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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 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Table: Here follows the usual table of the number of sick cases contributed by the worst parts of the Hanover and Mayfair Districts:—

Here follows the usual table of the number of sick cases contributed by the worst parts of the Hanover and Mayfair Districts:—

Population.Cases of illness attended gratuitously.Deaths of children.Deaths of adults.
Model Lodgings130700
Blomfield Buildings130700
Brick Street2961100
Brown Street2003510
Carrington Street2801010
GeorgeStreet,Grosvenor Square5403601
Grosvenor Market2111900
Grosvenor Mews9445311
Hart Street265611
Hertford Place2002440
John's Court, Farm Street801700
Lancashire Court2703031
May's Buildings122500
Mount Row and Place1331400
North Bruton Mews1542701
Queen Street3161602
Robert Street, Grosvenor Sq.5432920
Thomas Street, Grosvenor Sq.6003400

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Amongst the most sickly houses, were Nos. 66, 67,
and 68, Davies-street; No. 11, North-row; No. 17, Little
Grosvenor-street (which furnished 10 cases of illness); No.
10, Grosvenor-mews (which also furnished 10 cases); No.
2, John's-court; and No. 2, Tom's-court.
In the Belgrave Sub-district, 5,717 persons were
treated by the Parochial Surgeons, at St. George's Hospital,
the Royal Pimlico Dispensary, the St. Paul's and
St. Barnabas' Dispensary, and at the Workhouse, Little
Chelsea.
Of these, 3,098 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 2,629.
We find that the total included 4 of small-pox, 14 of
chicken-pox, 54 of measles, 62 of scarlatina, 17 of whooping-cough,
142 of diarrhoea, 3 of dysentery, 30 of