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The deaths from typhoid fever in Marylebone were as 

 follows : 



During week ending 5th July .... 



12th &quot; . . . .1 



19th &quot; . . . .2 



&quot; 26th &quot; . . .0 



&quot; 2d August . .1 



&quot; 9th &quot; . . .1 



&quot; 16th &quot; ... 3 



23d &quot; ... 2 



30th &quot; ... 2 



&quot; 6th September . . .2 



Total during the ten weeks 14 



Being at the rate of rather less than one per 100,000 per 

 week. 



A poison which does not poison you if you take it in aque 

 ous solution, but poisons a whole township when that same 

 aqueous solution is diluted with milk a hundred or a thousand 

 fold, and whose period of incubation is sometimes two months 

 and sometimes three days, according to the exigencies of your 

 case, must be singular indeed. And when such a poison 

 seems to have ravaged a whole parish, it marks its ravages 

 most appropriately by a diminution in the death-rate. 



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