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Weekly returns have also been presented, recording
5335 new cases of disease, which came under treatment at
the following Institutions:—1. Workhouse, Little Chelsea;
2. Out-patient paupers; 3. St. George's hospital; 4. Royal
Pimlico Dispensary; 5. St. Paul and St. Barnabas' Dispensary.
The returns for two weeks ending Saturday, the 19th
and 26th days of September, shewed 140 cases of diarrhoea.
Another for the weeks ending the 3rd and 10th days
of October, exhibited 79 cases of diarrhoea, and consequently
a diminution of 61 cases in comparison with the previous
one, the greatest number having happened during the week
ending August 29th, when they amounted to 326. It was
reported to the Committee that the decrease of this complaint
was to be looked upon with satisfaction, more especially as
a serious outbreak of cholera had taken place in this country
at Abbey Row, West Ham; there was also reason for congratulation
that no exertions had been spared in abolishing
nuisances from Belgravia wherever they could be detected;
although its future invasion might not be prevented, nevertheless,
the Committee would be better prepared than before
sanitary measures were commenced.
Moreover, it should be remembered, that diarrhoea had
been much more prevalent last autumn than the previous
one, and that 37 cases had proved fatal during the thirteen
weeks ending Saturday, 26th September, 1857, the mortality
having, with the exception of one man, aged 75, confined
itself to children.
In consequence of the fatal outbreak of cholera at West
Ham, it was recommended, that the utmost vigilance be exercised
with regard to the state of the sewers and gully-holes,
some of which were very offensive. That the