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In the Belgrave sub-district 5596 cases were treated
by the parochial surgeons, at St. George's Hospital, the
Royal Pimlico Dispensary, and the St. Paul and St.
Barnabas' Dispensary, and at the Workhouse, Little
Chelsea. Of these cases 3323 were patients at St.
George's Hospital, leaving a remainder of 2273. During
the preceding quarter 5,988 cases were treated at the
same institutions, and 6283 in the corresponding quarter of
last year.
Included in the above were 63 of measles, 15 of chickenpox,
19 of scarlatina, 25 of whooping-cough, 207 of
diarrhoea, 35 of continued fever, 53 of rheumatic fever,
15 of erysipelas, and 4 of diphtheria.
There were also 315 cases of bronchitis, and 9 of
pneumonia. »
Small-pox and Vaccination.—It will be observed in the
sequel that this complaint occurred in a house, the sanitary
condition of which was faulty, and that the threatening of
taking proceedings in some instances of neglected vaccination
had a good effect.
The small-pox appeared in a crowded lodging-house,
No. 27, Thomas Street, about the 25tli April, in a
lodger, and in two young persons of the family. All
had been vaccinated, and the disease was mild. About
the same time a child, not a resident, was said to be
affected with it, at No. 1, South Molton Lane; but the
disease was afterwards pronounced not to be small-pox.
This being the time of year at which the malady
generally makes its appearance, and the locality being
precisely one of those in which the medical gentlemen
who have charge of the poor state that it commonly commences,
it appeared necessary, after taking measures to
extinguish the contagion in its birth-place, to set on foot