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No. 43, Camera Square, Chelsea. The wife and child of a
journeyman plumber in Shepherd's Court, and of a builder
in Eaton place West, died soon after confinement.
The deaths from moral causes are numerous, including
three suicides: the wife of a licensed victualler, æt. 55;
a potman, æt. 45 ; and a merchant's clerk, Eet. 31. Three
children were scalded by boiling liquid upset over them;
two were burned through playing with lighted paper ; one
by a hot poker which fell from a fire; three other children
were burned to death in various ways. One child was
killed by falling from banisters, over which he was astride
at play. Three new-born infants were made away with
summarily, by being drowned; and three others, viz., the
child of a housemaid, of a widow, and of a female of no
occupation, perished more slowly from want of breast milk.
A builder's clerk and fencing master died from delirium
tremens.
II. Sickness.—Hanover and May Fair.—The number
of persons who received medical attendance from the Parochial
and Dispensary Medical Officers this quarter, was 947.
Of this number 196, or about one fifth were affected with
bronchitis; 19 with diarrhœa; 30 with whooping cough;
11 with measles; 3 with chicken pox; 12 with small pox;
22 with fever of various degrees of severity, but usually
very mild; 5 with scarlatina; 3 with ague; and only 1
with diphtherite, at Lancashire Court; this last named
malady, and the sore throat so prevalent last year are now
less frequently heard of.
Ague has been prevalent this winter in the western
outskirts of London: of the three cases here mentioned,
one was that of a boy at 9, George Street, Grosvenor
Square, who was attacked by a regular old fashioned