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exclusively confined to the children of the working
classes.
Fever.
Fever, including typhus, typhoid, and simple
continued fever, caused in London 1,196 deaths,
whereas the number according to the average rate
of the previous ten years would have been 1,413.
The saving was entirely under the headings "typhus"
and "simple continued fever," the registered mortality
from typhoid fever having been above the average.
In Paddington there was 1 death from typhus fever,
21 from typhoid, and 1 from simple continued fever.
Typhus Fever.—The death from typhus was that
of a child in Cirencester Street. The house was
very clean, and in a fair sanitary condition, there
being no evidence of overcrowding. Five cases of
typhus were removed to the hospitals—1 from Westbourne
Terrace to the London Fever Hospital, and
4 cases (1 from North Wharf Road, 1 from Netley
Street, and 2 from St. Mary's Hospital) to Stockwell.
In the Netley Street case there was no room
for doubt that the disease was contracted in Marylebone,
and as regards the Westbourne Terrace case
the evidence suggested that it was contracted outside
the parish.
Typhoid fever was more than usually destructive
in 1881. As stated in my quarterly report, from