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30, Upper Ebury Street; 105, Lupus Street; two children
at No. 3, Hindon Street; 1 girl of 14 in St.
George's Hospital from No. 114, Eccleston Mews,
(two deaths occurred from this cause at this place in the
preceding quarter; see No. IX. p. 6 ;) a young man
of 24, from No. 22, Eccleston Square, also was removed
to the Hospital, and died there; and two children, nonparishioners,
patients in the Hospital, caught the disease,
and died there of it. One case of putrid sore throat was
fatal at No. 4, Rutland Terrace. Of the diphtheria cases,
one child in Shepherd's Market; another at No. 34,
Upper Belgrave place; and an adult at No. 13, Little
Ebury Sreet; two children of an eminent surgeon near
Hanover Square; and one in Lancashire Court.
The deaths of the two children near Hanover Square,
one a girl of 10, in February, the other a boy of 8,
in March, were accompanied by severe illness and narrow
escape of other members of the same family, spite of the
fact that they were removed from the infected house
immediately after the first death (for an account of the
house see p. 20). Here we may remark on the fact that the
effect of the atmosphere of the house had long shown
itself in the impaired health of the children. The case
in Lancashire Court was that of a child of 2 years,' who
had measles, and gangrene of the mouth, and was finished
off by diphtherite; this shows the alliance of these low
diseases to each other, and it may be observed, that
diphtherite is now known to creep in at the close of the
puerperal and similar fevers.
Whooping-cough destroyed 20 lives—not many for
the season; dysentery, a major in the Ceylon Rifle æt. 45;
typhus, a male of 42, at the livery stable, No. 6, Park
Lane; and a maid-of-all-work, set. 18, in the hospital, from