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Lambeth and in Kensal-town) might not have had a similar origin. In 1910
an area in Bethnal-green was especially affected; study was made of a number
of other localised prevalences of typhoid fever in other parts of London and
in Edmonton and Tottenham. Examination of the facts failed to show in
each instance that any ordinarily accepted cause of typhoid fever had been
operative, but it was found that all sufferers had partaken of fish (usually
fried fish), and that in all the instances in which information on this head
could be obtained, small plaice belonging to the category described by friedfish
vendors as "late steamer fish," was in question. The report points out
that much of the small plaice sold at Billingsgate comes from an area in
which are situated certain "nursery grounds" not far from the mouth of the
Elbe, and it is suggested as a possibility that estuary fish may be in question.
CONSUMPTION
(PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS).
Deaths from Consumption.
The number of deaths in St. Pancras from the pulmonary form of Tuberculosis
during each of the last eight years, at several ages, has been as
follows