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It has already been stated that the mortality from zymotic
diseases was heavy, which would naturally result from an increase
of sickness produced by these complaints; and accordingly,
we find that out of the 2732, 87 were cases of measles, 7 of
chicken-pox, 6 of scarlatina, 47 of whooping-cough, 4 of croup,
164 of diarrhoea, 30 of continued fever, 34 of rheumatic fever,
11 of erysipelas, and 4 of diphtheria. There were also 303
cases of bronchitis, and 18 of pneumonia.
Oases of small-pox have occurred in Newland Street,
Shaftesbury Terrace, and Victoria Mews. One proved fatal, in
May, at 26, Shaftesbury Terrace, in a child aged five months,
who was not vaccinated, although a caution had been left at the
house by the Medical Officer of Health in April for all the
children living there to be vaccinated, in consequence of the
complaint having then appeared in a female. The father of the
child helped at the Royal Mews, where fortunately the disease
did not appear ; but he consented to be revaccinated.
IH. We now present an account of certain sanitary matters
brought before the Committee authorized to carry out the
" Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act."
Cesspool in Bell Yard, Mount Street. — Complaints were
made almost simultaneously of a leakage of water into the
kitchens of Nos. 58 and of 60, Mount Street, premises which
abut upon Bell Yard. The drainage of Bell Yard was therefore
explored by the Surveyor, when it was found that a large
cesspool existed there, 10 or 12 feet deep, and 3 or 4 in breadth;
and that this cesspool received the drainage of the seven
stables in Bell Yard, and part of the drainage of 57, Mount