Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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January 26th, Wm. M., æt. 7, vaccinated, 18, North
Bruton-mews.
March 7th, C., a boy, set. 3, at 9, Shepherd's-court,
Upper Brook-street, died of confluent small-pox, after 14
days' illness.
March 12th, Gertrude C., æt. 7, sister of the foregoing,
sent to the hospital.
These two children had been vaccinated in the country, but
the vaccination had taken very imperfectly, and there was
one faint spot on each child.
March 23rd, Emily H., æt. 20, apprentice to a milliner
in Duke-street, sent to the hospital.
March 24th, W. F., æt, 40, servant in Brook-street, sent
to the hospital.
With the above, the number of cases known to have occurred
in the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-Districts, since
December, 1862, is 124 +6 inmates of the Workhouse
=130; viz. 68 treated in the Workhouse, 14 at home, 16 at
the Small-Pox Hospital, and 32 private cases, besides 84
persons from Belgravia, treated at Mount-street, of which 17
were mortal within the parish.
Six cases were sent to the Small-Pox Hospital, from the
Belgrave Sub-District during the quarter.
the following cases occurred in the belgrave
sub-dibtrict:—
No. 101, Lupus-street, a boy, aged 1 year, unvaccinated:
died.
No. 135, Lupus-street, a girl, aged 4 years, vaccinated:
died. [Besides this case, a man aged 21, a boy of 9, and
3 girls aged 15,19, and 20 respectively, and vaccinated, had
the disease in this house.]