The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-23 00:00:00

THE HEALTH OF THE WEST.

The returns just mimed by the lt,sistranGeneral are
yLujirksi.ty satisfactory. Births, it is true, ought t have
been 30-1, hut are only 317. and in Ihneer only 20 6, in
Devon r. 3 9; but the deaths were but 18 6, or no less then
23 below the average—the lowest reenrded since 12437.
The average of 4.3 year. was equal to 21 8, showing 20,000
tore p-ople living, who would have died had the dratts-
rate been maintained. The rate ranges in counties from
13 in Westmoreland tr 2110 in Ger nwsil and Lancashire;
in the ehiet towns it was 191; in tne rural districts 174 ;
In twenty of the tersest towns, including London, it was
only 90-5, ranging from 211 in Llyerpool to 18-6 in
B.ighton. Whooping-ttough stands at the head of symotic
disease', and diptheria at the end, no deaths at .11 from
this &seams in Dorastabire, and the whole zymotie rate
was nothing in Lyme Rosie, Sidenoutb, We-ton-super--
Mare, and in two other places—one on the Welsh coast
and the other on Dre South coast. All the deaths from
measles were not half the number of deaths from violence,
winch were equal to 35 per cent, of the total deaths.
Tin. entrust death-rate of 32 colonial and foreign cities
warn no less than 30'3 per 1,000, the lowest 19'7 being at
Geneva, the highest, dl 8, in St. Peteriburg. In Paris the
d. aths were in camas, and there were 'neon times more
deaths front war:et fever than in London. Damn, Devon,
ni S us •rest all soemnt chats for sin .11-pox. In
the T. ye dilorct there were 12 .1 rah. tr.= nseasle,
in Welliegtnn 21, Wivelire enbn 13. in Taunton 18. in
She p:on Niallet 111, and in Itslh 23 Tne:o were 10 eat...
of markt fer-r in Prom, and 13. In Keynshant. and 19
cases of meagre at Pori I .nd.

DESPERATE ATTE.VPT TO MURDER.
A desperate attempt haa been made to murder a man
newel Joseph Immo Vialtem on the premises of his
employers. Messrs. Mussy and klafinews, bullion
merchants and wh tlesale jewellers. ol L • !outsell-street,
London. A man named Arra Alphumo, • Staniar& 2I
ywire of age. is 111 w in custody charged with the Hence.
It appears thst the injured man, who now des at the
I ondon Hospital in • tuost critical ewe.. 23 yeaes 01 age.
The accused. ehu first tisecrib.el himself as a seaman . hut
Mut same mid that he was e teamed and earned Ms laving
as • tutor at Algiers, had Isern seen lurking shout the
neigh hourho. d I. r SOlllO flays. On owns the inju,ol man's
wife lasts the p.etnists for the supper 11,,,r, he Intim,' in
and 'truck Written, • violent Mew on the head with •
flied-blade hunting knite, lii inches lung, which Ircturrd
ti.akull sod Minded Mut aith blood. HC, howev. r. stuck
to his man, but as thrown t the grouno, the frould.h.,
ggegagin vsotinuing strafe him with the knife. The
accusal then rushed nut of the shop, followed by the
Injured man. railing ut for the police. and he ate chased
and secured. I. appear from inforivation who+ the police
h•re r •celvt•ct thst the knit*, •hich ii of tin lied by
bushranger,. WAS I.otlght in London on th• Vlh lett
month by • man ab. so deeerp ion corremehds with that
of the man in custody. The ,DjUrei men hae five severe
wounds about the head, ono ou the forehead, a fracture
on the skull, • very !severe c.it &cruel the throat, four or
live small cuts on the rim•t, two very sev...e One. or, the
right a, m, and 5100 the palm and back rf the right hand,
supposed to have been ihflicted whilst defend int himself.