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Two men committed suicide. One a non-parishioner
who took essential oil of bitter almonds when insane,
died in the hospital; the other a coachman aged 35,
drowned himself in the serpentine.
In the Hanover and May-fair sub-districts, the number
of persons who received gratuitous medical attendance at
the Dispensary in Mount-street, at the hands of the Parochial
Surgeons, and in the Sick Wards of the Workhouse,
was 1010.
Amongst these were 1 case of small-pox, 22 of measles,
11 of scarlet fever, 7 of whooping-cough, 22 of diarrhoea,
1 of dysentery, 15 of continued fever, 4 of erysipelas,
231 of bronchitis, 5 of diphtheria, 1 each of pneumonia
and pleurisy, and 24 of various kinds of sore throat.
The case of small-pox was that of a woman aged 46,
wlio resided in Bermuda-street, Mile-end, where she contracted
this disease, and came in a street cab, ill with it, to
a sister's at No. 10, Robert-street, Grosvenor-square, on
the 17th December. On the next day she was sent in the
parish conveyance to the Small-pox Hospital. It may be
permitted to state that she returned to Robert-street on
the 5th January, and that an adult man in that house has
since been infected with the disease. Both had been vaccinated
when young. A case of small-pox is also reported
to have occurred at a private house in Park-lane. No
others have been heard of.
In the Belgrave sub-district 6,653 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, 4,455 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 2,198.