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Hanover Square 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Grosvenor-square; and to a parishioner in St. George's
Hospital, who came from Bolton-yard, May-fair.
It also proved fatal in Pulford-street, York-place, Lupusstreet,
Rutland-street, St. Michael's-terrace, Whitaker-street,
Westmoreland-street, Winchester-street, and Bun-house-yard.
Diphtheria proved fatal to an infant, aged 8 months, in
Tachbrook-street, and to 2 girls, aged 8 and 9 years, in
Warwick-street and Union-street respectively.
Of the 32 deaths from fever, 12 were those of nonparishioners
in the Hospital, reducing the number to 20.
Of these, four parishioners died in St. George's Hospital,
and came from Spring-garden-place, Wilton-place,
Gilbert-street, and Hanover-street. Five persons died in
the Workhouse, Mount-street, 4 in the following streets in
the In-Wards, namely, Ham-yard, Maddox-street, Charlesstreet
Grosvenor-square, and Curzon-street, and 7 in the
following streets in the Out-Wards, namely, in Grosvenorcottages,
Upper Belgrave-place, Cambridge-terrace, Sussexstreet,
Hart's-buildings, Passmore-street, and Ecclestonplace.
A death from erysipelas occurred to a woman, aged 50,
in Davies-street, Berkeley-square, and 1 from pyaemia after
jaundice, to a woman, aged 59, in Claverton-street. We
notice that pyaemia also destroyed 3 non-parishioners at St.
George's Hospital.
Lung diseases have destroyed 108 persons.
Consumption, scrofula, convulsions, teething, and other
diseases of degeneration and ill development destroyed 99,
including from premature birth 3, from atrophy and debility
20, water in the head 7, scrofula 1, tabes mesenterica 2,
convulsions 8, teething 1, and consumption 50.
Four persons died from the effects of intemperance in the
Hanover District.
Eight persons died from fractures in St. George's Hospital,