The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

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HEALTH AND DISEASE.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
(Frew the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, February the
18th, 1,44 deaths were registered in London; 757 were
the deaths of males, and 697 of females. In the ten
years 1/450.59 the average number of deaths in the weeks
corresponding with last week was 1,171 ; but, as the
deaths returned last week occurred in an increased
populat ~,,, , the average to admit of a,uiparison should
be raised proportionally to the increase—namely, to
1.235. It appears, therefore, that the deaths of last
week exceeded by 166 the number which the average
death-rate would have produced. Smallpox proved fatal
in 31 cases, while scarlatina carried MT 40 permus. And
whooping cough 40. Diseas,es of the respiratory organs
were the OHM of 415 ileatlia ; of these 250 were
attributed to bronchists (which is still on the inereaAe),
and 125 to puma ttttt ilia. The deaths referred to phaisis
(or oonsusuption) were 165. Eight persona died at the
age of 90 years and upwards, and among these was a
man reading in Gonlaton-street. liVhitecliapel, who it is
said, had attainee the age of 101.
Laid week the biiths of 9110 boys and 910 girls, in all
1,880 children, were registered in London. In the 10
corn...pond:it' weeks of the years 1850-59 the average
number was 1,7(16.

'foes° LADIES TN THE COUNTRY.—In the country
it ought to be an unnatural circumstance that young
ladies are ever out of health. Besides the fresh air,
and liberty and sociability of rural life, there is such
various and abundant and charming employment for
young people. Early hours. plentiful exercise, sunlight
without stint, and an ocean of fresh air; food perpetu-
ally fresh from the kitchen garden, thefartuyard, and
the river—here are conditions of health of very high
The higher still seem to be no leas plentifully
afforded. In a lountry neighbourhood every body
knows everybody; and the calls for kindly action are
incessant stid perfectly natural. There are out-door pur-
suits for the whole year round for girls of any spirit—
the garden and green-lionse, the poultry-yard, the bees,
and various branches of natural history, in which there
is at prevent a demand for ability of every kind. Lite-
rature, again, and art are treasures within reach, and
nowhere tio they flourish more than in the bright salmis.-
pliere of rtual life. Evening* of books are singularly
ehartuing after mornings of activity among the realities
of the Gnu, the breezy asunnou, the blossoming lanes,
and the village school.
A enttots Saame.th CAna.—A rare instance of a
perfect recovery from • desperate wound was brought
a few day ago under the notice of the Academy of Medi,
mac hy Dr. Larrey. who at the sante time press iit,d to
that body an American. M. Preterre. to whose medical
skill and •ttailliblent of the full result was due. At the
battle of Magenta, a surgeon of the 85th of the lino was
struck by a musket ball which, after completely shatter-
ing the lower jaw, came out behind from under the
skull, close to the cervical vertebras, which had they
been ifijured, would liars rendered the case hopeless.
It is hardly credible that so extensive an injury, in-
flicted in such aii impartant region of the human frame,
could have admitted of cure, and it reflects high credit
on the army surgeons who attended lion. To restore
the power of mastication by mechanical mearui 31,
Preterre was called in, and sueiseedtd in liis task by an
ingenious contrivance, which lass been greatly adtuired•
bp the first surgeons in Paris. Such of our readers as
the subject may interest will find an account of this
contrivanios in the Ua:crie des 11Gpifa5r.

HOLLOwaTt OIXIIIIIIII. Alla PILL.. •nrio-Isdkins mei
Native. during the rainy mid cold mason. are
obnoxioux k. gout, rebut...stir:a, and fever.—ti=
Preparation. then become • treasure impossible to over.valse.
contracted Joint., rubbed •ith thin penetrating Ointment,
mon ft-gaiter their flexibility. The local pain and Inflarnation
In gout and rehumatiatu are Invariabiy relieved by It. Even
In cave• u here limb. have been partially peril) Bed ham they
regained the power of motkim and original vigour. N
tledoloreux and all other affection. of the nerves of
or motion, may be cured with equal facility by theism* mew
The Pills by their dim* operation ma the Wood, aud a lie
Neretione, ever from a noble auxiliary to ihs otitsma.