┌──────┬───────────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Number│Name of the│Number │ REMARKS. │ │of the│ Family. │ of │ │ │House.│ │Persons│ │ │ │ │ ill │ │ │ │ │ with │ │ │ │ │Fever. │ │ ├──────┼───────────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ │No. 25│Langton. │ 3 │Children, all of whom recovered. │ │No. 26│Dearu. │ 4 │Man and wife, the former died. │ │No. 27│Bailey. │ 1 │Man, who recovered. │ │No. 28│Nettleship.│ 4 │Three children, and subsequently their │ │ │ │ │ mother. The children, after many weeks, │ │ │ │ │ recovered, but the poor mother (who was │ │ │ │ │ pregnant), being much weakened by the │ │ │ │ │ fever, and long attendance upon her │ │ │ │ │ children, died soon afterwards in │ │ │ │ │ child-bed. │ │No. 29│Curzon. │ 5 │First a lodger, named Elizabeth Sherwin, │ │ │ │ │ (recently confined) and her infant, both│ │ │ │ │ died. Then three of Curzon’s children, │ │ │ │ │ who recovered. │ │No. 30│Hatfield. │ 1 │A girl, who recovered. │ └──────┴───────────┴───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘ “In all 16 persons attacked with typhus fever, of whom five died. “Here then we have a very interesting subject for investigation; namely, how was it that in a row of 54 houses, uniform in situation, size, and construction, tenanted by the same description of persons, the inhabitants of the six centre houses should have been attacked by a malignant fever, from which those who lived in the 24 houses above and 24 below them altogether escaped?