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One death from this disease, and 223 from " all causes," could
not be referred to the districts to which they belong, and are,
therefore, omitted from consideration. (Vide Note, page 5.)
TYPHUS FEVER.
One death was registered as due to Typhus Fever, that of a
woman living in the Kentish Town sub-registration district. I
made enquiry into this case, with the result that I ascertained
that the deceased was a widow in good circumstances, who
occupied the whole of a small house, and who had not, so far as
is known, been exposed to infection of typhus. I had not the
opportunity of seeing this case either during life or after death.
ENTERIC FEVER.
There were 55 deaths from this disease during 1884, being 0.9
less than the annual average of the preceding ten years. The
number of deaths in 1884 in St Pancras was in the proportion
of 11.4 per 1000 deaths from "all causes," and 0.22 per 1000
of population. In London these proportions were 112 per 1000
of total deaths, and 0.24 per 1000 of population. The deaths
were distributed in St. Pancras as follows :—
Sub-registration Districts.
No. of
Deaths.
Proportion
per l,000 of
Population.
Proportion
per 1,000 of
Total
Deaths.
Regent's Park 4 0.10 5.8
Tottenham Court Road 8 0.29 14.9
Gray's Inn Road 12 0.39 19.1
Somers Town 11 0.31 15.1
Camden Town 6 0.39 17.2
Kentish Town 14 0.15 8.7
Among local outbreaks which it devolved upon me to investigate,
were certain cases of this disease occurring among the drinkers
of milk received from a dairy situated in an adjoining parish.
The supply of milk was being received by the sufferers from a farm
in Hertfordshire, which was at the same time, the cause of a
serious outbreak of enteric fever in the City and neighbourhood
of St. Albans. It was the same farm as that which in the
previous year had supplied milk which led to the disastrous
epidemic of enteric fever in St. Pancras, and which had again