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events, the deaths from fever did not occur in houses subject
to our regular explorations.
The Sick-Wards at Mount-street, and the Book of Admissions
to the Fever Hospital, show how much our
Parish has contributed to the typhus epidemic in London, and
it is not much. One girl was sent, as aforesaid, to the
Fever Hospital with typhoid; an old man from Whittakerstreet
with typhus. Six tramps, and 1 woman from 8, Clifford'srow,
were admitted into the Sick-Wards, where, unluckily,
1 nurse and 2 other inmates took the infection and died.
the small-pox.
There, was an outbreak of this disease in the Hanover
Sub-District, which assumed the proportions of a petty
epidemic. On the 10th January, an infant of 7 months, not
vaccinated, died of it at 17, Brown-street. On the 24th,
W. S., a man aged 36, vaccinated, was sent from the same
house to the Small-pox Hospital; next week a girl named
Elizabeth Cooper, aged 15, from 36, Thomas-street, was also
sent there: she had been vaccinated when young by a celebrated
vaccinator. At the same time, 3 children, at 18,
Brown-street, named 2 aged 7 and 14, vaccinated
young, 1 aged 4, not vaccinated, born in Marylebone. On
February 15, an infant 10 weeks old died, at 15, Robert-street,
also unvaccinated. At the beginning of March, Susan and
Esther M., of 3, Brown-street, aged 11 and 14, both vaccinated.
Also at 7, Thomas-street, Sarah T., aged 4, Elizabeth, set. 10,
and Charlotte, set. 13, all vaccinated. At the same time,
Margaret M., set. 18, and Eliza, Eet. 13, vaccinated, at 3,
Shepherd's-market.
These cases bring up the number known to have occurred
in the Hanover and May-fair Sub-Districts, since December
1842 to 156.