Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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of diphtherite; 37 of fever, including some very mild cases;
3 of measles; and 7 of scarlatina. The illness for the most
part was not severe, and the excess over the last quarter
chiefly due to the increase of bronchitis and catarrh.
Continuing the plan adopted in previous Reports, we
present the number of cases which were furnished by each of
the following thickly peopled quarters.
Deaths of children Deaths of adults
Population. Total parish patients
Model Lodgings 130 10 0 0
Bloomfield Buildings 130 21 0 0
Brick Street 296 9 0 0
Brown Street 200 46 0 2
Carrington Street 280 21 2 0
George Street, Grosvenor Square 540 42 1 0
Grosvenor Market 211 7 11
Grosvenor Mews 944 57 1 2
Hertford Place 200 23 1 0
John's Court, Farm Street 80 25 0 0
May's Buildings 122 12 0 0
Mount Row and Place 133 17 1 0
North Bruton Mews 154 18 0 1
Street's Buildings 79 2 0 0
Queen Street 316 10 1 1
Robert Street, Grosvenor Square 543 35 3 1
Thomas Street 600 62 4.0
In the Belgrave sub-district, 5,988 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 cases, 3,441 were patients at St. George's
Hospital, leaving a remainder of 2,547.
Among the zymotic diseases, 3 were cases of small-pox,
11 of chicken-pox, 3 of measles, 22 of scarlatina, 31 of
whooping cough, 93 of diarrhoea, 2 of dysentery, 5 of ague,