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who fell victims to the same complaint at Esher and Blackheath.
Infantile fever and continued or typhoid fevers destroyed,
17 lives, so that with others 88 deaths happened
from zymotic disease. Lung diseases, as bronchitis, pneumonia,
and asthma, have destroyed 94 persons during a
period in which great variations of temperature occurred.
Among the violent deaths, nine were produced by burns
and scalds; five from want of breast milk; one from suffocation
; and two persons committed suicide by drowning
themselves when insane.
II. Passing on to the sickness, we find that 856 persons
in the Hanover and May Fair sub-districts, during the
quarter, availed themselves of gratuitous medical attendance
from the Medical Officers of the parish, and of the Dispensary.
This number gives a very inadequate representation
of the whole amount of sickness amongst the humbler classes,
and of the amount of medical attendance provided by public
and private charity; but it represents the sickness of one
section of the people pretty uniformly. Amongst these cases
were two of small pox; one in an adult; one very mild in
a vaccinated infant, eight months old, who brought the disease
from Norwich, where she had contracted it from a very
severe case amongst children whose parents would not allow
them to be vaccinated. Of measles, only one case appears.
Of scarlatina, eight. Of diphtherite, only three cases appear;
one at 28, Brook's Mews ; one at 18, North Bruton Mews;
and one at 5, Adam's Mews. A large number of cases of
other throat affections, under the titles, quinsy, tonsillitis,
&c. Of whooping cough five cases only; and four of pneumonia
appear. 118 cases, or a seventh of the whole amount
of illness, was due to bronchitis; and there were 33 cases of