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Hanover Square 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Nov. 5 th, Joseph Towsey, 10, 19, Eccleston-place.
„ 3rd, William Chumn, 30, from 3, Brick-street.
Mary Roe, 38, tramp, died 27th Nov.
Dec. 16th, Ann Smith, 68, died 16th Dec., 6, Princes-row
West.
„ 10th, Margaret Rycroft, 69.
Richard Colingham, 15, died 29 Dec., tramp.
Oct. 18th, Sarah Wrighting, 18, 7, Flask-lane.
Dec. 6th, W. Meredith, 16, 11, Boyd's-gardens.
„ 9th, Caroline Towsey, 44.
There were sent to the Fever Hospital—
Oct. 11th, Thos. Mc Manus, Grosvenor-row.
„ 18th, Jane Taylor, 62, Upper Ebury-street
Nov. 21st, Elizt. Seaman, 35, " The Carved Lion," Southstreet.
Dec. 2nd, Emily Clary, 1, Denbigh-street.
sickness in the belgrave sub-district.
In theBelgrave Sub-District 8,763 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
4,946 were patients at St. George's Hospital, leaving a
remainder of 6,817.
The total figures include 29 of small-pox, 24 of chickenpox,
5 of measles, 58 of scarlet fever, 40 of whoopingcough,
90 of diarrhoea, 15 of dysentery, 79 of continued
fever, 48 of rheumatic fever, 38 of erysipelas, 16 of diphtheria,
3 of carbuncle, and 1 of ague.
There were 628 cases of bronchitis, 28 of pleurisy, and
88 of pneumonia.