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We find that the total included 6 of small-pox, 21 of
chicken-pox, 143 of measles, 38 of scarlet fever, 31 of
whooping-cough, 151 of diarrhoea, 6 of dysentery, 45 of
continued fever, 47 of rheumatic fever, 8 of diphtheria,
22 of erysipelas, 1 of carbuncle, 3 of croup, and 2 of
ague, which occurred in non-parishioners at St. George's
Hospital.
There were 579 cases of bronchitis, 10 of pleurisy,
and 31 of pneumonia.
SMALL POX.
The small-pox having appeared in several parts of
Belgravia, a special committee was summoned on November
27th to consider the subject. The disease first
occurred at St. George's Hospital in a school boy, aged 7,
who resided in Lloyd's-place, Brompton, and was admitted
into the Hospital on October 24th, for fever.
But the " fever" turned out to be small-pox; whereupon
the patient was placed in a private room instead of being
sent to the Small-pox Hospital; a new remedy sarracenia
purpurea was tried, and he was discharged cured on
November 14th. As four other patients became infected
with the complaint besides a student of the Hospital
residing in Shaft.esbury-crescent, the committee thought
it wrong that the patient first attacked should have been
allowed to remain in the Hospital. The other four patients
were transferred to the Small-pox Hospital, two in common
cabs and two in the parochial conveyance. The
spreading of the disease had created alarm enough to
drive other patients away from the Hospital. It was
resolved that a letter be written to the Secretary of the
Hospital complaining of the preceding circumstances.