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belong to the district. At Lye-in-the-Waste^ in the 
parish of Old Swinford, the disease was very severe, 
hut the state of destitution and privation of the people 
in this district, assimilated them to the town popula- 
tion. These deaths are reported as occuring at Stour- 
bridge, which is in the parish of Old Swinford. 
TABLE 
SHEWING THE NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM CHOLERA, 
TOGETHER WITH THE POPULATION OF EACH TOWN OF THE COUNTY, 
RESPECTIVELY. 
Town. 
Worcester City and Suburbs, . . 
Dudley, 
Stourbridge, with Old Swinford, 
Kidderminster, 
Bromsgrove, 
Stourport, 
Bewdley,^ 
Droitwich, 
Pershore, 
Evesham, and Bengeworth,^ . . . . 
Upton-on-Severn, 
Tenbury, 
Redditch, 
Population. 
27,518. 
23,043. 
12,658. 
17,913. 
8,612. 
2,952. 
3,908. 
2,487. 
2,336. 
3,991 . 
2,343. 
1,768. 
3,627. 
Deaths from Ratio of Deaths 
Cholera, to Population. 
..77. 
277. 
..68. 
102. 
..18. 
..13. 
,.16. 
..63. 
. 2. 
,38. 
1 to 357 
1 to 83 
1 to 186 
1 to 175 
1 to 478 
1 to 227 
1 to 244 
1 to 39 
1 to 389 
1 to 362 
1 to 61 
1 to 884 
1 to 95 
Total Deaths from Cholera in the County, 729. 
Ratio of Deaths from Cholera to the total Population of Worcestershire, 1 to 289. 
^ For a very accurate Summary of the Cases of Cholera at Bewdley, I am 
indebted to the kindness of my friend Mr. Fryer, and I have given it in an 
appendix. 
2 It is worthy of notice that the Cholera did not attack Evesham in the year 1832, 
but made its appearance there in September 1833, and did not spread to any other 
part of the county. 
