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10 in Mount-street workhouse, and 12 in the Belgrave subdistrict.
There were no deaths from small-pox in the Midsummer
quarter of 1862, and only 5 from measles; while in the present
quarter there are 25 from the former and 15 from the
latter disease.
One child died from measles at Barlow-mews, in the Mayfair
district, 1 non-parishioner at St. George's Hospital, and 13
in the annexed streets in Belgravia; viz., Belgrave-mews-south,
Chester-terrace Eaton-square, Union-street, Robert-street,
Avery-farm-row, West-street, Gloucester-street, Sutherlandterrace,
Berwick-street, Westbourne-street and Hugh-street
West.
Nine persons died from scarlet fever; 3 from diphtheria,
in Stanley-street and Grosvenor-row; 6 from croup;
34 from whooping-cough; and 22 from typhus fever, in
Charles-street, Shepherd's-court, Denbigh-street, Clough'scottages,
Robert's-buildings, New Grosvenor-place, Moretonterrace,
St. George's-place Knightsbridge, Bloomfield-terrace,
Caroline-street, and Sutherland-terrace.
Deaths from consumption, scrofula, convulsions, teething,
and other diseases of degeneration and ill-development,
destroyed 137 patients, including from premature birth, 11;
from atrophy and debility, 15; from malformations, 1;
water in the head, 8; scrofula, 1; tabes mesenterica, 6;
convulsions, 33; and from consumption, 62.
Lung diseases proved fatal to 68 persons.
Among the accidental deaths we notice 4 from burns and
scalds, one of which occurred in a parishioner aged 48, at
St. George's Hospital, whose clothes caught fire from a
candle. A boy and girl, both aged 1 year, were scalded to
death by hot water from cups pulled over by themselves at
Cambridge-terrace and Commercial-road South. A nonparishioner
also died.