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Amongst the zymotic diseases, we notice measles fatal
to 9 children, exclusively of the poorer class in the
Hanover sub-district, and to 1 in Belgravia. Scarlatina
destroyed 2 children in the May-fair sub-district; at 4,
Old Bond-street, and 4, John's-court ; and 16 in the
Belgrave: viz.—at 20, Sutherland-street; 3 at 16, Wallace's-yard;
144, Cambridge-street; 24, Queen-street;
14, Lower Belgrave-place; 3, York-place; 2, Ecclestonstreet,
South; 39, Cumberland-street; 49, Tachbrookstreet;
2 at 47, Coleshill-street; and 2 at 47, Eburystreet.
Scarlatina is more fatal to persons of a higher
class than the measles. A death from diphtheria took place
at 35, Maddox-street, (see report No. XIII.;) others at 6,
Gloucester-street; 15, Burton-street; 8, Graham-street,
West; and 14, Whitaker-street.
Six women died after childbirth; 1 a young woman,
æt. 20, at 22, Hay's-mews; 1 at 2, Street's-buildings,
from cold after an exhausting labour; 3 others from exhaustion
after labour; and 1 from puerperal fever.
The deaths from accidental causes are numerous and
instructive. One child of 7 months was suffocated in
bed with its parents; 1 of 2 weeks died of shock from
cold; 5 at least are said to owe their death to dry nursing;
and 7 were burned or scalded. One child at 30a, Grosvenor-mews
pulled a cup of hot tea over himself from a
table; another drank hot water from a kettle; the son
of a blacksmith was burned at the forge; the clothes of a
girl at school caught fire at the grate; a boy of 5 the
same, from reaching something on the mantelpiece ;
another," the manner not known "; and a poor girl of 16,
a servant, set her clothes on fire by the heater of a tea
urn. Besides these, a dressmaker fell into the fire when
fainting.