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TO THE
Vestry of St. George, Hanoder Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
During the quarter ended on the 30th December, 1865,
the number of deaths registered in the Parish -was 511,
including those of 65 non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital
and 5 inmates of the Workhouse at Little Chelsea,
giving a weekly average of 39. The weekly average of the
foregoing ten years is 36.5.
The number of births during the same period was 594.
One of the 12 deaths from measles occurred in Georgestreet,
Grosvenor-square; it was that of a young woman
of 27. Eleven in Belgravia, as follows: Pulford-street,
Effingham-street, Upper Ebury-street, Graham-street West,
Grosvenor-cottages, New Grosvenor-place, West-street, Kingstreet,
Stanley-street.
Scarlet fever proved fatal to 14 persons : viz., of whom
12 lived in the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-Districts; a boy
in Reeves's-mews, Park-street; a boy in Davies-mews, Davies
street; a girl and a boy in Mount-row; a girl in Northrow,
Park-street; a boy in Thomas-street, Grosvenor-square;
to another boy in Blomfield place ; and to an infant in Johnstreet,
Grosvenor-mews. There were also deaths in John'scourt,
South-street, Street's-buildings, and of a man of 50
in Old Bond-street. Two only of the deaths took place in
Belgravia, namely, in Westmoreland-place and More ton-place.
Diphtheria destroyed a boy, aged 3 years, in New Bondstreet
; a youth, aged 17, in the Workhouse, Mount-street;
and a parishioner, aged 19, in the Hospital, who came from
Farm-street, Berkeley-square.