In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
-- Henry Mayhew
   
Henry Mayhew   Name:
Henry Mayhew
Type:
Journalist
Nationality:
English
Birth:
November 25, 1812
Death:
July 25, 1887
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