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some logs on which he was playing in the Thames; and
a constable died by falling from a wall in Hyde-park.
There were two supposed suicides, one of an ale house
keeper who hanged himself in Hyde-park; one of a comedian
who cut his throat; besides a solicitor's clerk who
was found drowned in the Thames, with no evidence how.
the sickness.
In the Hanover and May-fair sub-districts, the number
of cases treated by the Parochial Surgeons, and by
the Medical Officers of the Dispensary, Mount-street,
and in the sick wards attached to the Workhouse, was
1,060 exclusive of the 23 cases of small pox sent in from
Belgravia.
These 1,060 cases comprised 12 of small pox, 2 of
chicken pox, and 8 of measles. But these figures by no
means represent the prevalence of the last two diseases,
which if mild, are generally left without medical attendance.
There were 6 cases of scarlatina, 2 of diphtheria,
4 of whooping cough, 1 of croup, 17 of diarrhoea, 2 of
dysentery, 17 of fever of various kinds, 2 of erysipelas,
218 of bronchitis and catarrh, 2 of pleurisy, and 3 of
pneumonia.
The chief places to which our attention has been
directed in consequence of illness, have been as follows :
No. 11, Lancashire Court.—Diarrhœa, scarlet fever,
sore throat.
No. 4, Thomas Street.—Scarlet fever. A girl of 13 was
sent from this house to the fever hospital, on 29th January;
she returned and died at home, and was kept unburied a
long time.
No. 19, Brick Street.—Diarrhœa.
No. 8, Queen Street.—Croup,