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Two elderlywomen committed suicide; one by hanging,
the other by drowning; and a man who was dying of
phthisis cut his throat ineffectually, inasmuch as he recovered
from the wound sufficiently to die a natural death
from the disease. A young man of 24 was drowned
whilst skating; 1 servant was killed by falling from a
board supported on a ladder whilst cleaning a skylight;
another in trying to open a window fell into the yard; a
journeyman baker fell and broke his neck whilst carrying
a sack of flour down stairs; and 5 other men died of
broken bones from falls in the discharge of their daily
duties, as mechanics or labourers. Besides these must be
mentioned a newly-born infant found in Hyde Park,
which appeared to have died a natural death.
II. THE SICKNESS.
The number of persons who received gratuitous medical
attendance this quarter at the Dispensary in Mount-street,
and at the hands of the parochial surgeons, was 913.
Last year the number was 947 in the corresponding
quarter. Out of the 913, 175 were affected with bronchitis;
27, rather a large number, with.diarrhoea, 19 with
measles, 1 with small-pox, 2 chicken-pox, 2 scarlatina,
4 whooping cough, 1 dysentery, 1 cholera, 13 continued
fever, 1 erysipelas, 1 diphtherite, and 1 pleurisy.
The case of small pox occurred in a boy, vaccinated,
named Adams, set. 6, of 26, Blomfield-place. The disease
was mild. He caught it apparently at the Catholic School,
Davies'-mews, by infection from an unvaccinated child,
whose parents reside at No. 2, Oxford-house, Grosvenormarket,
and have but lately come into the parish. An