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The deaths from typhoid fever in Marylebone were as 

 follows : 



During week ending 5th July . .. . .0 



" 12th " . . V . 1 



" 19th " . . ' . .2 



" 26th " . . ; . 



2d August . ' . .1 



" 9th " -. . . 1 



" 16th " ... .3 



" 23d " . . . 2 



30th " .."'. .2 



" 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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