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Hanover Square 1858

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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still in statu quo; 3, 8, and 9, Lancashire Court, have been
sickly; No. 5, Brown Street has furnished nine patients;
No. 8, Carrington Street has yielded 4; and No. 10, six
patients.
Respecting Grosvenor Market, of which No. 21 yielded
six; Nos. 22 and 23, yielded two patients each; it is most
gratifying to state that the "Parochial Association for improving
the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes," has taken
Nos. 21 and 22, and is going to cleanse and make them
wholesome, and to admit a proper number of tenants. Everyone
who knows the locality will admit that this is a most
substantially good move for the benefit of the rate-payers.
In the Belgrave sub-district, 6487 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 eases
3318 were patients at St. George's Hospital, leaving a
remainder of 3169.
Among the zymotic diseases, 8 were cases of small-pox,
21 of chicken-pox, 10 of measles, 25 of scarlatina, 31 of
whooping cough, 1 of croup, 124 of diarrhœa, 3 of dysentery,
2 of ague, 42 of continued fever, 52 of rheumatic fever, 15 of
erysipelas, and 4 of diphtherite. There were also 636 cases
of bronchitis, and 22 of pneumonia.
It will be seen in the context that active means were
taken to prevent the extension of small-pox.
III. The following are some of the details of matters
which have been brought before the local authority during
the quarter. Before giving them we would remark, that
they are the result of two collateral but totally distinct lines
of enquiry. In the first place there is the investigation of
nuisances, which is instituted in consequence of the