134 The Public Health. [Jan., 
so that during the months of July and August last, the mortality of 
the district was equal to seventy in the 1,000 per annum. We are 
glad to hear that the village has now constituted itself a sewage 
district under the Sanitary Act of 1866, and that a vestry for the 
district has been appointed, and that a perfect system of drainage 
will be completed before the next summer. Would that parishes 
would be wise in time, and act before so much life and health has 
been destroyed. There must be many thousand villages in England 
suffering in the same way as Child’s Hill. It cannot be too widely 
known that typhoid fever is the child of deficient drainage, and 
that it cannot arise or be propagated where this agent does not 
exist. 
