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No. 9, Robert Street.—Diphtheria, and 3 cases of sore
throat.
Besides, the houses in which small pox, or any
other epidemic disease has occurred, have been visited,
and cleaning and purification recommended and enforced,
so far as our powers extend.
In the Belgrave sub-district 8,317 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, 4,402 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 3,915.
The total figures include 81 of small pox, 29 of
chicken pox, 161 of measles, 14 of scarlet fever, 47 of
whooping cough, 4 of cough, 112 of diarrhoea, 5 of
dysentery, 60 of continued fever, 40 of rheumatic fever,
28 of erysipelas, 6 of diphtheria, and 3 of carbuncle.
There were 560 cases of bronchitis, 17 of pleurisy,
and 46 of pneumonia.
the small pox.
The Summary for the preceding quarter describes the
introduction of small pox into the Belgrave sub-district,
by a boy who was admitted into St George's Hospital, on
October 24th. It shows also that four patients in the Hospital
were infected and sent to the Small Pox Hospital,
that there were 6 other cases amongst the public patients
in the Belgrave sub-district, and 1 death; and that so far
as the In-Wards are concerned, the disease appeared in
a house in Park Lane, in November, and was brought to
No. 10, Robert-street on 17th December by a woman
from Mile End.