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one of four months suffocated whilst in bed with its parents ;
and four suicidal drownings of women in the Serpentine.
II. The sickness has likewise been great. In the
Hanover and May Fair Sub-districts 929 persons have received
medical relief from the parochial surgeons, and from
the Mount Street Branch of the St. George's and St.
James's Dispensary; of whom 50 were entered as suffering
from measles, 8 from scarlet fever, 34 from common fever,
and 256 from bronchitis and catarrh. Of diarrhoea there
were 19 cases.
In the Belgrave Sub-district 6074 cases of disease were
treated by the parochial surgeons, at the St. George's
Hospital, the Royal Pimlico Dispensary, and the St. Paul
and Barnabas' Dispensary; and at the Workhouse, Little
Chelsea. Of these cases 3376 were treated at St. George's
Hospital, leaving 2655; amongst whom, the proportion of
parishioners and non-parishioners is not known.
The proportion which diseases bare to each other is
shown by the fact, that out of the 2655 were 60 cases of
diarrhoea, 37 of measles, 17 of typhus, 18 of rheumatic
fever, 14 of hooping-cough, 10 of erysipelas, 2 of diphtherite,
and 229 of bronchitis.
The small-pox appeared in Gilbert Street, and in Hart
Street, in the middle of March. In each case the patient
was a child already vaccinated imperfectly; the former died.
The family of the patient in Hart Street occupied a front
room; behind this is a closet 9 feet square, in which four
children of another family sleep, and which derives all its
light and air from the front room.