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of 0.32 per 1,000. All the houses in which the deaths
occurred were carefully inspected. In one house the
the rain-water pipe was untrapped and the joints were
defective; in another there was a foul pan-closet, and the
cistern overflow pipe entered the drain; in a third it entered
the soil-pipe; in others the surface inlets were untrapped
and the drainage otherwise defective. In London the deathrate
was 0.21, in Edinburgh 0.05, in Glasgow 0.18, in
Dublin 0.11, and in England and Wales 0.14 per 1,000
inhabitants.
Whooping Cough caused 20 deaths, equivalent to an annual
rate of 0.72 per 1,000. In London the rate was 0.65.
Typhoid Fever caused 5 deaths, equivalent to an annual
rate of 0.18 per 1,000. In London the rate was 0.16.
In St. Mary's Sub-district the fatal cases were as under:—
(1) Eulham Place. A gentleman, aged 26. Contracted
disease in the country.
(2) Cambridge Terrace, Kensal Road. A fruiterer, aged
56. Drainage defective.
(3) Shirland Road. A clerk, aged 16. Untrapped inlet
to drains.
(4) Westmoreland Road. A carman, aged 45. Soil-
pipe, imperfectly jointed, passed through the middle
of the house. D-trap of closet perforated.
In St. John's Sub-district the only fatal case was:—
(1) Queen's Mews. Daughter of policeman, aged 3.
Waste pipe from cistern entered trap of closet