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TO THE
Vestry of St. George, Banober Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I. The deaths for the quarter ending July 2nd, 1859,
amounted to 421, including the deaths of 65 non-parishioners
in St. George's Hospital, and of 6 inmates of the
Little Chelsea Workhouse, so that the actual mortality is
350, whilst the births have been 547.
The deaths during the corresponding period of 1858
were 479, so that the present mortality is less by 58 than
that of the previous Midsummer Quarter.
On examining the table of mortality, we see at once
that the deaths from measles in the two quarters compared
were as 16 to 4, and from whooping-cough as 27 to 9 ;
but the deaths from scarlet fever, diphtheria, and sorethroat,
are as 28 to 17.
Of these last named maladies 11 are recorded as due
to diphtheria; 3 in the Hanover, 6 in the Belgrave subdistrict,
and 2 non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital.
The houses in which the deaths from diphtheria occurred
were No. 18, Union Street, Bond Street, a girl of 1 year,
living over livery stable ; a boy of 10 months, No. 18,
Lancashire Court; and a girl of 5 years, No. 17, Hanover
Place, close to the house 299, Oxford Street, mentioned