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employees engaged at the Isolation Hospital,
where the disease was presumably contracted, and
the other three were from outside. The following
are some of the particulars found on investigation.
First case—a young man—employed as
chauffeur. The drains at the house were
examined and found quite in order, but at his
place of employment the drains—those of a stable
—were defective, and the only water supply was
from a cistern supplying, and fixed in, the W.C.
It is, of course, impossible to say definitely that
this was the cause, because the very nature of the
man's calling took him about the country and
gave special facilities for contraction elsewhere.
The second and third cases were those of
father and son living in the same house. The
drains were tested and found to be defective inside
the W.C. and around the gully, sewage was also
found to be leaking into the foundations of the
adjoining kitchen.
The fourth case was that of a woman newly
engaged as cook at the Isolation Hospital. She
first of all had pneumonia and subsequently contracted
enteric.
The fifth, was a young nurse who fell ill
at the Hospital, while the three immediately
preceding cases were under care there.
All of these five cases were treated in the
Isolation Hospital, and all recovered.
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