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Apart from the eating of badly washed celery and watercress.
and of raw or im erfectly-cooked shell-fish taken from
sewage-contaminated sources, or the drinking of polluted water, one
explanation that Typhoid Fever generally prevails during the last
quarter of the year may be that the cold atmospheric air displaces
the heated ground air, and also the sewer air-fermentation having
taken place in the polluted earth during the hot summer. The heavy
rains which happen at this period affecting the movement of the
ground and sewer airs may also be a cause of the prevalence of
Typhoid Fever.
DIPHTHERIA (INCLUDING MEMBRANOUS CROUP).
144 cases of diphtheria and 7 cases of membranous croup were
notified in Poplar, and 176 cases of diphtheria and 4 cases of membranous
croup were notified in Bromley.