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Hamilton-mews,—a woman in Hart-street,—a girl in
Cumberland-street,—a boy in Eaton-place,—a plumber
in Upper Ebury-street,—and a missionary in Moretonplace.
There were ten deaths from diarrhoea.
Lung diseases have destroyed 84 persons, and 43 died
of consumption.
The following Table shows the number of deaths in
the parish from the same causes during the fourth quarter
of the preceding four years:
Lung diseases in 1858 . 95 Consumption 53
„ „ 1859 . 77 „ 56
„ „ 1860 . 69 „ 46
1861 . 71 „ 64
Five persons died from the effects of intemperance;
viz., a gentleman aged 27 from delirium tremens, a
licensed victualler aged 44, a broker's man aged 46, a
coachman, a non-parishioner who died in the hospital,
and besides these a woman aged 56.
Two persons died from fractures and four from burns
and scalds in St. George's Hospital. Five of them were
non-parishioners.
Among the deaths from causes not specified or illdefined
are included those of seven infants, 3 of whom
were found dead and decomposed in Hyde-park, 1 in
Cumberland-street, another in Upper Belgrave-terrace,
1 in the Workhouse Mount-street, and 1 in Grafton-street.
Three infants were overlaid, one in Robert-street,
Grosvenor-square, another 4 months old in Brick-street,
when in bed with its parents, and a third in Robert-street,
who was suffocated when in bed with its mother and putative
father.