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TO THE
Vestry of St. George, Hanover Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I. During the first quarter of the present year, 528
deaths were registered in the parish; during the second
quarter, 479; during the third quarter, 412; and now,
during the fourth quarter, comprising 14 weeks, ending 1st
January, 1859, 490 deaths have been recorded in the
parish.
This number gives a weekly average of 35, whereas the
weekly average (for 10 years) was 29.75, but allowance
must be made for increase of population.
The 490 deaths, include those of 60 non-parishioners in
St. George's Hospital, and of 12 inmates of the Workhouse
at Little Chelsea; so that the net mortality of the parish
was 419 ; against which may be set the 595 births during
the same 14 weeks.
Scarlatina with diphtheria, quinsy, and pharingitis,
destroyed 32 lives this quarter, against 33 in the corresponding
quarter of last year. Deaths from diphtheria occurred
at 5, Victoria Square; 1, Lower Belgrave Place;
3, Erin Place; 9, Wallis' Yard; 41, Moreton Place, and at
Swan Passage; 6, North Row, and 2 at 299 Oxford Street.
The disease at 1, Lower Belgrave Place was imported
there; the patient died after having nursed three nephews,