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example, that of a well-known and illustrious person, aged 91,
in George-street, Hanover-square, for the fever was contracted
elsewhere; nor that of a young lady who died of
typhoid at an hotel in Piccadilly, and was brought there ill
from Essex; nor of a girl who died in Carrington-street, who
contracted her illness elsewhere. One lamentable case was
that of Mr. C., a tradesman, at No. —, Avery-row, who came
to the house in October 1862, and died of typhoid on
November 22nd, 1863. The widow says that their health
had never been good during the year; the back of the house
is dark and airless, and there were constant foul smells in the
area and cellar. The inspector's report of the neglected state
of the drains and traps, fully explains the whole case, and the
only thing to be lamented is, that the unfortunate sufferers
should have ignorantly or carelessly allowed it to continue
without complaint. A child of 8 died in an ill-drained and
ill-ventilated stable, 49, Mount-row, and one of 7, at No. —,
Brick-street, where no cause is discoverable.
Fever proved fatal in the following streets in the OutWards,
namely, Pulford-street, Lupus-street, Howick-terrace,
Princes-row East—where the patient, a man-servant, had been
brought from an hotel in Brook-street, having come with his
mistress from a house in Rutlandshire, in which other servants
were ill with fever—Charlwood-place, Cambridge-street, Eatonlane
North, Chapel-street, Gloucester-street, Hindon-street.
Lung diseases have destroyed 77 persons. In our
Summary, No. XXI., we inserted a table, showing the
number of deaths in the parish from the same causes, during
the fourth quarter of the preceding four years.
Consumption, scrofula, convulsions, teething, and other
diseases of degeneration and ill-development, destroyed 113
patients, including, from premature birth, 3; from atrophy and
debility 14; from malformations 1; water in the head 57;