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from Gosport on the 18th June, sickened on the 24th, and
died on the 4th of July.
Scarlatina with diphtherite, quinsey, and putrid or malignant
sore throat, (diseases which are closely allied, but
not identical,) destroyed 24 lives this quarter, against 17
last year. Diphtherite is scattered over the parish, as it is
over the rest of the metropolis; the attacks are wide apart,
but often fatal where they fall. Deaths from this disease
occurred at 16, Brick Street; 19, Hay's Mews; 1, King
Street, Park Street; 17, Shaftesbury Terrace; 19, Caroline
Street; 14, Eaton Lane North; 12, Wilton Mews; and at 7
and 38, Gillingham Street.
Fevers of the kind called remittent and continued, or
typhoid, destroyed 23 lives.
Altogether, 118 of our fellow parishioners lost their
lives this quarter from zymotic diseases; many of which
depend on specific poisons, and some of which may be
guarded against by cleanliness. But when we speak of
cleanliness, we could wish that some definite and practical
details on the subject were taught to every child in the
kingdom, instead of vague admonitions to cleanliness in
general. Many persons, especially amongst the poor, scarcely
know what it means. But we would have every child taught
that to be clean—
1st. The skin and hair must be clean.
2nd. The wearing apparel must be clean.
3rd. Fixed articles of clothing, such as beds, blankets,
carpets, curtains, and the like, ought to be systematically
purified.
4th. The walls and ceilings of inhabited rooms ought
to be purified by lime-whiting, or by a coating of distemper
of some cheerful colour, which should be renewed once a
year at the least. The cheap papers which are much used,