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The distribution of the cases, and deaths amongst males and females in the four
registration districts of the parish, are shewn in the subjoined table:—

Six cases of continued fever were notified, none of which proved fatal
During August, September, October, and the beginning of November, a series of
cases of typhoid fever occurred within a small area, comprising the west end of
Watson's Place, and the adjacent north end of Louisa Street.
The cases were notified as follows:—1 on August 6th, 3 on August 24th, 1 on
September 2nd, 1 on Septemper 7th, 1 on September 11th, 1 on September 27th, 2
on September 28th, 1 on October 7th, 1 on October 2Gth, and 1 on November 4th—
in all 13 cases, 10 males and 3 females. The average age of the persons attacked
was 15 years, the average age in cases of typhoid occurring elsewhere in the parish
during the same period being 22.5 years.
The houses invaded were 10 in number, five on the south side of Watson's Place,
one on the north side, and the remainder in Louisa Street. They are seven-roomed,
and were mostly in a dirty condition, being let off in lodgings, and occupied
generally by very poor people. The drainage of the houses in Louisa Street was
dealt with under the supervision of the Vestry's Sanitary Inspector a few years ago,
as was also that of the house on the north side of Watson's Place. The invaded
houses on the south side of Watson's Place were found to be drained by a common
drain which was in a very defective condition throughout the whole of its extent
to the sewer in Watson's Place, being broken in several places, and leaking freely
at every joint.
The Vestry's sewers in Louisa Street and Watson's Place are 12-inch pipe sewers,
and in very good condition.