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pipe with slip joints, and directly connected with
drain. W.C. in yard, with defective flushing apparatus.
Separate water supply.
Fernhead Road.—Ground opened. Drain defective.
Joints open. No intercepting syphon. Bell
traps. Soil pipe serves as rain-water pipe and opens
near window. One water supply with water-waste
preventer.
Hall Place.—Ground opened. Drain defective
and unventilated. Joints open. Apparently no intercepting
syphon. Defective iron D trap to surface
inlet. W.C. in yard, with "long hopper" pan and
spindle valve. One water supply.
Netley Street.—Disease contracted in the Western
Fever Hospital, when patient was convalescent from
Scarlet Fever.
Poplar Place.—Ground opened. Brick-barrel
drain, partly choked. Pipes in connection with the
same not properly jointed. No intercepting syphon.
Separate water supply.
Church Place.—Drain sound. No intercepting
syphon. Separate water supply.
In London there were 677 deaths, equivalent to
an annual rate of 0.63 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Whooping Cough caused 21 deaths—18 in St.
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