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acquired the power of disseminating disease. I investigated
this outbreak in St. Albans, on behalf of the Local
Government Board, and the details will be found in a report
presented to that Board.
The London milk vendor, on my representation determined
to draw his milk supply from another source, and the injury
sustained by St. Pancras was therefore very slight.
SIMPLE CONTINUED FEVER.
No deaths were registered from Simple Continued Fever
during 1884, but a young child died from so-called remittent
fever in the Kentish Town sub-registration District,
DIARRHÆA.
In 1884, there were 227 deaths from diarrhoea, a larger
number during any year since 1878, and 65 more than in 1883.
The annual average of the previous ten years was 188'7 or 44
less than that of the year under consideration. The deaths in
St. Pancras from this disease were in the proportion of 47.3 per
1000 of total deaths, and 0 93 per 1000 of population. In
London these proportions were 45.5 and 0.99 respectively
showing that St. Pancras had suffered more severely than
London as a whole. Of the 227 deaths, 6 were from simple
cholera, and of these, 3 occurred in the Kentish Town, 2 in the
Gray's Inn Road, and 1 in the Regent's Park sub-registration
Districts.
As regards the ages at which the deaths from diarrhoea took
place, 159 were of children under one year of age, 195 under five
years, and the remainder from five to eighty-five years of age.