Marylebone has been under a regular panic this week. An
access of typhoid fever, which would have created little or no excitement in Poplar or Bethnal Green, struck Cavendish Square, Harley Street, Wimpole Street, and even Grosvenor Square, and science was instantly awake and on the alert. It was found that the water was pure, and the drainage not much worse than usual, but that of forty-three families attacked forty took their milk from the same dairy. The dairyman at first was invited to sus- pend sales, but as he could not do this, a Sanitary Committee examined the eight farms from which he drew his supplies, and on one farm the source of the mischief was discovered, the tenant having died on June 9 of malignant typhoid. The supply was at once stopped, and the panic is subsiding, but the parish autho- rities are still exerting themselves to provide disinfectants for all the drains. The outbreak was the more remarkable, because Marylebone, with its gravelly soil, is usually one of the healthiest districts in London, in spite of its mews, which seem built to retain fever. They do not, however, for if that did, the owners of valuable horses would at once apply remedies, which inci- dentally would save also the coachmen and grooms.
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