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of children; and it is note-worthy that thirteen out of
the seventeen deaths from diarrhoea were of infants under
five.
As to the district mortality, we find that the Hanover
and Mayfair have less than their share of mortality,
owing, doubtless, to the smaller birth-rate, and lesser
number of children.
Amongst the deaths, considered in the order of their
causes, we are bound to notice two from small pox: one
of a lady, set. 56, daughter of an Earl, residing in
Grosvenor-place, who had been vaccinated when a child
and revaccinated at the age of fourteen; there was a particularly
good cicatrix upon the arm. It could not be
ascertained how she caught the disease, but she was very
much in the habit of attending upon the poor. The other,
a girl of 8, the daughter of a butler, at 22, Ecclestonplace,
never vaccinated.
The deaths from measles, 20, are heavy for the season.
Scarlatina was fatal in 13 cases, including one at 9, Queenstreet,
Oxfurd-street,; 14, Shepherd's-market, where a
child died from spinal disease some months after it; at
4 and 5, Robert-street, Pimlico; 19 and 23, Grosvenorrow;
two cases at 1, Princes-row-west; 1, Churton-place;
29, Hugh-street-west; 24, West-street; and 4, Newstreet.
One case of diphtheria was fatal in a girl of 4,
at 3, Sutherland-street. Typhoid fever was fatal to a
girl of 14, at the Rising Sun, Charles-street, Berkeleysquare,
the cause absolutely unknown; and to a young
man of 22, who slept in a kitchen at 1, Mountrow,
just after the ground had been disturbed by the
removal of old dilapidated drains; also at 39, Westmoreland-street;
and to the wife of a tradesman, st. 20,
at 134, Stanley-street. Of the 17 deaths from diarrhoea,
dysentery, and cholera, 14 were those of children in the