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Hospital, which is rather above the average, and 10 in the
Little Chelsea Workhouse.
If we look at the details we find no death from smallpox;
from measles 20 children died, of whom one only
resided in the Hanover Sub-District, viz., in South Moltonstreet;
the remaining 19 were scattered over the Belgrave
Sub-District,—for instance, in Whitaker, Cambridge, Stanley,
King, Queen, Sutherland, Westmoreland, Charlwood, Minera,
Westbourne, Warwick, and Hanover streets;—Cambridgeterrace;
Royal-mews, Chester mews, Wallis's-yard, St. Michael's-schools,
Wilton-road, and Brewer's-place. From
scarlatina, there were 8 deaths:—two in the Hanover, viz., in
Oxford-street and in North Bruton-mews; six in the Belgrave
Sub-District, viz., in Lupus, Gillingham, and Pont streets,
and two in one house in Denbigh-place. The deaths from
diphtheria, croup, and sore throat were also eight, from
whooping-cough thirteen, and out of the whooping-cough
cases, six occurred in the Hanover Sub-District. Out of
the foregoing 49 deaths, one only was of a person above 20;
almost all the rest were of mere babies under 5 ; but our next
item of fever, in its several varieties, is fatal to all ages
alike, and especially to persons advanced in life. Thus of
the 17 deaths from " fever," 8 were deaths of persons under
20, and nine above. A boy of 9 died in Thomas-street, in
the Hanover Sub-District (he had come there ill), and a
boy of 6 in Shepherd's-court, Upper Brook-street;—a boy
of 3 at Johnson's-place, one of 2 in Bridge-row, a boy of 4
and girl of 9 in one house in Berwick-street, and a girl of
17 in Tachbrook-street. But grievous as these deaths of
children are, it is still more grievous to think of young men
in the prime of life and usefulness—as a barrister of 27 in
Bolton-row, the son of a physician, aged 20, in Brook-street, a
groom of 40 in Belgrave-mews, a journeyman coachmaker of
23 in Hindon-street, a footman in Wilton-place, a mechanic of