View report page

16
The following table shows the incidence of this disease
upon the various sub-registration districts. All the deaths
from Enteric Fever were referred to the sub-registration districts
to which they belonged, but 87 deaths from "all
causes " are omitted from consideration (vide Note, page 3).
No. of Proportion Proportion
Sub-registration Districts. Deaths per 1,000 of per 1,000 of Total
Population. Deaths .
Regent's Park 34 0.86 47.6
Tottenham Court Road 9 0.33 16.5
Gray's Inn Lane 9 0.29 15.6
Somers Town 11 0.31 13.8
Camden Town 22 1.42 57.4
Kentish Town 47 0.52 29.8
The excessive mortality from this disease is due to the
distribution during the month of August of an infected milk
supply, which was received from a farm in Hertfordshire.
This milk was mostly consumed by the inhabitants of Camden
Town and Regents Park sub-registration districts who
Buffered out of all proportion to the residents in other
districts.
From July 28th to September 8th as many as 431 persons
living in 276 houses were attacked with this disease The
circumstances of the outbreak will be sufficiently within the
memory of the Vestry to make it unneccessary for me to
enter in any detail into the subject, but I may remind the
Vestry that an investigation conducted at the time showed a
special incidence of the disease upon houses supplied with
milk coming from a milk vendor in the Parish, and who
received his milk from five sources. It was also found that
there was a still greater incidence upon houses supplied with
milk coming from a particular farm. Again it was observed
that the milk was infected before its arrival in London, this
fact being proved by an outbreak at the railway station
where the milk arrived, among the porters, who were
in the habit of drinking it, a proof also that the infected
milk was received from one of three farms sending milk by
this line. Of these three farms it was found that the milk of
one could be eliminated from suspicion owing to its having
been used elsewhere without harm.