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the circumstances it is surprising that even more have not been stricken.
It is supposed that a boy who was suffering from Enteric Fever used
this water-safe tray, and so infected the urine in the pipe.
A very interesting fact about these cases is that they illustrate the
possibility of urine being a means of propagating Enteric Fever, a
circumstance which was once denied, but which in the light of recent
investigations must now be admitted.
With the exception of these cases and of 6 in Campbell Road, the
disease may be said to have been of a purely sporadic character. There
was, however, a group of 3 cases in one house in Dunford Road, of 3 in
Regina Road, of 3 in Milton Place off Eden Grove, and of 3 in Gloucester
Road. For further particulars vide table N (Appendix).