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5 being non-parishioners. The 3 following patients died in
the same institution:—an infant from a bum on body and
limbs, his clothes igniting from a fire in a grate in Hughstreet;
a tinman from the effects of lead poisoning; and a
woman from injuries received while driving in the park.
A man, aged 24, was suffocated by meat in the larynx at
Brown's-place, North-row.
A newly born infant was found in Hyde-park strangled
by a ligature round the neck.
A woman, aged 32, committed suicide when insane, by
throwing herself into the Serpentine.
Among the deaths from causes not specified or ill defined
were those of 4 infants; 2 found dead in Hyde-park, another
which died in Grosvenor-mews, Berkeley-square, and the
fourth of a colonel in Chester-square.
sickness in the hanover and may-fair sub-districts.
The number of patients who were entered on the books of
the Medical Officers of the Parish, and of the Dispensary
Mount Street, and of the sick wards of the Workhouse Mount
Street, during the quarter, was 804. This number i3 less
than usual, because the Dispensary was closed during a
month for repairs.
Amongst them were 2 cases of small-pox, 3 of chicken
pox, 5 of measles, 11 of scarlatina, 11 of whooping-cough,
8 of diarrhoea, 21 of continued fever, 184 of bronchitis, and
3 of diphtheria.
The 11 cases of scarlet fever, and 3 of diphtheria, were
distributed over Brown-street, Lancashire-court, Grosvenormews,
Barlow-mews ; not one of these cases was fatal.