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Another more sudden death from the same cause
occurred at No. 30, North Audley Street, in a healthy
boy of 4, who came ill from Union Street, Borough, and
died on the seventh day.
Amongst other note-worthy cases of death, are that of
a young woman of 28, at No. 6, Robert Street, who died
in consequence of an alarm of fire in a neighbouring house,
after her confinement; two suicides of young women, and
one of an old man in the Serpentine; and that of a woman
at No. 96, New Bond Street, on whom an inquest was
held, with the verdict that her death was accelerated by the
impure air of the apartment in which she lived. See p. 12.
II.—The Sickness. The number of cases attended
gratuitously this quarter, in the Hanover and May Fair
sub-districts, was 1,031, against 951 last year. Of
these 249 were cases of diarrhoea; and fully a third of
these were casual applications for relief, at the St.
George's and St. James's Dispensary; and it must be
added, as a matter of fact, that the largest number of
applications from adults came on Mondays, from the
misuse, possibly, of the foregoing holy-day. Of cases of
continued fever and febricula there were 26; of scarlatina
only 3; showing that the persons affected were supplied
with medicine elsewhere. Disorders of the breathing organs
sink into insignificance at this season; thus there were
only 40 cases of bronchitis. And though there were 50
of measles, (which number represents but a fraction of the
prevalence of the disease,) there were no more than 4
deaths from it in these sub-districts.
In the Belgrave sub-district, 6,243 cases of disease
were treated by the parochial surgeons, at St. George's
Hospital, the Royal Pimlico Dispensary, and the St. Paul