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Pimlico; 12, Glasgow Terrace; 9, Ranelagh Road; 25,
Churton Street; 1, Thames Parade; 5 and 47, Gloucester
Street. Sixteen deaths from the same disease were tabulated
in same period last year. There were 4 cases of pyaemia, 1
of which proved fatal in a cook, aged 35, after secondary
vaccination. Among the violent deaths we observe 2 from
burns and scalds, and 5 from drowning, 1 of which occurred in
the Serpentine, while the deceased was swimming, 2 from
accidents, (1 a boy in the Grosvenor Canal while running on
the wall, the other in the Thames,) another from suicide in
Eccleston Mews, and the fifth, a female, aged 18, who was
found in the Thames with marks of violence on her body. A
child, aged 2 months, died at 6, Whitaker Street, from suffocation
while in bed with the mother and father, who were
intoxicated.
Fractures proved fatal to 11 persons, 8 of whom were nonparishioners.
A servant was sent from 3, Hereford Street, to the Fever
Hospital, on June 23, and died on the 31st.
A servant went from 56, New Bond Street, to the same
Hospital, and died.
II. The Sickness.—In the Hanover and Mayfair subdistricts,
the number of cases attended gratuitously, was 711,
against 833 in the corresponding quarter of last year. There
were 9 cases of small-pox, 1 of chicken-pox, 6 of measles,
9 of scarlatina, 22 of whooping cough, 12 of fever, 2 erysipelas,
20 diarrhoea, and 86 bronchitis.
There were sent to the Small-pox Hospital, during the
quarter:—
1860, April 4, Harriet P., set. 22, 8, Mount Row.
„ 18, Catherine S., set. 14, 9, Lancashire
Court.