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Hill where the drainage and sanitary arrangements
were found very defective, they were removed to
St. Thomas's Hospital and both recovered. The
third case was that of a man from Westfield Road,
but the cause was not ascertained to satisfaction, and
the fourth was a nurse at the Isolation Hospital who
contracted it while in attendance on a patient, she
also recovered.
Phthisis,
Or Consumption, the name by which it is more
generally known, has this year 12 deaths against
it compared with 5 of the year before, and this
number is a good deal beyond the average for this
locality. Attention is now everywhere being given
to methods having for their object the disinfection of
the spitting of those who are unfortunately attacked
with this very prevalent complaint. The habit of
expectoration in public places is so beastly that
everyone will welcome the crusade that is being made
against it in consequence of its being the chief
means by which the disease is spread. Amongst the
many disinfectants offered for use Cyllin (Jeyes'
Sanitary Compounds) occupies a high position as one
of the most powerful of the coal-tar disinfectants
(see " British Medical Journal," April 9th, 1904,
p. 853 ; " Lancet," August 20th, 1904, p. 524 ;
"Public Health," June, 1904, p. 563), and has the
merit of being ten times less poisonous than pure
carbolic acid. A solution of Cyllin of the strength
of one ounce to a one gallon pail of water might be
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