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We give as usual a few remarks on those deaths which
are commonly considered to be in some measure preventable
by greater cleanliness, knowledge, and care.
First come the zymotic, or epidemic and infectious
diseases, the deaths from which were 137, or nearly onefourth
of the whole. There were 12 from small-pox, of
which we shall speak presently; then the large amount of
37 from measles, 35 of which occurred in the Belgrave
sub-district, and all of children under five. During
January no fewer than 23 deaths were due to this cause,
including those of 3 children in one house in Pulfordstreet.
Scarlatina destroyed 14 lives, and diphtheria 5.
Two of the deaths from scarlatina occurred at No. 11,
Lancashire-court; two in Wilton-terrace; 3 in nonparishioners
in St. George's Hospital, 1 in Pulford-street,
in the house where 3 children died of measles. Single
deaths occurred in Little Grosvenor-street, Thomas-street,
Moreton-place, Park-side, Rutland-terrace, and Westmoreland-street.
The deaths from diphtheria occurred in Derby-street,
Eaton-place, Grosvenor-gate, and Upper Belgrave-street;
besides one case of measles which was complicated with
diphtheria.
There was one death from ulcerated sore throat in
Davies-mews, at a dirty and ill-ventilated stable, now
pulled down, and one in Charlwood-street.
The large number of 28 children died of whooping
cough, 27 of whom belonged to the lower parts of the
Belgrave sub-district.
The deaths from the various kinds of continued fever
were 16, three of which were deaths of non-parishioners.
It is the peculiarity of these fevers, that though they do
not altogether spare children, they attack adults by preference.