in London, from the 1st of July, 1837, to the 31st of December, 1838, were as follows[374]:
1837 1838 3rd 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter
--a total of 6011 deaths from fever, nearly all typhus, in eighteen months. The worst London parishes were Whitechapel and St Pancras, in which latter the fever-hospital was situated. The high mortality from fever, which had begun before the 1st of July, 1837, continued into the year 1839, when the deaths in London (probably including some enteric) were 1819.
Over all England and Wales, including London, the last six months of 1837 produced 9047 deaths from "typhus," and the twelve months of 1838, 18,775 deaths, the winter of 1837-38 having been the most fatal period. After London, the large towns most affected by the epidemic in the latter half of 1837 were as follows:
Liverpool 524 Manchester } and Salford} 274 Birmingham 75 Bolton 75 Sunderland 72 Leeds 71 Sheffield 68 Bradford 65 Stockport 63 Dudley 54 Abergavenny 53 Wolverhampton 45 Newcastle 44 Wigan 43 Chorley 41 Swansea 36 Halifax 33 Macclesfield 33 Norwich 27
In each of the next two years the number of deaths from typhus in the four largest towns was as follows:
Typhus Typhus deaths deaths in 1838 in 1839
Manchester} and Salford} 627 416 Liverpool 573 358 Leeds 245 150 Birmingham 123 141
From nearly all the registration districts of England and Wales, deaths from fever were returned in 1837-39, so that the contagion must have been very widely spread in town and country[375]. In London the epidemic declined greatly in 1839, but in many parts of England the deaths registered as "typhus" were hardly less numerous than in 1838, and in some country divisions they were more, as if the contagion had taken longer to reach the villages[376]. One village epidemic in North Devon in the latter half of the year 1839 had been observed by Dr W. Budd, afterwards of Bristol: