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Most of the houses in which the cases of diphtheria
occurred were in a fair sanitary condition, others
showed faulty sanitary arrangements, such as a
water-closet without water, waste-pipes from cistern
connected with water-closet, defective bell-traps, and
soil-pipes too near to bed-room windows. In one or
two instances complaints were made of bad smells
from ventilators and gulleys in the streets.
As regards the deaths from typhoid fever, 4 of
them occurred in houses which were in a fair sanitary
condition, 5 in which sanitary defects were
discovered, and in the remaining 5 cases the persons
were believed to have contracted the disease outside
the Parish.
Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea caused in London 2,644 deaths, giving
a death-rate of 0.68 per 1,000 inhabitants. In
Paddington there were 51 deaths (including 3 from
choleraic diarrhoea), equivalent to a rate of 0.47 per
1,000. 41 deaths occurred in St. Mary's, and 10 in
St. John's Sub-district.
Water.
The average daily quantity of water supplied by
the eight Companies to the inner circle of London was
144,592,772 gallons, being 3,000,000 gallons more
than in the previous year. This was an average