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year); measles 27, against 35; scarlet fever 62, or 10 in
excess of the previous year ; diphtheria 17; croup 12, against
15; glanders 1, sore throat 5, whooping-cough 47, typhus
fever 34, erysipelas 16, metria4; pyaemia rose from 19 to
30, of which 17 were non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital
; dysentery 1; diarrhoea rose from 58 to 89 ; cholera 6,
rheumatism 4, syphilis 7, and thrush 3. Tabes and scrofula
destroyed 13 persons, consumption 230, lung disease 311,
hydrocephalus, convulsions, and teething 128. The deaths
from accidents or negligence rose from 44 to 66, 45 of which
occurred to non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital. Of
the parishioners, an infant of 18 months was burnt to death
at No. 24, Stockbridge Terrace, and another of 11 months
was scalded to death at No. 8, Providence Court, by hot
water from a saucepan, which fell from a stove. An infant
of 8 days was poisoned by laudanum given in ignorance at
No. 10, George Street, Oxford Street. An architect aged
18, a man aged 70, a labourer aged 23, and a bootmaker
aged 39, were drowned in the Serpentine—the three first
while bathing; and a cab-driver, aged 73, died of suffocation
at No. 2, Bell Yard, Mount Street; while eating meat.
Murders of infants declined from 8 to 2. A tailor, aged 43,
destroyed himself with a knife, when insane. A solicitor
shot himself in Kensington Gardens, a coachman poisoned
himself with prussic acid in Hyde Park, a carrier took morphia
and strangled himself with a handkerchief, and a lady
took strychnine in " Battle's vermin killer." Seven persons
drowned themselves—three in the Serpentine and four in
the River Thames, one of whom was a non-parishioner. The
widow of a butler hung herself by a cord fastened to a towel
roller, at No. 73, Elizabeth Street. Ten infants also died
from causes not specified, or ill-defined. There was one
death from intemperance, and 12 from delirium tremens—3
of which were those of non-parishioners.