There has been another scare on the subject of oysters and typhoid. At Winchester and Southampton and Portsmouth there have been a large number of cases of typhoid among those who attended mayoral banquets on the 9th of November, and among the victims who have succumbed is the Dean of Winchester, the Rev. W. F. Stephens, the distinguished theologian and author. The outbreak has been directly traced to some particular yester beds situated in the immediate vicinity of a sewage outfall. The Fishmongers' Company and the oyster dealers have taken the matter up energetically, in the interest of the trade as well as of the public, and stringent regulations are to be enforced for the inspection of oyster beds and the prevention of oysters from tainted sources being put upon the market. It was proved conclusively on the occasion of a previous outbreak that in all these cases the evil lies not in the oysters themselves, but in the contamination of oyster beds by sewage.
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