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No. 6, Moreton-street West, No. 1, Kempe's-row, and
No. 61, Charlwood-street. Among the violent deaths we
notice two from burns, one in a child aged 6 years, her
clothes having been ignited by a spark from a wood fire,
and the second in a girl aged 5 years, whose body was
burnt by her clothes igniting from a fire in the grate, at
No. 4, John's-court, Berkeley-square. A female aged 32,
who resided at No. 3, Upper Eaton-street, was poisoned by
prussic acid, but it could not be ascertained how or by whom
it was administered. Two persons, a man and woman, aged
respectively 44 and 36, were drowned by accident in the
river Thames, Thames Bank; and there were three suicides
in adults, aged 36, 48, and 55, when insane; two wounded
themselves with razors, one at No. 6, Shepherd's-market,
and the other at St. George's Workhouse, Mount-street,
and the third died from strangulation. A child, aged 14
days, died from natural causes.
Sickness.
In the Hanover and May Fair Sub-Districts, the
number of persons treated gratuitously by the Parochial
and Dispensary Medical Officers, was 883.
Amongst the cases were 1 of chicken pox; 23 of
measles; scarlatina 1; whooping cough 21; diarrhœa 23;
ague 1; continued fever 10; erysipelas 2; bronchitis and
catarrh 152; diphtherite 1.
The houses in which noticeable illness prevailed, were
Robert-street, No. 1, measles; No. 5, diphtheria; No. 17,
fever; No. 18, diarrhoea; No. 18a and 26, fever: Brownstreet.,
No. 16, fever: North Bruton-mews, No. 18½, scabies:
Brick-street, No. 19, diarrhœa and erysipelas: Avery-row,
13a, fever: George-street, Nos. 15 and 22, diarrhœa; No.