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I referred somewhat imperfectly, I am sorry to admit, in my
last two annual reports. I purpose, therefore, to speak of
them in a little fuller detail on the present occasion.
It appears from information kindly given me by Dr.
McCombie of the South Eastern Hospital, and Dr. McKellar
of the South Western Hospital, that there were several cases
of Typhus in the parish during the first six mouths of 1883.
On February 23rd, a woman named Sullivan was removed
from 28, Clarkson place to the South Eastern Hospital,
where she died shortly afterwards. On February 28th, a
woman named Devall Avas removed to the same Hospital
from 37, Garsdale road. On March 19th, a woman named
Connell Avas removed from 24, Clarkson place, and on the
31st a woman named East from 24, Pennell's place. The last
three recovered. Daniel O'Connell was admitted on the 27th
April into the Stockwell Hospital and died there. He came
direct from Balham, but was said to have been living in a
house in Peckham where fever was known to exist. He was
not improbably the husband of the woman named Connell in
the books of the South Eastern Hospital, and had probably
therefore been living at 24, Clarkson place. The last two
cases were those of McGorman, a male, removed on the 15th
June, from 16, Park street, and J. Milligan, also a male,
removed on the 17th June, from a house in Rubv street, to
the South Eastern Hospital. These patients got well. It
thus appears that there were at least seven cases of Typhus
with two deaths. There can be no doubt, however, that
other cases (certainly slight ones) in addition to those
specified above, occurred, but were not recognized as Typhus,
in the neighbourhood of the affected districts, during the few
months within which the recorded cases occurred.