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The next outbreak occurred in November and December,.
1884, and was limited to 5 and 7, Verney flats, a tenement
house in Verney road, a part of the parish which adjoins
Rotherhithe. There were eight cases in all, of which six
occurred in members of one family. Seven of the cases were
removed to the South Western Hospital and two died. The
first case came to our knowledge on the 8th November, the
last on the 15th December,
The most important outbreak of the disease Avas brought
to our notice in the early part of February, 1885, when 19
cases broke out within one week; of which 15 occurred in
five houses in Bexley place and Downes street. Table XIV.
shows the distribution of the malady according to streets and
dates, taking only those cases Avhich Avere removed to
Hospital. 40 were treated in the South Eastern Hospital,
5 in the South Western, and one in St. Thomas's. It is
certain that other cases occurred besides those included in
the table, and probable that some of the other cases of Fever
which came under our notice during the six months, from February
to July inclusive, which were called Typhoid, or to which
other names Avere given,were really cases of Typhus. There can
be little doubt too that this epidemic was, directly or
indirectly, related to the outbreak in Yerney flats. We could
not trace this connection; but Yerney road, as the croAv flies,
is within a quarter of a mile of DoAvnes street, and during the
prevalence of the later epidemic Ave Avere able (being fully
alive to AAdiat Avas going on at the time) to trace connection
between cases which under other circumstances would have
been unsuspected and undetected. As bearing on this point
it may be observed that, on the 29th January, tAvo cases (called
Typhoid) Avere taken from 17, DoAvnes street to the South
Eastern Hospital. Noav looking to the fact that these two