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scrofula 3; tabes mesenterica 4; convulsions 11; teething 1;
and consumption 57.
A non-parishioner died from the effects of intemperance
in St. George's-hospital. Nine persons died from fractures
in the same institution; 8 being non-parishioners.
Four deaths from drowning took place; one of a man,
aged 41, a bath attendant, in the Public Baths, Davies-street;
another of a sheriff's officer, aged 47, in the Serpentine; a
third of a man, aged 50, also in the Serpentine; and the last
of a man, aged 34, a boiler maker, in the River Thames,
New Chelsea Bridge.
Two infants were suffocated; one was found in Hyde-park,
and the other, a boy of 1 year, was choked while feeding.
Three persons committed suicide when insane; one, a
non-parishioner, who cut his throat, and died in the hospital;
the other, a solicitor, aged 26; and a female servant, aged 23,
who hung herself in Park-street, by a cord looped on a cupboard
door.
Among the deaths from causes not specified or ill-defined,
were those of 2 infants; one, aged 3 months, found dead
in bed with its mother, and the other, a boy of 5 years.
sickness in the hanover and mayfair
sub-districts.
During the fourth quarter of 1863, the number of persons
who obtained medical relief from the Parochial Surgeons,
and at the Dispensary, Mount-street, and in the Sick
Wards of the Workhouse, Mount-street, was 1086.
Amongst them were 4 cases of small-pox, 2 of chickenpox,
82 of measles, 24 of scarlet fever, 6 of whooping
cough, 25 of diarrhoea, 30 of continued fever, 1 of rheumatic
fever, 2 of erysipelas, 179 of bronchitis and catarrh,