The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-18 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK

The official report is as follows —The mortality of
London, which rose to 1,100 deaths in the first weeks of the
year, has gradually declined, and in the week ending last
Saturday the number was only 970. Taking the ten cor-
responding weeks of 1812-61 it appears that last week's
amount was less than previous returns in six instances, and
greater in four, and that the average of corresponding weeks
was 1,048. If this average be corrected for increase of
population it becomes 1,163, compared with which the pre-
sent return shows a decrease cf 183.

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The mortality. from diseases of the respiratory organs ex-
hibits a trifling increase on that of tho previous week, but
is still considerably below tho average; the number of fatal
eases last week baying been 185, while in corresponding
weeks of the last five years they ranged from 199 to 330.
In the tubercular class the deaths from phthisis or con-
sumption were in the previous week 147. in the last they
were 122, which latter amount is also below the average.
The total number of cases ascribed to zymotie or epidemic
diseases was in the previous week 201 ; it is now 191.10 f
the latter sum 29 (about the same as in the former week)
are referred to small-pot, 9 to measles, 30 to waxbills', 33
to hooping-cough, 3 to croup, 3 to thrush, 22 to diarrhrea,
3 to dysentery, 3 to cholera 4 to influenza, 42 to typhus
and other fever, 7 to erysipelas, and 3 to syphilis.
At 11, Seven-step-alley, Aldgate, on the 12th February,
a labourer, aged 50 years, died of "chronic bronchitis."
The medical attendant writes on his certificate : " Ile died
asphyxiated from tho impure air of the locality, which is
unfit for human habitation." _ _ _

A woman was registered last week whose death was tho
result of intemperance, and there are three cases of persons
dying from privation, of which the following are the parti-
entire : On the 9th of February in St. Saviour's workhouse
• widow, aged 79 years, died from " want of necessary
food; bronchitis (one week)." In the north sub-district of
Whitechapel, in Elizabeth-court, on sth January, •
labourer, aged 54 years, died " a natural death, accelerated
by want of common necessaries" (Inquest) ; and in tho
workhouse in the same subdistrict, on 314 January, a
labourer, aged 47 years, died "a natural death; sudden
from exhaustion and privations " (Inquest). A cabdriver
from Nags.head-yard, St.James's, Westminster. died on 9th
February, in Middlesex Hospital, at the age of 30 years, of
" alanchrs." And again last week two deaths were reale-
, tered as caused by carbuncle, namely, that of the widow of
a Mercantile clerk, aged 48 years, which occurred on 4th
February. in Brunswick-street, Raggentone, from "car-
buncle (7 days), exhaustion," and that of the wife of a
painter, aged 63, which occurred on Bth February, in Bird-
street, Lambeth, from "carbuncle (60 days), extensive
slough of the akin (l 6 days)."
Last week the births of 803 boys, and 798 girls, in all
' 1,601 children, were registered in London. In seven COI,
tesponding weeks of 1815-51 the average was 1.402.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean daily
reading of the barometer was above 30 in. on Saturday;
the mean of the week was 29.645 in. The mean daily tem-
perature was 108 deg. above the average of the same day
in ten years on Sunday ; on Monday the excess was only
1.7 deg.; and on the remaining five days the daily mean
was below the average. On Sunday the mean daily tem-
perature was 49.4 deg. ; on Monday it fell to 40.6 deg. ;
and it continued to fall till Thursday, when it was 34.3
deg.; on the two following days it slightly increased. The
mean of the week was 38.8 (leg., which is near the average.
The wind blew from the south-west on the first two days,
lon the next three from the north, and towards the end of
the week from S.S.E.

ACCIDENT AT ME,SES. COMAE. AND DELIFIELD.S.
A frightful accident occurred on Monday night to a man
named James Wahy, in the employ of the above firm, at
th-ir brewery, King-street, Long-acre. Ile was passing
along one of the floors of the establishment when he fell
down through an opening into a vault, descending between
two beer butts, by the iron hoops of which he was dread-
fully injuml. llis seresms were alarming, and prompt
assistance being rendered, he was found on the ground de-
luged in blood, his face being literally smashed, and his
left arm crushed and broken short otf above the elbow, tho
bones protruding. Being immediately conveyed to Middle-
sex Hospital, his jaws were found to be extensively frac-
tured, and the injuries to the arm so great as to render
amputation of the limb necessary. He was accordingly
placed under chloroform, and in a few seconds the opera-
tion was skilfully performed. He is not espectttl to sur-
vive.
AMONG TILE PASSENGERS WHO LEFT SOUTHAMP-
TON yesterday in the Royal West India mail packet Clyde,
which took out the West India and Pacific mails, were
Lord Harris, the Governor of Trinidad, and. Captain Booth,
tho Lieut.-Governor of Montserrat.