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Five deaths from diphtheria took place respectively in
Sussex-street, Robert's-buildings, Queen's Royal-mews, Westmoreland-street,
and Ranelagh-grove.
Croup proved fatal to a child, aged 2, in Moreton-street,
West, and whooping-cough to 19.
Twenty-two persons appear in the Register as having died
of fever, viz., 2 in the Hanover Sub-District—a young tradesman,
set. 21, of the typhoid kind, which is believed to be
caused by sewer vapour, on 13th June, at No. 1, Providencecourt,
and a healthy girl of 10, at No. 2, Weaver's-place,
North-row, after a very short illness. Two tramps in the
workhouse of the typhus variety; 14 in the Belgrave SubDistrict,
viz., in Eccleston-street East, Upper Belgrave-place,
Kinnerton-street, Pulford-street, Sutherland-terrace, Little
Ebury-street, Warwick-street, Warwick-row, Passmore-street,
Upper Tachbrook-street, Denbigh-street, Belgrave-street
South, Coleshill-street, Stanley-street;—one parishioner
from Eaton-mews West, and 3 non-parishioners in St.
George's-hospital.
Erysipelas killed 7 persons, of whom 4 were nonparishioners,
at St. George's-hospital. There was also a
death from pyaemia in the same institution.
There were 3 deaths from diarrhoea, one of which was
registered as choleraic, proving fatal in 12 hours, to a woman,
aged 41, who resided in St. George's-terrace.
Diseases of degeneration and ill-development destroyed
114 patients, including, from premature birth, 2; teething,
8; atrophy and debility, 12; water in the head, 8; tabes
mesenterica, 5; convulsions, 6; and consumption, 73.
Lung diseases proved fatal to 73 persons.
We find among the accidental deaths at St. George's
Hospital, 6 from fractures and contusions and 1 from burns,
and all of non-parishioners.