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the sickness.
In the quarter ended 30th December, 1865, the number
of patients attended by the Medical Officers of the Parish and
Dispensary, and in the Sick Wards of the Workhouse Mountstreet,
was 1,018, of which number, 161 were treated in the
Workhouse.
Amongst these cases were one of small-pox, 2 of measles,
20 of scarlet fever, 33 of diarrhoea, 17 of continued fever,
2 of ague, 4 of erysipelas, 242 of bronchitis and catarrh, 2 of
diphtheria, one of pleurisy, and 3 of pneumonia.
The case of small-pox was that of a young man named
Charles B., aged 20, vaccinated, at 18, South Bruton-mews.
The 20 cases of scarlatina, were at 3, John's-court, 21 and
23, Bloomfield-place, 10, Avery-row, Cock-yard, Providencecourt,
Davies-mews, North-row, Mount-row, Grosvenormarket,
Pollen-street, Union-street, S6, Thomas-street, Johnstreet,
Grosvenor-mews, of these the following were fatal,
viz.: in John's-court, 23, Bloomfield-place, 5, North-row,
two at 5, Mount-row. One was sent to the Fever Hospital,
viz., Thomas Pendrell, aged 12, from 10 Avery-row.
Of the 33 cases of diarrhoea, one only can be identified in
the death register, and not one of the 17 fever cases. A
young woman of 24 died in the Workhouse, of puerperal fever,
a week after delivery. The cases of ague happened to
strangers. One of the diphtheria patients was a male-servant,
aged 17, at a public-house in Duke-street, who died in the
Workhouse. He slept in a very ill ventilated room, but no
source of infection could be traced.
A maid-servant was also sent to the Fever Hospital, from
a house in Upper Grosvenor-street.