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on the books of the Branch dispensary, 48, Mount Street,
at •which two-thirds of the poor in the In-wards apply
for medical relief. Sore throats there have been in abundance;
but not one case that could fairly be called diphtherite.
Fever, in its varieties, infantile and typhoid, destroyed
9 persons; one a healthy child at 23, Grosvenor Market.
This house was constructed in the way most favourable for
generating disease, but now will be remodelled entirely.
Small-pox destroyed one child at a month old. This is
under the age at which vaccination is usually performed;
but the case shows, that in quarters where the disease
prevails, the operation should not be postponed.
Diseases of Degeneration, including scrofula, consumption,
teething, water in the head, and children's fits, destroyed
98 lives; besides that, 22 more were lost in
consequence of premature births, atrophy, and malformation.
Tetanus or Lock Jaw was fatal in three cases. One,
of a poor boy in the Hanover sub-district, who injured his
foot: and two cases of gentlemen in the Belgrave subdistrict,
after operations for the removal of tumors.
In the last division, we find three victims of misfortune
or carelessness, in the case of three infants smothered in
bed; and three victims of something worse: one infant
found in Hyde Park, one in Grosvenor Place, and one in a
cupboard in Mount Street.
H. The number of cases of sickness amongst the classes
who avail themselves of the medical charities in the InWards,
was 964 this quarter, against 856 in the last. Of
these, 173, or rather less than one-sixth of the whole, were
cases of bronchitis; 24 of diarrhoea; 27 of sore throat; 1