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of diarrhoea at No. 3. No. 17, Little Grosvenor-street
contributed 7 cases of illness, including diarrhoea and
fever. There were 9 patients from No. 2, John's-court;
Robert-street also was very sickly.
In the Belgrave Sub-district, 6,410 persons were
treated by the Parochial Surgeons, at St. George's Hospital,
the Royal Pimlico Dispensary, the St. Paul's and
St. Barnabas' Dispensary, and at the Workhouse, Little
Chelsea.
Of these, 3,444 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 2,966.
We find that the total included 1 of small-pox, 18 of
chicken-pox, 6 of measles, 30 of scarlatina, 53 of whooping-cough,
113 of diarrhoea, 2 of dysentery, 35 of continued
fever, 65 of rheumatic fever, 12 of erysipelas,
1 of diphtheria, and 2 of ague, 1 of which occurred in a
non-parishioner at St. George's Hospital, and the other at
No. 2a, Commercial-road South.
There were 514 cases of bronchitis, 16 of pleurisy,
and 24 of pneumonia.
NUISANCES IN THE HANOVER AND MAYFAIR
SUB-DISTRICTS.
Cases in which Legal Proceedings were taken.
Lancashire-court, Nos. 2 and 3. There had been much
sickness in almost every house in the court, [although
they were subject to constant inspection; and these two
houses in particular were so thoroughly dirty and dilapidated,
and so unfit for the residence of any but the
most squalid and reckless persons, that it was determined