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theria, in Pulford-street, and 2 girls, each aged 11, in
Sutherland-street and Hugh-street respectively.
Whooping-cough destroyed 7 children in the Hanover
Sub-District; the death of one of these was registered
thus:—
"11th April, 1866, 5, Hereford-street, Park-lane, M.,
3 years, son of a police-serjeant. Pertussis, bronchitis,
varicella, variola after vaccination, about eight days." This
combination was surely enough to destroy a child! As the
whooping-cough, pertussis, is mentioned first, the death is
entered under that head, and not under small-pox.
There were 5 deaths from croup. One in Unionstreet,
Bond-street; another in Hayes-mews; a third in
Wilton-terrace; and two in St. George's Hospital of nonparishioners.
A boy, aged 2, died from sore throat in
Moreton-place. Fever destroyed 5 persons;—a girl, aged
4, in Hertford-place; a boy, aged 5, in Weaver's-place,
North-row; a young woman, aged 25, in Bruton-street;
a boy, aged 9, in Hanover-street, Pimlico; and a woman,
aged 42, in Cambridge-terrace. There were 6 deaths
from erysipelas. There were 4 deaths from pyaemia; one
in a parishioner, in St George's Hospital, from Upper
Ebury-street; and a man, aged 40, died of carbuncle, at the
same institution, who came from Effingham-street. An infant
died of dysentery in Oxford-street. Diarrhoea proved
fatal to 4 persons. One death from choleraic diarrhoea was
registered in the first week of June. The patient was the
daughter of a physician, in South-street, aged 6 months;
healthy till vacciuated, but ever afterwards affected with
abscesses, diarrhoea, and other signs of pyaemia, which at
last proved fatal. Another in Lupus-street, a third in
Wallis's-yard, and a fourth in Sutherland-place. A death
from canker happened in Gloucester-street.
Diseases of degeneration and ill-development destroyed