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the sickness in the hanover and mayfair
sub-districts.
During these three months the number of patients treated
by the Parochial Medical Officers, and at the Dispensary,
and in the sick-wards of the Workhouse, Mount-street, was
1,178.
Amongst them were 94 cases of small-pox, viz.,—34 of
inhabitants of the Hanover and Mayfair sub-districts, 6 of
inmates of the Workhouse, and 54 admitted from the Belgrave
sub-district.
Chicken-pox numbered 16 cases, measles 11, scarlet fever
13, whooping-cough 32, diarrhoea 14, continued fever 28,
erysipelas 3, bronchitis 159, and diphtheria 4.
sickness in the belgrave sub-district.
In the Belgrave Sub-District 8,514 persons were
treated by the Parochial Surgeons, and at St. George's
Hospital, the Royal Pimlico Dispensary, the St. Paul and
St. Barnabas' Dispensary, and at the Workhouse, Little
Chelsea.
Of these, 4816 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 3698.
The total figures include 105 of small-pox, 31 of
chicken-pox, 49 of measles, 21 of scarlet-fever, 78 of
whooping-cough, 1 of croup, 142 of diarrhoea, 7 of dysentery,
55 of continued fever, 39 of rhcumatic fever, 17 of
erysipelas, 2 of diphtheria, 1 of ague, and 3 of carbuncle.
There were 432 cases of bronchitis, 14 of pleurisy,
and 45 of pneumonia.