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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MORTALITY IN SEVEN STREETS.
Year ending April,— | 1862. | 1863. | 1864. | |||
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Deaths under 5. | Deaths over 5. | Deaths under 5. | Deaths over 5. | Deaths under 5. | Deaths over 5. | |
Upper Ebury-street | 17 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 14 |
Pulford-street | 17 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
New Grosvenor-place | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
Brewer-street | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 |
Glasgow terrace | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 |
Robert-street | 11 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Eaton-court | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
82 | 33 | 37 | 26 | 66 | 44 |
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. |
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The deaths from zymotic disease | 346 | 291 | 448 | 395 | 393 |
„ small-pox | 6 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 41 |
„ scarlatina, diphtheria, croup, and other forms of fever with throat disease | 82 | 53 | 82 | 117 | 102 |
„ fever | 44 | 39 | 63 | 68 | 68 |
„ diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera | 48 | 83 | 53 | 41 | 52 |
„ teething, convulsions, consumption, water in the head, mesenteric disease, and scrofula | 395 | 353 | 387 | 342 | 385 |
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