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yard. One death from dysentery, in Swallow-place, led to
enquiry about the efficiency of the drainage, soon followed
by complaints from the inhabitants, and the eradication of a
set of old choked-up brick drains.
Measles continue to be extremely prevalent, and proved
fatal to 22 children. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, and croup to
26 children and two adults. Two children are said to have
died of croup at No. 14, Eaton-court. Whooping-cough
destroyed 8 children. Typhoid and typhus fever, which is
less exclusively a disease of early life, destroyed 8 lives;
one in the Hanover sub-district, viz.,—a young sailor lodging
in Avery-row; four in the Belgrave, viz.,—a child of 5 in
Clarendon-street; another of 10 in another house in that
street; the wife of a coachman, in Belgrave-mews; and a
butler, aged 23, in Grosvenor-place. A valet, aged 23, from
Warwick-square ; and a woman of 24, from Johnson's-place,
died of this fever in the hospital, besides one non-parishioner.
Altogether, 226 children died under five years of age, as
a set-off to 632 births.
Besides four persons who died from delirium tremens, intemperance
and starvation are said to have killed a widow of
60. Two of the cases of delirium tremens were brought on
by wound or fracture, which often puts the disease into
activity when there is a tendency to it; the [other two occurred
to domestic servants.
The deaths from accident or negligence are instructive,
as usual.
One lady of 83 died from falling in her room; a bricklayer's
labourer of 21, by the fall of brickwork upon him;
a boy of 13 was knocked down and killed by a Hansom cab,
at Hyde-park-corner; a labourer of 46, from amputation of
his leg, which he broke in jumping from a cart; a labourer's
boy fell from a scaffold at Kensington ; a cab-driver died from
a kick in the bowels from a horse; a plumber, aged 24,