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sons advanced in life, contrary to the rule which holds good
with scarlet fever. Two of these were in the Hanover SubDistrict,
a tradesman's wife in Oxford-street, and an eminent
surgeon in Grosvenor-street; 9 in the Belgrave Sub-District,
viz., a lady, aet. 24, in Stanley-street; a girl of 5, and 1 of
3, in one house, in Boyd's-gardens; 1 of 6, in Cambridgestreet
; a woman, aet. 54, in Belgrave-mews South; a lady
of 64, at Wilton-terrace; a child of 6, in Warwick-street; a
girl of 17, at 5, Chapel-place; and a gentleman of 74, in
Eccleston-square.
Three deaths from fever occurred in the Mount-street
Workhouse, viz., a male tramp, aet. 57, on 16th June (his
death, registered in the 1st week of July, comes into this
quarter); a man, Gill, aged 62, who acted as nurse, 26th
July; and a groom, set. 28, on the 2nd August. In
St. George's Hospital there died of fever, a journeyman
saddler, aet. 21, from Grosvenor-cottages, Pimlico, and 6
non-parishioners.
Altogether, it is a mortifying fact, that we have to record
128 deaths from zymotic disease : a larger number than we
ever had before in this quarter of the year.
Other causes of death which indicate general conditions
of debility were rife this quarter. Thus 2 children died
from want of breast milk, 13 from premature birth or malformation,
14 from atrophy and debility, and no fewer than
85 from scrofula, consumption, water in the head, and convulsions.
The 34 deaths from accident and negligence also form a
heavy item, although 19 were those of non-parishioners. It
is an interesting and not unprofitable study to analyse these,
and see how ready mutilation or death is to follow every
act of negligence. Fifteen persons died from falls; a workman
from a scaffold at the Chelsea barracks; an engineer from
a railway engine; a builder's boy and a painter from roofs