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An infant, aged 2, died from croup in Warwick-street,
Pimlico.
Of the 13 deaths from fever, 1 was of a non-parishioner, in
the Hospital, and 1 a parishioner, who came from Woodstockstreet,
Oxford-street. One occurred in Hereford-street,
Park-lane (it was that of a young lady soon after confinement,
and had nothing to do with zymotic disease), and 3
in the Mayfair district—namely, in Dover-street, Southstreet,
and Clarges-street. Seven deaths happened in the
following streets in Belgravia—Ranelagh-street, Gray's-innplace,
Coleshill-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road, Churton-street,
Hugh-street, and Cambridge-street.
There were 16 deaths from diarrhoea, 8 of which occurred
to infants under 1 year of age. Lung diseases destroyed 91
persons. Consumption, scrofula, convulsions, teething, and
other diseases of degeneration and ill-development destroyed
114, including from premature birth 9, from atrophy and debility
9, water in the head 8, scrofula 1, tabes mesenterica 6,
convulsions 19, teething 1, and consumption 61. Two persons
died from the effects of intemperance in Belgravia.
Nine persons died from fractures in St. George's Hospital,
7 being non-parishioners. A servant-maid, aged 17,
died of a fractured skull and other injuries, from falling out
of window in White Horse-street, Piccadilly; a labourer, aged
27, who lived in Little Ebury-street, died in St..George's
Hospital from a fractured skull, received by a fall from a
" traveller" at Smith and Taylor's Yard, Commercial-road,
Pimlico ; a medical practitioner, aged 69, died in the same Institution
from pressure on the brain, through being accidentally
knocked down by a Hansom cab at Hyde Park Corner;
a labourer, aged 35, died in New Grosvenor-place from fractured
ribs and ruptured liver, through falling from a scaffold
when at work; a porter at the Victoria Railway-station,
aged 27, from fractured legs and other injuries, received while
falling from a platform, the wheels of a railway carriage going