Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Minera-street, Pimlico, No. 8. A young lady, vacci
nated, was attacked with small-pox after scarlet fever.
House clean.
Wilton-street, No. 8. A fatal case of confluent smal.
pox after vaccination, occurred here in a surgeon aged 34.
The disease was imparted through a relative, who came
to the house from the country. The occupier of No. 1
complained of the bedding being beaten behind the infected
house, which the Medical Officer of Health stopped,
A quantity of dung and garbage has been removec
from the following places, viz.:—Victoria Railway-station,
Wilton-road, Pimlico; Mr. Green's Cow-yard, Eaton-row;
Mr. Clayton's Yards in Hugh-street and Rutland-street, Lupusstreet;
Mr. Henry Wise's Cow-yard, Elizabeth-street South;
Yard, Ranelagh-cottages, Commercial-road; Westbourne-street,
No. 95; Upper Denbigh-mews, Denbigh-street; Lowndesstreet,
Belgrave-square, No. 9; Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place,
No. 30; Eaton-row, Nos. 4 and 6; Mr. Hatt's Cow-yard,
Brewer-street, Pimlico.
WATER.
Dr. Aldis directed the notice of the Committee to a
letter which had appeared in the Daily Telegraph of March
26th, calling the attention of the water-drinkers of Chelsea
to the fact, that the parishioners of Walton-on-Thames
were going to add a new burial ground to the churchyard,
and to drain through the old yard into the Thames. For
more than 800 years the old yard has been used for interments,
and the ground has been turned over and over so
many times, that there can be but little earth remaining,
which is not filled up with remains. It is further
remarked, that if every parish along the banks of