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and property, and love of life, or, the reverse, in the in
habitants.
THE SICKNESS.
In the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-Districts, the number
of persons who obtained medical attendance from the
Parochial Medical Officers was 305, from the Dispensary
Mount-street, 705; and in the Sick Wards of the Workhouse
Mount-street, the large number of 220; total, 1230.
There were 1 case of small-pox, 1 of chicken-pox, 1 of
measles, 3 of scarlatina, 15 of whooping-cough, 9 of diarrhoea,
1 of dysentery, 9 of continued fever, 1 of erysipelas, 352 of
bronchitis and catarrh, 3 of diphtheria, 3 of pleurisy, and 3
pneumonia.
The case of small-pox was that of a girl named Harriet
Fowler, aged 10, sent to the Small-pox Hospital from No. 2,
Hart-street; she had been vaccinated in infancy by Mr. Jay.
The case of measles occurred in the third week of March, in
North-row. The scarlet fever cases were those of a child in
North Bruton-mews, fatal; and 2 children living with their
mother in an empty house in John-street, Berkeley-square.
The black feature in this list are the cases of continued
fever, of which one in Brown-street, and one in Shepherd'scourt,
proved fatal. The others occurred in Grosvenormarket,
Thomas-street, John's-court, Hart-street, and Mountrow.
Besides these, there were sent to the Fever Hospital,
12th January, 1866, Honorah Dowling, tramp; 29th January,
John Matthews, tramp (transferred to the Small-pox Hospital)
; 17th March, Walter Wiltshire 31, tramp; 29th *
March, Emma Smith 40, tramp.
There were also sent to the Small-pox Hospital (besides
the girl mentioned above)—
1866.—January 20, John Purchardt, aged 25, came from