318 The Mortality of Liverpool, | July, 
In the original map Dr. Trench has shown with red spots the 
number of deaths from typhus which occurred in the respective 
streets, and the mortality in some of them is positively frightful. 
If on some ball or festival night the roofs could be lifted from 
the houses in the fever-stricken districts, and the gay revellers 
hoisted, “aw diable boiteux,” to the top of the Town Hall, and pro- 
vided with opera-glasses for the inspection of the interiors around 
them, we suspect they would go home sadder and wiser men and 
women, and would seriously consider the best method of bringing 
about in their city the much-talked of, but little practised, “ Sanitary 
reform !” 
We should have been glad to find in Dr. Trench’s report a brief 
account of the number of cases of fever which have ended fatally as 
compared with those which have been successfully treated, and a com- 
parison with former years. No doubt it would be difficult to draw 
up such a table, which would convey some idea of the efficiency 
with which the medical men had performed their duties and the 
increasing or diminishing curability of those diseases. To their 
causes we have already referred, cursorily here, and at length in 
our former article. Overcrowding with its concomitants, drunken- 
ness, immorality, and poverty, these form the text from which ser- 
mons are preached daily in Liverpool, but preached in vain. 
But there is one feature in this sad history which more espe- 
cially merits the attention of our legislators and philanthropists. 
We will allow the able author whose report lies before us to 
describe it in his own terms :— 
“Tt is this mysterious selection of its most numerous victims from 
among those who are the parents and the bread-winners of families 
that constitutes the dreaded attribute of typhus; for their death not 
only brings sorrow and grief to the survivors, but spreads want and 
pauperism over a wide radius of the social circle. This peculiarity is 
aggravated in its effects by another singular feature of typhus fever. 
It is essentially a disease of the poor, and is as a rule confined to them, 
or to those of the better ranks, who, as clergymen, district visitors, 
physicians, and nurses, work in the dwellings of poverty, or to those 
who, as victuallers, undertakers, pawnbrokers, and small shopkeepers, 
are brought by business into direct communication with the affected. 
Of the whole 2,338 deaths, no less than 2,177 were of persons from the 
class which live by weekly wages. Of the remaining 161, eighty-nine 
were tradesmen, and sixty-three either the widows or members of the 
families of tradesmen; nine belonged to the class of the gentry or 
professions. Among the tradesmen were twenty-six licensed victuallers, 
besides twelve members of their families. Of the other tradesmen, 
twenty (viz. three milk-dealers, two butchers, eleven flour and provision 
dealers and four grocers) dealt in comestibles, and were likely to have 
come in frequent contact with fever patients or with persons directly 
from the sick-room; twelve (viz. a druggist, four Scripture readers 
