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October. The cases of cholera were two of elderly men,
and of two inmates of the workhouse; not one fatal. Of
the 18 fever cases, not one was fatal.
There were sent to the Fever Hospital, on 3rd August,
2 scarlet fever cases from 14, Brown-street; on the 30th,
Jane S., from No. 11, Pollen-street; on the 31st, Harriett
Dewey, a tramp from the Workhouse; the 3 children beforementioned,
from No. 24, B.-place, on the 14th, 16th, and 18th
September; and Mary Ann Jackson, a tramp from the Workhouse,
on the 29th September.
There died also in St. George's Hospital a child, aged 2,
of diphtheria, from No. 4, Dolphin-court; another child
died in the same house of diarrhoea. The whole court has
since been cleansed and paved afresh, and an ill-kept urinal
abolished.
sickness in the belgrave sub-district.
In the Belgrave Sub-district 7,376 persons were treated
by the parochial surgeons, and at St. George's Hospital, the
Royal Pimlico Dispensary, the St. Paul and St. Barnabas'
Dispensary, and at the Workhouse, Little Chelsea.
Of these, 4,704 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 2,672.
The total figures include 4 of chicken-pox, 67 of measles,
24 of scarlet fever, 42 of whooping-cough, 359 of diarrhoea,
14 of dysentery, 25 of continued fever, 3 of rheumatic
fever, 18 of erysipelas, 2 of diphtheria, and 3 of carbuncle.
There were 307 cases of bronchitis, 8 of pleurisy, and 25
of pneumonia.