Lecture on the Sanitary Condition of Chorlton upon Medlock, by John Hatton, M.R.C.S., L.S.A.

Includes plan (20×33cms.) showing sewers, unhealthy districts, fever cases, deaths from fever, cholera cases, deaths from cholera, fever ward in Chester St., and house in which first case of cholera appeared; section and elevation of three storey back to back houses with cellars; details of families in twenty cellars, 7 Oct 1849 (mostly Irish names); table showing number of houses, population; residences of patients treated by the Chorlton Dispensary and Union, 1847-51, annual percen of deaths, total number of fever, diarrhoea and dysentery, scarlet fever and measles, 1847-1851, and total number of cases of cholera treated under the Union, 1848-1849; total deaths, 1847-1851, with number of houses, population, annual average and annual percent of deaths; deaths in specific streets from fever, smallpox, diarrhoea and dysentery, 1847-1851, cholera deaths per street, 1847-1851; causes of death in specific streets, 1847-1851; deaths under five years old; number of persons relieved and cost, 1847-51; number of ashpits requiring draining and other nuisances per street, 31 Dec 1853; number of back to back houses per street; streets and courts where privies face houses; streets and courts requiring draining; overcrowded houses per street 'occupied by a low class of Irish, who are known to live together in large numbers', number of houses with privies under sleeping rooms.