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Hanover Square 1865

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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sickness in the belgrave sub-district.
In the Belgrave Sub-District 7,851 persons were treated
by the parochial surgeons, and at St. Georges's Hospital, the
Royal Pimlico Dispensary, the St. Paul and St. Barnabas'
Dispensary, and at the Workhouse, Little Chelsea.
Of these 4,906 were patients at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 2,945.
The total figures include 1 of small-pox, 3 of chickenpox,
85 of measles, 15 of scarlet fever, 105 of whooping-cough,
150 of diarrhoea, 3 of dysentery, 30 of continued fever, 5 of
rheumatic fever, 19 of erysipelas, 3 of diphtheria, and 3 of
carbuncle.
There were 647 cases of bronchitis, 15 of pleurisy, and
44 of pneumonia.
The following are the particulars of the case of small-pox,
namely:
No. 6, little Charlotte-street, Eliza Smith, aet 18—removed
to the Small-pox Hospital.
C. J. B. Aldis, M.D.
R. Druitt.