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fact, no fewer than 45 have died during this period.
In Alpha Place North instead of 63 persons dying
only 38 would have died, and in Alpha Mews instead
of 18 only 9.
If the increased incidence of death on the population
in and around Alpha Place be due to defective
sanitary conditions, it is to be anticipated that these
will find specific expression in an increase of those
deaths due to diseases which are known to follow
upon these conditions. I have set out in the following
Table the death rates per 100,000 of population from
Diarrhoea, Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria and Phthisis,
diseases which are generally recognised as being
intimately associated with insanitary conditions.

The comparison instituted in the table is
sufficiently striking to make comment superfluous.
During the decennium no fewer than 12
coroner's inquests were held, and 2 deaths were