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weather, but the parents should reflect that, if they do not
die of fever they may die of inflammation—that in avoiding
Scylla they may fall into Charybdis. Whatever may be
the cause we shall all watch with interest the rate of mortality
during the present year. But the Table does not give an
adequate idea of the case3 of sickness which have received
attendance from the Royal Pimlico and the St. Paul and
St. Barnabas' Dispensaries during the same period. I am
able to give a return of the patients attended from the
latter Institution. One hundred and forty patients were
treated,—of whom 1 was affected with chicken-pox, 7 with
measles, 6 with scarlet fever, 3 with whooping-cough, 1 with
croup, 10 with diarrhoea, 1 with erysipelas, 29 with bronchitis,
and 1 with quinsy,—making a total of 59. The
remaining 81 diseases were principally slight rheumatic pains,
debility, and diseases of the digestive organs.
The following model lodging houses are situate in the InWards.
Bloomfield Place, Grosvenor Mews, New Bond
Street; contains 28 families, consisting of about 112 persons;
but it so happens that no death has been registered
within the period of this report. Middle Row, also in
Grosvenor Mews, contains 32 families, and about 135 persons,
where 3 died, and those three adults, namely, 1 woman,
age 25, of consumption; 1 man, aged 51, of diseased heart;
and 1 woman, aged 31, of general anasarca.
Besides these there are Oxford House, Grosvenor Market;
containing 6 families and 30 persons, deaths 0,and Nos. 21 and
22 in the same place, the former accommodating 11 families
and 36 persons, and the latter 4 families and 21 persons.
At No. 21, an infant, of 18 months, died of tabes
mesenterica ; a male, of 34, of aneurism ; an infant, of 4
months, of convulsions; another, of 11 weeks, of choleraic
diarrhœa; and a man, of 52, of consumption. At No. 22,
there were no deaths.