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acid. Six newly born infants—probably still-born—at all
events with no evidence how they came by their deaths, were
cast away on a dung heap in Ebury-mews, on the embankment
of the Grosvenor Canal, in Hyde-park, and the Serpentine.
One besides was found, which the Coroner's jury declared to
have been suffocated, no evidence how. All these things are
marks of our whole social condition, and we may depend on
it, that the houses of people who would cast out a dead infant
as they do a dog, are a good deal in want of Inspectors of
Nuisances, moral and physical.
sickness in the iianover and may-fair sub-districts.
The number of persons treated during the quarter by the
Medical Officers of the Parish, and of the Dispensary, Mountstreet,
and in the Sick-Wards of the Workhouse, Mountstreet,
was 991.
Amongst these were 9 cases of small-pox, 10 chicken-pox,
1 measles, 20 scarlatina, 19 whooping-cough, 10 diarrhoea, 2
erysipelas, 18 fever, 218 bronchitis, 7 diphtheria, and 1
pleurisy.
The 19 cases of scarlatina were distributed thus: 1 in
Brick-street, fatal; 3 in one house in Hertford-place, 1 fatal;
in Grosvenor and South Molton-mews, Hanover-place, Brownstreet,
&c. The 7 cases of diphtheria, in a knot of old
houses in Brick-street, in Grosvenor-mews, Swan's-passage,
and Hertford-place; 1 of the 7 was fatal. The 1 case of
measles was combined with whooping-cough,—a child at
30a, Grosvenor-mews. Of the 18 cases of fever, 12 were
treated in the Sick Wards: 1 was sent from May's-buildings
to the Fever Hospital, and soon came home well; the others
were scattered over Weaver's-place, some old houses at the
top of Clarges-street, Hart-street, Bell-yard, &c. At all