The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-21 00:00:00

HEALTH AND DISEASE.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
(From the Registrar-Generere Weekly Return.)

The mortality iii Londm has risen, spparently in con-
se,mence of the cold weather. The deaths were leas
thsti 1,390 in each of the two previous weeks; in the
week that ended last Bsturday they were 1,442. In
the ten ye•rii 1850-::9 the average number of deaths in
the weeks correapoinling with last week WAD 1,188 ; but
as the deaths in the present return occurred in • popu-
lation that has increased, they should be compared with
the average raised in proportion to the increase—namely
with 1,306. The comparison shows that 136 persons
died last week, who would have survived if the rate of
mortality had not exceeded the average for this period
ot the year. The 1110.0 temperature of the air has been
lower than the average on every day, except two, of lb*
current month. On last Friday the mean was as low as
dez. ; on December 17th in last year it was 221
deg., and on the seine day the therouseter fell as low as
199 deg.
The deaths arising from pulmonary diseases, not in-
cluding plithisis, roam from :48 and 389 in the two pre-
vious weeks to 401 last week ; the corrected average for
10 weeks oorresponding to last week is 296. This elan
, of complaints is at the present time, therefor*, mach
1111 l re fatal than usual. In the corresponding week of
1955. when the mean temperature of the air was as low
as 309 deg., the deaths under the same head rose to
424; but, with this eiception, they were considerably
lees in all the corresponding weeks than the number
shown ii. tile present return. Bronchitis was fatal last
week in 217 cases, pneumonia in 144, phthisis (or con-
sumption) in 129; and it deserves to be noticed that the
lirit two were more fatal, the last less fatal than usual.
The deaths from small imx now returned are 37, of
which 10 occurred to persons 20 years old and upwards.
There were 37 from scarlatina, 4 of which were returned in
the sub-district of Kensington-town and 4 in Rotherhithe.
There were also 11 from iliplitheri& A hawker of fruit
died at 90, Great Peter-street, Westminster, from desti-
tution. A labourer died from apoplexy, caused by
inhaling the vapours of spirit in • ruin vault in the
Loudon Ducks. Seven persons did at the age of 90 years
and nee/anis, and among these was • wider in the
RatTlebune Workhouse, who had attained this age of
100.
Last week the births of 1,030 boys and 991 girls, in all
2,021 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1830-9 the average
number was 1,721.

PUBLICANS' POBT WIN Z.—A London Incumbent
writing to the Tikuv, says And no relief so much
valued by the poor of my permit as the gift of port wine
in cases of sickness. Tile reason is that assigned by
"Sitiens the " publicans port wine" is poison ; and
the poor have not the opportunity of buying anything
else. 1 alwas now keep a supply of wine to meet this
difficulty, b 0 far as I am aide, and the uniform result of
my experience proves to me how immense would be the
benefit to those classes by whom port wine is only used
as • medicine were they enabled to obtain it for them-
selves.

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only March used. atul Is held In auch high iNtimation by the
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contiouing In incriase, cith unprecoted raptdity. Muni-
lecturers of Inferior articles. alter making abortive
to introduce their manufacture' on their own emettkia
recently commenced to Imitate the Outertela PATONg
In the forni of Package and colour ol pow sod latrak Ura pro-
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