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diarrhoea, 16 were children under 5, and 2 aged persona
above 60.
With the deaths of these 16 children from diarrhoea,
must be classed those of 10 who died of want of breastmilk,
in other words, want of power in those who had the
charge of them to find a food which they should be able
to digest. Amongst these were three infants in the Little
Chelsea Workhouse; but then it must be remembered
that the condition in which these children often are when
they are brought into that establishment is such as to
defy any care or skill on the part of those who nurse
them. A child who having been for a time neglected, is
then drugged to keep it quiet, packed up in a basket and
left in the street, where it is sometimes exposed to
drenching rain before it is discovered, has so little vitality
that all efforts to save it are often fruitless.
The deaths from measles are but 3; scarlatina, diphtheria,
croup, and sore throat together produced 25 deaths.
This number is about the usual average of the corresponding
quarters. The places where these deaths chiefly
occurred are Grosvenor-cottages, Robert-street Belgravia,
Morton-place, Philips-place, Ebury-square, Ranelagh-gardens,
Coleshill-street, and others amongst the lower part
of the Belgrave Sub-district. During this quarter the
Hanover and May-fair Sub-districts have been comparatively
free from these diseases.
Yet there have been deaths from diphtheria in Hay'smews,
Grovenor-mews, Woodstock-street, and Daviesmews.
There were 17 deaths from fever of various kinds.
Amongst these four were non-parishioners in St. George's
Hospital; one girl of 15, who was brought from 6, Boyd'sgardens,
to the workhouse, Mount-street, and died there ;