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to the
Vestry of St. Geogre, Honober Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I.—During the thirteen weeks ending December
31st, 1859, 429 deaths occurred, including those of 8
inmates at Little Chelsea, and of 58 non-parishioners in
St. George's Hospital.
The weekly average 33, exceeds that of the preceding
ten years by 3 ; but we are happy to state that the
total deaths during the Quarter, when compared with
those which occurred in the corresponding periods of
1857 and 1858, are less by 74, although the population
has increased.
Diseases of the respiratory organs, including 56 from
consumption, destroyed 133 persons.
Amongst the deaths which deserve a passing notice,
we find that of a foreign nobleman, set 54, on the 1st
December, 1859, at the Clarendon Hotel, of confluent
small-pox. This death was one of the first palpable signs
of that almost universal outbreak, which it will soon be
our duty to chronicle. There is no reason for supposing
that the disease was contracted in the hotel; on the contrary,
as it requires a space of at least eight days from