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going years; neither did it arise from zymotic disease, which
was at as low a level as ever it has been; but we see that the
deaths of adults, especially of persons advanced in life, were
unusually numerous, so that the deaths over 60 were more
than those under 5, whereas they usually range from one-half
to two-thirds, whilst diseases of the lungs, with consumption,
were also very high.
In the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-Districts, the character
of the mortality was well marked;—few deaths of children,
many of the aged, and only 12 of any kind of zymotic
disease.
Of the 3 deaths from small-pox we speak elsewhere.
Two deaths from measles, and 14 from whooping-cough, occurred
amongst the poor children of the Belgrave SubDistrict.
One death from diphtheria occurred at No. 1,
George-street, Oxford-street, one at Princes-row East, and one
at Spring-gardens, Belgravia. One death from scarlet fever
occurred in South Audley-street, one in Oxford-street, one in
a girl of 5 at St. George's Hospital from a house in Wiltonroad;
an infant died in the same house; two in one house in
Churton-street; the others in Lupus-street, Colchester-street
(two houses), Moreton-street West (two houses), Ebury-street,
Queen-street, and Berwick-street. Of the deaths from fever, one
occurred in Park-street, one of a man of 73 in Mount-street
Workhouse, others at Cutmore's-buildings, Robert's-buildings,
Eaton-place, Park-side, Burton-street, and Hanoverstreet,
besides 6 non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital.
The deaths from pyæmia, which may be otherwise called
puerperal fever, may be added to the 5 registered under
the head childbirth; one was a patient removed from Queen
Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital to St. George's. The 8 deaths
from diarrhæa, were chiefly of young children, from cold,
and difficulty of feeding them.