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The disease did not manifest any special incidence
on any part of the Parish, except perhaps the area
between Harrow and North Wharf Roads. In South
Paddington the cases occurred singly, i.e., one per
street and house, but in North more cases than one
were reported from the following streets:—
Cirencester St. 2 cases in 1 house
Cuthbert Street 5 „ 1 „
Dudley Street 3 „ 1 „
Edbrooke Road 2 „ 2 houses
Fernhead Road 2 „ 2 „
Harrow Road 2 „ 2 „
Kilburn Pk. Rd. 2 cases in 2 houses
North WharfRd. 6 ,, 5 „
Fortnall Road 8 „ 6 „
Shirland Road 2 „ 2 „
Woodchester St. 2 „ 2 „
Woodfield Place 5 „ 1 house
and the numbers reported from individual houses were
as follow:—
From 44 houses 1 case each;
„ 2 „ 2 cases „ ;
„ 2 „ 3 „ „ ;
„ 1 „ 4 „ „ ; and
„ 1 „ 5 „ „
The infection of enteric fever is usually held to be
but rarely transferred from person to person, the more
common mode of transference being deemed to be
through food or water. Under the latter circumstances,
the dates of attacks of successive cases in any household
would be at such intervals as would indicate
either that the source of infection was the same for all
cases and operative at or about the same time, or that
infection from the first case had been received at such
intervals as would suffice for the passage of the
materies morbi into the food or water. In certain
ot the groups, notably 2 and 6, (Table 9), neither of