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Fatal Cases of Enteric Fever.
Place or Death. Remarks.
South Hide, Clapham Common. Drains defective and partially choked. W.C. defective.
Union Street. Numerous complaints of smell from street grating
opposite the house. No defects of house drainage.
Chelsham Road. Waste pipe of hath directly connected with soil-pipe.
Kitchen sink untrapped.
Westbury Street. No Sanitary defects. A doubtful case.
Queen's Place, Wandsworth Road. Cause undetected. No sanitary defects in house.
Lysias Road. Said by the medical attendant to be a doubtful case,
and he subsequently stated it to be scarlet fever.
Clapham Park Road. Origin could not be traced.
Union Road. Worked at Bromley until taken ill, and died in
Stock well Hospital.
Pickett Street A doubtful case.
Peardon Street. Certificate stated Gastric Fever and Pneumonia; and
there is no reason to think the case was true
Enteric Fever.
Fatal Cases of Diphtheria.
Place of Death. Remarks.
Beaufoy Road, Wandsworth Road. A doubtful case.
Avenue Road, Wandsworth Road. In the scullery, which was used as a living-room, only
a bell-trap separated the sink from the drain, and
when the trap was removed, there was a powerful
up-current and smell.
Peardon Street, Wandsworth Road. Cause undetected.
Oldridge Road. Cause undetected.
Rectory Grove. Cause undetected.
Wirtemberg Street. During 15 years in which the house had been occupied
by the same family, 12 non-fatal and 1 fatal case of
Scarlet Fever had occurred. Also 2 deaths from
Diphtheria, and repeated attacks of sore throat.
Over £200 had been paid to doctors. From a closet
in back-yard ran a pipe drain under the house to
sewer. Defective and open joints had already been
discovered in this. The rain-water pipe entered it
without trapping, and its defective joints ventilated
into bedroom windows. On disconnecting the stackpipe,
a disused brick drain was discovered, one end
of which was connected with the pipe drain and the
other ended in a cul-de-sac close to kitchen door.