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In the Belgrave Sub-District, 5,637 persons were treated
by the Parochial Surgeons, at St. George's Hospital, the
Royal Pimlico Dispensary, and the St. Paul's and St. Barnabas
Dispensary, and at the Workhouse Little Chelsea.
Of these, 3,372 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 2,265.
We find, that the total included 6 of small-pox, 19 of
chicken-pox, 61 of measles, 40 of scarlatina, 19 of whooping
cough, 1 of croup, 272 of diarrhoea, 3 of dysentery,
47 of continued fever, 33 of rheumatic fever, 1 of diphtheria,
and 14 of erysipelas.
There were 212 cases of bronchitis, 12 of pleurisy,
and 16 of pneumonia. Of the ague patients, one came
to the Hospital from No. 47, Warwick-street, Pimlico,
another lived at No. 2, Spring-garden-place, and the
third was a non-parishioner.
The 6 cases of small-pox occurred at the following
places, viz.: 1 at No. 4, Ranelagh-row, (sent to Mountstreet,
and thence to the Hospital;) 1 at No. 5, Ecclestonplace;
3 at 22, Eccleston-place; and 1 at 50, Upper
Ebury-street.
III. BAKEHOUSES.
Some defects which were ascertained to exist in six of
the bakehouses in the in-wards have been remedied.
On the evening of the 10th of September, a large
party of the bakers in the in-wards assembled, by invitation,
at Dr. Druitt's, in order to discuss the various points
in which the baking trade is alleged to be injurious to the
health and welfare of the men employed in it. Dr. Aldis,
and Dr. Chalice of Bermondsey, were present. On the