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latina and diphtheria 17 against 4; whooping-cough 27 against
11; and small-pox 2. Lung diseases destroyed 122, of which
bronchitis numbered 31, pneumonia 18, and consumption 67.
Various diseases carried off 85 children under five years of
age. Only one death occurred from diarrhoea. Premature
birth destroyed 10 children, want of breast milk 1, and 4
under one year were suffocated.
II. The new cases of existing disease were as follow:—
The sickness in the Hanover and May Fair sub-districts,
amongst the class who are attended by the Parochial Surgeons,
and at the Mount Street Branch of the St. George's and St.
James's Dispensary, produced 1030 applications, including 119
cases of catarrh and bronchitis, 24 of diarrhoea, and 50 of fever.
Small-Pox. — In consequence of the appearance of this
malady in Gilbert Street and Hart Street, referred to in the
last Quarterly Summary, every charitable school in the Inwards
has been visited, and a knowledge of the danger spread
amongst the classes who are most likely to neglect vaccination.
The number of children at these schools is about 2000; and at
five out of the seven schools enquiry is made (and at the other
two it ought by the rules to be made) as to whether children,
newly admitted, have been vaccinated.
In the Belgrave sub-district 6283 cases of disease were
treated by the Parochial Surgeons, at St. George's Hospital,
the Royal Pimlico Dispensary, and the St. Paul and St. Barnabas'
Dispensary; and at the Workhouse, Little Chelsea. Of
these cases 3551 were patients at St. George's Hospital, leaving
a remainder of 2732.