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Hospitals and 1 to the London Fever Hospital. All with one
exception were removed from St. Mary's Sub-district.
Diphtheria caused 12 deaths—10 in St. Mary's and 2 in
St. John's Sub-district—equivalent to an annual rate of 0.42 per
1,000 inhabitants. In four of the fatal cases the disease was
not contracted in the Parish.
The houses in which the deaths occurred were carefully
inspected. One house only was in a good sanitary condition.
In all the other houses defects in connection with the drainage
were apparent at the surface inlets, or in the course of the drain,
or the joints of the soil-pipe were open, or there were very foul
closets. In London the death-rate was 0.24.
Typhoid Fever caused 5 deaths. In St. Mary's Sub-district
the fatal cases were as under:—
(1.) Fernhead Road. A warehouseman, aged 49 years.
The drain of this house, built last year, had been twice stopped ;
on examination, the joints were found to be open and the drain
in other respects extremely faulty in construction.
(2.) Tavistock Crescent. A salesman, aged 21. Surface
inlets without traps and the brick junctions defective.
(3.) Warwick Road. Housemaid, aged 26. Untrapped
sink waste.
In St. John's Sub-district the fatal cases were as under: —
(1.) St. Mary's Hospital. A coachman, 45 years. Admitted
from Elgin Mews South. Untrapped surface inlets in stable.
(2.) Bathurst Street. Grocer's son, 10 years. Drain
defective; no trap in area.
Diarrhœa caused 14 deaths, corresponding to an annual rate
of 0.5 per 1,000 inhabitants. 9 occurred in St. Mary's and
5 in St. John's Sub-district. 11 were of infants under 1
year of age. In London the rate was 0.36.