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Hospital, who poisoned himself with corrosive sublimate
when insane. An infant was supposed to have been
suffocated while in bed with its mother at No. 38, Churtonstreet;
another was found under the boards of the landing
at No. 2, St. George's-square, supposed to have been
there more than two years. Besides these, 2 infants were
found dead in Hyde Park, a third in South Audley-street,
a fourth with the body mutilated in the Chelsea Hospital
Grounds, a fifth at the shrubbery in Grosvenor-road, and
a sixth was found dead in Hyde Park from hemorrhage
from the umbilical cord.
During this quarter, the number of persons, who have
received medical attendance from the Parochial Surgeons,
at the Dispensary, and in the sick wards of the Workhouse
Mount-street has been 848.
Amongst them were 22 cases of measles, 5 of scarlatina,
10 of whooping-cough, 25 of diarrhoea, 1 of dysentery,
13 of continued fever, 2 of erysipelas, 96 of bronchitis
and catarrh, 4 of diphtheria, and 1 of pneumonia.
The places which attracted most attention from the
number of cases of sickness in them were George-street,
Robert-street, Hart-street, Grosvenor-mews, and several
houses in Lancashire-court.
In the Belgrave Sub-district, 6776 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, 3828 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 2948.
We find that the total included 18 of chicken-pox,
6 of measles, 27 of scarlet-fever, 22 of whooping-cough,
129 of diarrhoea, 3 of dysentery, 70 of continued fever,