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I summoned Mrs. Ruth Heckley, of 18, Gilbert-street,
Grosvenor-square, under the 38th section of the Sanitary
Act, on April 25th, at Marlborough-street, for being in
charge of an infected person, i.e. with scarlet fever, that
she exposed bim in a public conveyance without notifying to
the driver that the person was so infected. Mr. Tyrwhitt
fined her 40s.
Zymotic and other Diseases.
The mortality from zymotic disease amounted to 319,
against 366 of the previous year. The highest number of
deaths was, from diarrhœa, (73), of which 51 were those of
infants under 1 year of age, and 10 under 51, against 8 in
the previous year; scarlet fever came next, 64 against 62;
then whooping cough, 61 against 47; typhus fever, 43
against 34; pyaemia, 18 against 30, of which 15 were
those of non-parishioners at St. George's Hospital; measles,
17 against 27; diphtheria, 8 against 17; erysipelas, 9
against 16; croup 9; thrush 5; syphilis 4; and small pox
1; tabes and scrofula destroyed 16 persons; consumption
247; lung disease 320; hydrocephalus, convulsions, and
teething, 83.
The highest mortality from zymotic disease happened in
the quarter ending September 25th, 1869, when it destroyed
104 persons, of whom 56 succumbed to diarrhoea,
and of these 38 were under 1 year of age.
The deaths from accident or negligence numbered 68,
36 of which occurred to non-parishioners in St. George's
Hospital. Of the parishioners, the wife of a porter, aged
57, died from fracture of the skull, caused by falling down
stairs at No. 3, John's-eourt, Farm-street. A gentleman,
aged 44, died from fractured cervical vertebrae, at No.
15, Graham-street, Pimlico. An infant of 2 years was
crushed to death by the wheel of a cart under which she