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Hanover Square 1859

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

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II. Sickness. — The number of cases of sickness
relieved by the usual public institutions in the Hanover
and May Fair sub-districts has been 833, against 964 in
the preceding quarter of this year, and 1,030 in the corresponding
quarter of last year.
Amongst these were 107 cases, being about an eighth
of the whole, of catarrh and bronchitis, or what is popularly
called cold, 27 of diarrhoea, 22 of fever or febricula,
2 of small-pox, 10 of measles, 1 of diphtheria, 5 of scarlatina,
and 22 of sore-throat of various kinds, some cases
being dependent on the scarlatina poison.

Concerning theplaceswhere sickness prevailed, we present, as before, the following table of the most thickly peopled districts.

Population.Total Parish patients.Deaths of children.Deaths of adults.
Moder Lodgings1302311
Blomfield Buildings1301800
Brick Street206411
Brown Street2003411
Carrington Street2801211
GeorgeStreet,Grosvenor Square, and George Yard| 5404722
Grosvenor Market211601
Grosvenor Mews9444232
Hertford Place2002400
John's Court, Farm Street801100
May's Buildings122801
Mount Row and Place1331802
North Bruton Mews154010
Street's Buildings79400
Queen Street, Oxford Street3161704
Robert Street, Grosvenor Square5432300
Thomas Street6005220
Lancashire Court2703730