Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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May 11. Girl, aged 4, daughter of a labourer, from 11,
St. George's-row.
May 20. Porter, aged 23; from No. 9, Hart-street.
June 3. Boy, aged 3; from 31, Queen-street, Pimlico.
From the Belgrave sub-district 54 persons were received
into the wards at Mount-street, 8 of whom died, as above.
(One patient from the Hanover and one from the Belgrave
died on the 21st June, but their deaths were not registered
till the next quarter.)
Of these 54, 18 were children. Three who died were the
children of a soldier, living at 11, St. George's-row, born in
India, and never vaccinated till the small-pox had seized them.
One was an infant which came with its father and mother
from 14, Eaton-court. 7 others were not vaccinated, and 5
were so.
Of the 36 adults, 1 had been inoculated for small-pox
when a child; 6 were not vaccinated; 16 were so.
The twelve deaths from small-pox, which happened in the
patients' own houses, in the Belgrave sub-district, were distributed
as follows:—
April 7. No. 8 Charlwood-place f. æt. 3 vaccinated
„ 8. „ 12 Spring-gardens . f. „ 39 „
„ 9. „ 2 Brewer-street . m. „ 1 unvaccinated
„ 10. „ 4 Hindon-place . m. „ 6 wks. „
„ 14. „ 7 St. George's-pl.. f. „ 38 „
„ 20. „ 2 Ditto . . f. „ 14 vaccinated
„ 30. „ 2 Ditto . . m. „ 2 „
May 8. „ — Coleshill-street . m. „ 32 ,,
„ 15. „ — St. George's-ter. f. „ 4 w. unvaccinated
June 9. „ — Gloucester-street m. „ 19 days „
„ 14. „ — Warwick-street . m. „ 55 „