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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

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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Table: Concerning the places where sickness prevailed, the following is a list of the worst districts:—

Concerning the places where sickness prevailed, the following is a list of the worst districts:—

Population.Total Parish patients.Deaths of children.Deaths of adults
Model Lodgings130400
Blomfield Buildings1302000
Brick Street296401
Brown Street2005712
Carrington Street2801811
George Street, Grosvenor Square, and George Yard15404731
Grosvenor Market2111000
Grosvenor Mews9445810
Hertford Place2002621
John's Court, Farm Street801800
Lancashire Court2703700
May's Buildings1221000
Mount Row and Place133900
North Bruton Mews1542410
Hart Street2651813
Queen Street, Oxford Street3161110
Robert Street, Grosvenor Square5433911
Thomas Street6006560

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Thomas Street has been particularly sickly; three
children died at No. 4, of convulsions, spinal irritation,
and diarrhoea; one at No. 5, of brain disease; one at No.
28, of scarlet fever; and one prematurely born at No. 32.
In George Street, two children died of diarrhoea at No.
8; and like Hart Street, and the other crowded streets
between Grosvenor Square and Oxford Street, it was
very sickly. No. 17, Little Grosvenor Street contributed
sixteen cases; 30 and 30a, Grosvenor Mews, fifteen
patients; Lancashire Court contributed its quota. Of
No. 30, Thomas Street, Mr. Bloxam, the very able and
experienced parochial surgeon, says, that for the last
25 years it has been the haunt of zymotic disease; and