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street, was 1,056; of these, the number admitted into the
Workhouse, Mount-street, was 157, a number above the
average of past years.
Amongst them were no cases of small-pox, and none
were sent to the Small-pox Hospital, and the absence of this
disease is the only gratifying feature in the return. There
were 11 cases of chicken-pox, 30 of measles, 28 of scarlatina,
2 of whooping-cough, 74 of diarrhoea, 4 of cholera,
18 of continued fever, 112 of bronchitis, one of pleurisy,
and one of carbuncle.
Of the measles we shall speak on a future occasion, remarking
now that it was almost confined to July and the
early part of August.
The scarlatina was of a serious though limited character.
The 28 cases infested 17 houses, and out of the number, 5
died at home, and one more in the Fever Hospital. One of
the large piles of building called " Model Lodgings," and
erected with the benevolent object of giving to the labouring
classes cleaner and more comfortable homes, is yet so constructed
that there is a deficiency in the general sweep of air
over and through the building, and almost a necessity that
the vapours of the wash-tub and of the water-closets shall
be at times breathed and swallowed by the inmates, instead
of being clearly blown away. Scarlet fever appeared in a
child aged 2, at No. 5, in the week ending August 4. Next
week another child, aged 4, had it in the same rooms. In the
week ending 26th, a child of 9, at No. 3 ; September 2, the
mother and baby at No. 5 ; September 16, three children at
No. 24; September 23, another child at No. 24, and another
at No. 3; September 30th, a boy at No. 24, and a girl at
No. 27*. Three children were sent from No. 24 to the
* A case appeared at No. 24, October 14th, and three at
No. 23, November 11th.