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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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MORTALITY IN SEVEN STREETS.

Year ending April,—1862.1863.1864.
Deaths under 5.Deaths over 5.Deaths under 5.Deaths over 5.Deaths under 5.Deaths over 5.
Upper Ebury-street1791012914
Pulford-street17797135
New Grosvenor-place851066
Brewer-street643266
Glasgow terrace1530086
Robert-street11312244
Eaton-court822364
823337266644

We now proceed to sum up the deaths from preventible or
partially preventible causes in the whole parish.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

In the year ending March,—1860.1861.1862.1863.1864.
The deaths from zymotic disease346291448395393
„ small-pox6811341
„ scarlatina, diphtheria, croup, and other forms of fever with throat disease825382117102
„ fever4439636868
„ diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera4883534152
„ teething, convulsions, consumption, water in the head, mesenteric disease, and scrofula395353387342385

THE SICKNESS.
The total number of cases treated in the Hanover and Mayfair
Sub-Districts during the year, by the Parochial Medical
Officers, and at the Dispensary, Mount-street, and in the SickWards
of the Mount-street Workhouse, has been 4,450. Last
year 3,901, the year before 3,803.
Amongst which were 58 cases of small-pox from the Hanover
and Mayfair Sub-Districts admitted to the Sick-Wards, Mountstreet;
6 inmates of the workhouse; 61 cases admitted from Belgravia;
9 treated at home; and 12 sent to the small pox hospital
during the year--146 altogether—besides 25 private cases; 20 of
chicken-pox, 117 of measles, 58 of scarlatina, 8 of diphtheria, 50 of
whooping-cough, 122 of diarrhœa, 93 of fever, 11 of erysipelas;
753 of bronchitis and catarrh, pneumonia 7, carbuncle 3.
In the Belgrave Sub-District 34,340 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 the Workhouse, Little Chelsea ; of these 18,799 were patients