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we must take notice of the fact, that large numbers of houses
have been pulled down in the Belgrave Sub-District; 33
houses in Upper Eaton-street are swept away, all, in fact,
except 1 house, No. 17; 10 houses in Grosvenor-street
West; 3 in Upper Ranelagh-street; 16 premises in Ranelaghplace;
22 in Ranelagh-street; 6 in Ranelagh-mews; 11 in
Lower Grosvenor-place; 1 in Arabella-row; 13 in Eatonlane,
North; 15 (at least) in Lower Eaton-street; 2 in
Victoria-road. This, which is but an instalment of further
change, has removed 132 houses inhabited by 1,135 persons.
We have delayed this Report considerably, in order to get
these figures, which we are at last enabled to do by the
special favour of the Registrar-General; we shall give some
further particulars in the Annual Summary at the end of the
winter quarter. This diminution of population gives greater
emphasis to an increase of the death figures. Of the superior
class of inhabitants, many have got residences elsewhere in
the Parish; as to the lower class it is most difficult to trace
them. Their nearest neighbours either do not know, or
refuse to tell where they have removed to.
sickness in the hanover and may-fair sub-districts.
The number of persons treated by the Parochial Surgeons
at the Dispensary, and in the Sick-Wards of the Mountstreet
Workhouse, during the quarter, was 957; in the
corresponding quarters of 4 preceding years, the numbers
were 693, 999, 983, and 1047.
Amongst them were 2 cases of small-pox, 1 chicken-pox,
3 measles, 2 scarlatina, 6 diphtheria, 15 whooping-cough, 78
diarrhoea, 1 cholera, 23 fever, 2 erysipelas, and 85 bronchitis.
The figures thus summed up, do not show very badly for
that part of the population which depends on public aid for
medical treatment; but there were fluctuations and periods