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Fever caused 5 deaths—1 was ascribed to typhus fever,
3 to typoid fever, and 1 to simple continued fever. The death
from typhus fever was that of a gentleman. The disease was
not contracted in the parish.
In St. Mary's Sub-district the only fatal typhoid case
was:—
1. Kensal Road. Wife of a bootmaker, aged 59 years.
House in a fair sanitary condition.
In St: John's Sub-district the fatal typhoid cases were as
under:—
1. St. Mary's Hospital. A servant, aged 33 years,
tracted the disease at Margate.
2. St. Mary's Hospital. Son of a carman, aged 13 years.
Had lived in Dudley Street. House in a fair
sanitary condition.
Diarrhoea caused 55 deaths, corresponding to an annual
rate of 1.96 per 1,000 inhabitants. Of these, 50 occurred in
St. Mary's and 5 in St. John's Sab-District; 43 were of
infants under 1 year, and 4 of children between 1 and 2
years of age. In London the rate was 2.02.