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Five persons committed suicide while of unsound
mind, a carpenter drowned himself in the river Thames,
a gentleman threw himself out of window, the third, a
young man, took cyanide of potassium, a carman hung
himself by a strap to the door-post of a closet, from insanity
produced by intemperance, and a postman hung
himself by a rope to a bedstead.
The number of patients in the Hanover and May-fair
Sub-Districts who received gratuitous medical attendance
during the quarter, from the Parochial Surgeons, from
the Dispensary, Mount-street., and at the Workhouse,
was 924, of whom 4 were affected with small-pox, 5
with chicken-pox, 25 with measles, 55 with scarlatina,
2 with diphtheria, 22 with whooping-cough, 41 with
diarrhoea, 24 with continued fever, 174 with bronchitis
and catarrh, and 1 with pneumonia.
The four cases of small-pox occurred in a family residing
in Bloomfield-place. The malady was brought
home by one of the sons aged 13, who works in Soho,
and it spread to three of his brothers. All had been remarkably
well vaccinated in infancy and probably owed
their lives to this. The various apartments in Bloomfieldplace
were visited, and one child, found not to have been
vaccinated, was sent to Mr. Jay to be made safe forthwith.
In the Belgrave Sub-District 6529 persons were treated
by the Parochial Surgeons, and 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 3117 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 3412.
We find the total number included 15 cases of chickenpox,
48 of scarlet fever, 56 of measles, 75 of whoopingcough,
138 of diarrhoea, I of dysentery, 66 of continued