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TO THE
Destry of st. George, Hanober Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
During the quarter ended on the 31st December, 1864,
the number of deaths registered in the Parish was 490, including
those of 61 non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital,
and 7 inmates of the Workhouse at Little Chelsea. The
deaths registered in the Parish during the corresponding
quarters of the preceding ten years, gave a weekly average
32, but the mortality for this quarter has been on the average
37 per week.
The 8 deaths from small-pox happened in the following
places:—One of a girl, aged 20, unvaccinated, in Sutherlandterrace;
a second, of an infant, aged 1 year, unvaccinated, in
Robert-street, S. W.; the third, of a man, aged 27,unvaccinated,
in Pulford-street; the fourth, of a girl, aged 12, in Westmoreland-street;
the fifth arid sixth, of a woman, aged 36, vaccinated,
and her infant, aged 18 days, in Westbourne-street; the
seventh, of an infant, aged 2 months, unvaccinated, in Victoria-mews;
and the eighth, of an infant, aged 7 weeks, in
Nell Gwynne-cottages.
The 3 deaths from measles took place in Grosvenormarket,
Shepherd-street, and Winchester-street. Last year
there were 13 in the corresponding quarter.
Scarlet fever proved fatal to an infant in Steele's-court,
Lee's-mews (see Appendix IV.); to a boy in Park-street,