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came from No. 26; 8 from 24, George Street; 9 from
18, North Bruton Mews; and 15 from the contiguous
building, No. 30, Grosvenor Mews, a building which holds
nearly 100 inhabitants, and furnishes a model of what lodgings
ought not to be.
The mortality of Robert Street, Grosvenor Square,
where six children and two adults died, will not fail to
be noticed. These houses, like some in Thomas Street, are
clean and respectably tenanted, but are built without due
regard to the amount of air required for a house when
every room is occupied by a family. If not offensive they
are stuffy; the staircase, whence the main supply of air
comes at night, is small and not provided with sufficient
windows. During the night the air comes in from the basement,
where it has been filtered over the dust-bin, and possibly
over an untrapped gully. But landlords cannot be got to see,
that if many human beings are crowded into small space,
the apparatus for ventilation and drainage, must be looked
after with the utmost nicety.
In the Belgrave sub-district 5664 cases were treated by
the Parochial Surgeons, at St. George's Hospital, the Royal
Pimlico Dispensary, the St. Paul and St. Barnabas Dispensary,
and at the Workhouse, Little Chelsea. Of these cases
3157 were patients at St. George's Hospital, leaving a
remainder of 2507.
We find that out of the 2507, 5 were cases of chicken
pox, 65 of measles, 34 of scarlatina, 43 of whooping cough,
484 of Diarrhoea, 7 of dysentery, 4 of cholera, 58 of continued
fever, 44 of rheumatic fever, 9 of erysipelas, and 5 of
diphtheria. There were also 187 cases of bronchitis, and 11
of pneumonia.
A case of choleraic diarrhoea occurred at No. 6, Skinner
Street on June 6th, when a complaint having been made of