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A non-parishioner, aged 18, was drowned accidentally
because the boat he was rowing came into contact with a
steam vessel near Cadogan Pier. Two men, aged respectively
21 and 24, were also drowned while bathing in the Serpentine.
One suicide was registered, namely, a servant, aged 30,
who threw herself from a window, in Wilton-terrace, while
insane. One that might be called suicide was that of a.
veterinary surgeon, aged 29, from delirium apotu.
Among the deaths from causes not specified or ill-defined
were those of 3 infants, 1 of which was found in an area in
Aylesford-street, another in Queen-street, and the third in
the Serpentine.
THE sickness.
In the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-Districts, the number
of persons treated by the Parochial and Dispensary Medical
Officers, Mount-street, and in the Sick-Wards of the Workhouse,
was 985.
Amongst them were 3 cases of small-pox, 2 of chickenpox,
2 of measles, 9 of scarlatina, 2 of whooping-cough, 18
of diarrhoea, 25 of continued fever, 4 of erysipelas, 177 of
bronchitis and catarrh, 4 of pleurisy, and 5 of pneumonia.
Chicken-pox, like whooping-cough, measles, and scar-
latina, sometimes attacks children so mildly, that the parents
do not think it worth while to seek medical advice. The
nine cases of scarlatina formed a petty epidemic in two or
three houses in Shepherd's-market in the early part of June;
but even allowing due weight to these, the In-Wards have
been very free from these infectious fevers during this year.
The most serious item on the list, are the 25 cases marked
as "fever," amongst which were the two fatal cases mentioned
as having occurred in the Hanover Sub-District. Twelve cases
were treated in the Sick-Wards at the Workhouse, and of these