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Hanover Square 1862

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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bourne-place, Ranelagh-cottages, Hanover-street, Charlwood-place,
Caroline-street, Whitaker-street, Upper
Ebury-street, Eaton-mews West, and Pulford-street.
Deaths from scarlet fever were registered as having
taken place in Thomas-street, Duke-street, Mount-street,
New Bond-street, Belgrave-mews East, Wilton-mews,
Gillingham-street, Glasgow-terrace, Hanover-street, Brewer-street,
Churton-place, Cumberland-street, Caledoniaplace,
Hindon-terrace, Stockbridge-terrace, Allingtonstreet,
Windsor terrace, and Hindon-place.
Diphtheria proved fatal to a boy of 5 in Steel's-court,
a boy of 3 in Queen's-street, Oxford-street, a girl of 2 in
Chapel-yard, a child of 6 months in Street's-buildings, a
man of 38, a journeyman painter, in the Workhouse
Mount-street, a boy of 1 in Ebury-mews, a man of 53 in
Hugh-street, a girl of 1 in Hugh-street West, and a child
in Little Chester-street.
A death from quinsy occurred in Swan-passage, and
another in Denbigh-street, and one from sore throat in
Berwick-street.
Deaths from croup happened in the following streets,
namely, Thomas-street, Ranelagh-street, Bridge-row,
Denbigh-street, Union-street, and the Queen's Royalmews.
A death from small-pox occurred at No. 2, Robertstreet,
Pimlico, November 22, in a man aged 30, unvaccinated,
who worked on the premises lately occupied
by Mr. Kelk. The patient would not be removed to
the Small Pox Hospital. A house to housg visitation
was made in the street, and the few children who required
it, were vaccinated by Mr. Jorden.
Typhus fever proved fatal to the widow of a butler in
Chapel-street, to a young lady in Brook-street,—a child in