"From what I recollect of those houses that Doyle lets I should say that he richly deserves prosecution." "Nobody was ever ill in the houses," said the Major.

"There hasn't been a case of typhoid in the town as long as I can remember." "That's not the point," said Meldon.

"You're looking at the matter in the wrong way altogether.

There never is typhoid anywhere until you begin to be sanitary.

The absence of typhoid simply goes to show that sanitation has been entirely neglected.