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The places in which measles proved fatal, were Nos.
1, 6, and 11, Hertford-place : No. 9, Carrington-street;
No. 3, Grantham-place; and No. 1, Bishop's-yard, Charlesstreet,
in the In-Wards: and No. 12, Flask-row; No.
16, Effingham-street; No. 4, Whitaker-street; Nos. 13
and 19, New Grosvenor-place; and No. 18, Eburycottages,
Ebury-square. Of course, in these cases, the
residence indicates the condition of life of the parents,
and shows the precise influences which render epidemic
diseases fatal to children. The question to be solved
is,—will greater care, a more intelligent manner of
feeding and nursing, a more thrifty mode of expending
the weekly wages, and something like increased
knowledge of the laws of life, enable the artizan, even if
continuing at the present rate of wages, to rear his
children with less mortality? We believe that they will;
and that the mortality from the measles is capable of
being greatly reduced, and especially by ventilation.
Scarlatina proved fatal at No. 26, Robert-street, Grosvenor-square;
No. 6, Lancashire-court; and No. 56,
New Bond-street, in the In-Wards: and at No. 55,
Hanover-street; No. 2, Princes-row West; No. 34,
Eccleston-place; No. 21, Berwick-street; No. 24, Coleshill-street;
No. 16, Sutherland-street; and No. 8, Eccleston-place.
Diphtheria, at No. 96, Mount-street; No.
35, Maddox-street; and at No. 12, Flask-lane. There
were in each of these three cases circumstances which
tend to create, or to aggravate, illness.
Under the head of violent deaths, we notice four
suicides ascribed to insanity. A gentleman destroyed himself
with a razor; a hatter suffocated himself by fumes
of charcoal; a tallow-chandler drowned himself in the
Serpentine; and a woman strangled herself with a stay-