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53 in Brown-street, one of 58 in Glasgow-terrace, and one of
56 in Rutland-street, besides two strangers in the Hospital.
Domestic servants, who live and sleep in the basements
of houses and are there exposed to unusual quantities of
sewer vapour, are entitled to the protection afforded them by
inspection of premises in which they have become ill. It
may be added in taking leave of "fever," that some cases
included under the head may be of doubtful nature ; and that
in some of the cases before us the disease was contracted out
of our parish. The two deaths from diarrhoea were those of
young infants, arising probably from unwholesome food; so
were two of the cases of dysentery; the others were chronic
cases in persons who had been in hot climates.
Six persons are returned as having died of the effects
of intoxicating liquors; such persons are usually coachmen
or male domestic servants, or potboys, or mechanics' wives.
The number of persons who died of consumption, scrofula,
tabes mesenterica, brain disease of children, teething, premature
birth, atrophy and debility was 130, and the number
from accident, negligence, and other moral causes 25.
Amongst the accidents are the deaths of three aged women
who died by falling down stairs; of an infant of 18 months,
who was let fall on its head; an engineer aged 18, who fell
through a skylight, whilst removing snow from a roof, and
divided his brachial artery and bled to death; a carman of
37, who fell from a van at Surbiton; a groom of '25, whose
skull was fractured against a lamp-post by a runaway horse;
a cowkeeper of 19 thrown down by a horse he was trying to
stop ; a boy of 18 drawn into steam machinery and crushed;
a man of 57, whose finger was crushed in a cog-wheel; a
man of 40, who died of locked jaw, after injuring his thumb;
a railway shunter crushed by a waggon, and a fireman
crushed in uncoupling his engine ; a man of 37, whose skull
- was fractured by a fly-wheel; a labourer, whose leg was