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waste pipe entered the trap of the same W.C. Of 2 bell-traps,
one was dry and the other was improperly fixed. In another
the old brick drain having fallen in under the roadway, a new
pipe drain was carried up from the sewer about half way through
the house and there connected with the old drain. From the
portion of the old drain thus left sewer air escaped into a cupboard
in which the deceased—a child 3 years of age—was
accustomed to keep its toys. In another house, in which 2 deaths
occurred, the drainage was defective—there being also an old
brick drain.
Typhoid Fever caused 3 deaths, of which I occurred in the
Children's Hospital. Neither the patient who died in Middlesex
Hospital and who had resided in Westbury Road, nor
the one who died in Porchester Place, is believed to have contracted
the disease in this parish.