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This absence from infectious disease and
mortality is confirmed by the evidence of a
leading practitioner of medicine, residing in
Bishopsgate Street, who expressed his willingness
to testify to the generally good state of health of
the inhabitants of the court.
Only five infectious cases were notified during
the past five years 1893-8, and only 13 deaths
in the same period, of whom eight were under five
years of age, including six under ten months, the
remainder 36, 44, 45, 67 and 87 respectively.
Another indication of the healthiness of the
occupants is found in the fact that the average
period of residence of each family was no less than
seven years, one tenant having lived there 60
years, one 16, another 19, and two 14, &c.
The drainage of the court is good and modern.
Inspection chambers with fresh air inlets exist
between the drainage of the houses and the
public sewer in the court, with upcast ventilating
pipes at the backs of the houses, so that the
allegation that these dwellings can be permeated