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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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tertian, without any detectable cause; the other two cases
were from the country.
Of the small pox cases, there were sent to the Smallpox
Hospital:
1859—Dec. 29. Margaret A., set 26, from 43, Davies
Street, vaccinated.
1860—Feb. 11. Thomas S., set 25, 6, Brown Street.
„ Mar. 26. James T., at 20, Rose and Crown,
Hart Street.
The following cases were received into a special set of
Wards opened at the Workhouse, Mount Street:
I860—Jan. 26. George B., set 15, 3, Tom's Court,
not vaccinated.
„ Feb. 27. Edward R., set 20, 29, Grosvenor
Mews, vaccinated.
„ Mar. 3. Caroline J., set 22, 6, Pollen Street,
vaccinated, with her infant, not vaccinated,
which died of the disease.
„ Mar. 17. Jane A., set 18, vaccinated, 18, Queen
Street, Oxford Street.
Of the cases of small-pox treated at home, we may
enumerate that of a young man, set 20, 5 Jan., 1860, who
came from the country in search of a place as groom, and
was lodging with, and occupying one apartment with his
married sister and her husband, at 10, Chapel Street East.
How such an arrangement could be tolerated by decent
persons, not destitute, is past conception; but it is right
to say that it was without the knowledge or consent of
the highly respectable tradesman to whom the house belongs,
and who put a stop to it, as soon as he knew it.
The patient had been vaccinated, and the disease was mild.
A girl, set 16,5th February, at Hertford Stables, Brick