Water used. Deaths from Deaths from All Causes. Typhoid Fever. Filtered Thames water only 19,501 125 Filtered Lea water only 21,334 167 Kent wells only 18,001 123 Thames and Lea jointly 18,945 138 Thames and Kent jointly 18,577 133 The population supplied exclusively from the Lea by the East London Company is of a poorer class than that of the rest of London, and this may account for the slightly higher death-rate in this section. Aside from this the rate is remarkably uniform and shows no great difference between the section drinking ground-water only and those drinking filtered river-waters. The death-rate from typhoid fever is also very uniform and, although higher than that of some Continental cities with excellent water-supplies (Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Dresden), is very low—lower than in any American city of which I have records. In this connection, it was shown by the Registrar-General that there is only a very small amount of typhoid fever on the watersheds of the Thames and Lea, so that the danger of infection of the water as distinct from pollution is less than would otherwise be the case. Thus for the seven years above mentioned the numbers of deaths from typhoid fever per million of population were only 105 and 120 on the watersheds of the Thames and the Lea respectively, as against 176 for the whole of England and Wales. LONDON FILTERS, 1896. Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Local Government Board, pages 206-213.