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lace. One newly-born infant was found in Hyde Park;
a labourer was found dead in Kensington Gardens, poisoned
by oxalic acid, without evidence to show by whom
it was administered; and a young man of 23, fell from a
window which he was cleaning in Conduit-street, and
was killed. Cheap iron balconies, affixed to the outside
of windows, so as to allow a man to stand in, would save
several lives annually in London. The Mosaic law
ordered safeguards in the like cases. A man was burned
to death owing to the rum from a cask which he was
tapping spirting upon the candle and catching fire; and
a boy of 13 was drowned whilst bathing in the Thames
at the Pimlico Pier.
II. THE SICKNESS.
In the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-districts, the number
of sick persons who availed themselves of gratuitous
medical attendance at the Dispensary, No. 48, Mountstreet,
or at the hands of the Parochial Medical Officers,
was 766. The numbers during the corresponding quarters
of the last five years have been 787, 1,126, 856, 781,
and now 766.
Out of the 766 cases, 162 were cases of bronchitis,
besides 1 of pleurisy. Scarlet fever and measles were
the most prevalent zymotic diseases, there being 32 cases
of the former, and 11 of the latter. Besides, there were
2 cases of chicken-pox, 19 of diarrhoea, and 13 of continued
fever. No case of small-pox occurred amongst the
gratuitous patients.
Here follows the usual list of the poorer streets, with
their population and amount of sickness:—