TYPHOID DEATH RATES
Mr A G Gutteridge, in a paper on “The Relation of Sewerage Systems to the Prevalence of Typhoid and Similar Diseases;,” which was read before the sanitary science section of the Science Congress at Adelaide, recently, said that an investigation recently conducted into the statistics of those diseases in 49 of the great towns of Britain, disclosed that the average typhoid death rates for the two five-year periods, 1906-10 and .014. a similar investigation in the State of New York showed that the typhoid death rate in those communities wilich. were not provided with sewers was more than 60 per cent in excess of the rates in other communities Although Australia as a whole had an extremely low total death rate, the rates for both typhoid and diarrhoea were not by any .means satisfactory when compared with other countries Of all towns in Australia containing a population of more than 1000 only 10 per cent, were served by sewerage, compared with 6S per cent, in America, and 81 per cent, in Canada.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16212, 29 September 1924, Page 8
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