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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 belgkave sub-distkict.
In the Belgrave Sub-District 8,208 persons were treated
by the parochial surgeons, and at St. George's Hospital, the
Royal Pimlico Dispensary, the St. Paul and St. Barnabas'
Dispensary, and at the Workhouse, Little Chelsea.
Of these 4,914 were patients-at St. George's Hospital,
leaving a remainder of 3,294.
The total figures include 8 of small-pox, 12 of chickenpox,
3 of measles, 26 of scarlet fever, 8 of whooping-cough,
76 of diarrhoea, 5 of dysentery, 45 of continued fever, 27 of
rheumatic fever, 12 of erysipelas, 4 of diphtheria, and 3 of
carbuncle.
There were 781 cases of bronchitis, 9 of pleurisy, and
21 of pneumonia.
The following are the particulars of the cases of smallpox,
namely,—
At No. 29, Pulford-street—Leahin, set. 13, vaccinated.
At No. 1, Ranelagh-grove—Alice Lucas, set. 20, vaccinated
; sent to the Small Pox Hospital 18th January, 1865.
At No. 11, Effingham-street—a boy, set. 14, unvaccinated.
At No. 14, Flask-lane—Wells, set. 4 months.
At No. 12, Princes-row—Elizabeth Jobbing, set. 3, unvaccinated.
At No- 1, Elizabeth-place—Alice Dickson, set. 12, vaccinated.
At No. 5, Cutmore-buildings—Lydia Allen, set. 2, unvaccinated.
At No. 4, Gregory-street—a female, vaccinated.
There were also sent to the Small Pox Hospital a man,
aged 37, from 1, Elizabeth-place on 30th January, G. C.,
set. 24, on 24th January, and Emily S., set. 32, on 23rd.
C. J. B. ALDIS, M.D.
R. DRUITT.