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in 1881. From 18GG to 1881 the average yearly admission to 
hospital of cases of typhoid fever was 594. 1' rom 1 8 to 
it had been reduced to an average of 104 though the pop u Ji 
had in the meanwhile increased from 152,000 to 2 i 8 , • 
parison of the death-rate before and after the introduction ot 
sewerage works in the following towns will show the beneficial 
results to be derived from such works : 
Croydon 
Macclesfield 
Salisbury 
Newport 
Cardiff 
from 
23.7 
29.8 
27.5 
31.8 
33.2 
to 
18.6 
23.7 
21.9 
21.5 
22.6 
So that we can reasonably expect that our present death-rate of 
over 31 may after the introduction of sewerage works be reduced 
to 21 or less- 
I shall now proceed to consider certain conditions con- 
«pcted with the town of Port-of-Spain which must affect the 
health of our homes. The Water Supply. The stream which 
• xnnnlies us with water is totally unprotected above tne 
mainly supplies us ( ^ ^ ^ necessary 
reservou , 1 ‘ ,® . j liable to contamination from cattle. 
cess pits and above tfiat it * ^ ^ ^ ^ >uch a 
It ought to be a • ^ f ew months ago in the town of 
condition of thing* • ‘ () f .otilv 12.4 there occurred nearly 
Maidstone with s* ' 1 . 1 1 . i ou t of every 15 of the population 
2,000 cases of typhoid te ji seas e.‘ The cause was the 
in that town was attacEet . I above tho reservoir by typhoid 
contamination ot tne *r & hop-pickers who had encamped 
excreta from a case among • • ]lospita l not very long ago 
near the spring. In the C 1 canje from Maraval above 
there died a young coo p wftS undoubted typhoid fever, 
the reservoir and whose d seas <(ir is ser ved out to the 
The water after collection 1 » “ . rece ived. It does not undergo 
town in the same condition as it As diarrhoea and 
-,nv nrocess of sedimentation , 4 . 5 th of the number of 
dysentery are answerable for n' 0 ™*; we should be careful that 
in any future scheme <***“,. me ans of science 
swwE&atf SEsg.£«st 
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