The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-07 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON.

The report published by authority of the Re-
&km. r-Geaeral states that in the week that eadedlast Satur-
day 1,274 deaths were registered in Loodoe. The average
soaker of deaths in ten corresponding weeks (185342), with
tbeelainioa of deaths from cholera in the fortieth week of
1854, sod with a correction for increase of powaistios,
becomes 1.159. Tim present returns show an excess of 115
! above the animated number. Titers were 22 fetid owes of
I acall.poe is the week, showing a further decrease ea these
in previous weeks. Scarlatina still prevails mesh, and shows
a teedeacy to increase ; the deaths from it rine to 154 lad
week. Five deaths from this latter disease warred in
Keesisgtoo-town subdistrict, 8 in Kentish-tows, 9 in
laliegtoe, 9 in Limehonee, and 7 is St. Peter Welecen,„
13 deaths from syphilitic disease were registered ; 10 of
these amongst children. Phthisis was fatal in 160 cues.
Lest week the bulbs of 1,037 boys and 898 girls, in all
1,935 children, were regidered in London. In the ten cor-
reeponding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,736.
At the Royal Oteervatary, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.660 io. The reading
decreased frets 30.05 in. on Sunday to 29.119 in. os Thurs-
day. The mess temperature of the air in the week was
52 dogs., which i. 1.8 deg. below the averse, of the same
week in 43 years (as &tenni ued by Mr. Glaisher.) The
highest day tessperature was 63.2 dogs. on Wednesday.
The kook eight tereperatme was 35 dada on the name
day. The range of temperature in the week, and also on
that day, woe therefore 28.2 dew. The difference between
the mess dew-point temperatuie arid sir temperature was
4.7 dogs. The mean degree of humidity of the sir was 84,
complete saturation being represented by 100. On Saturday
the humidity rens to 96. The wind blew on six days from
the south-west. The rile measured was 0.78 in.
In the thirteen weeks that ended 26th September 17,105
deaths were registered in London. Of that amebae 9,821,
or considerably more then half, occurred to persons nadir
twenty yeses of age. The number of persons who died at
80 years of age and upwards, was only 449. The diarrhoea
that prevails I. summer, warlaties, and seaall-pox have
bees very fatal ; sod es regards the two former diseases the
safferers in • great proportion of cases were children.
In the healthy summer (July, August, September) of
1860, in which the mean temperature of the air was as low
56 deg. 8 min., the deaths were leas than 13,000 ; sad in the
summer of 1859, when the mean temperature was as high
as 62 deg. 9 mi.., the deaths were 16.000. They were
17,106. as has bees stated, in the lame three months of
the present year, the mean temperature of which was
59 2 ma. The excess. of last quarter over the same
period of 1859 is about 1,1014 and is des to a certain extent
to increase of population.
Small-pox was fatal in the quarter in 512 cases, of which
160 occurred at 20 years of age and upwards. This malady
bee been unusually prevalent But the deaths from scarla-
tina were far more numerous; they rose to 1.519; and
those from diarrhea and summer cholera wo • 1,938.
The following are sub-districts in which the deaths from
small-pox were most numerous :—Kensington Town. where
there were 17 ; St Margaret Westminster. 11 ; Rectory
Maryleborie, 11 ; Tottenham-court, 13 ; St Andrew East,
16 ; Whitecrossetreet, 12 ; St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
11 ; Hoxton New Town, 10 ; flaggewthee West. 10 ; Hag-
piston* East, 12; Old Town East, 10. There
were comparatively few deaths from small-pox is the dis-
tricts on the south side of the titer, as will appear when
the larger population of that district is taken into account.
Souristum was particularly fatal in the East districts, where
,it numbered 459. Many deaths from this disease occurred
! also in Kensington-town, St John Westminster; Rectory
Marylebese ; Somers-town, Kentish-town, Islingtoo, West
' Leedom, North; Walworth, Rotberbitbe, and Deptford.
1 Diarrhoea appears to have spread with great severity
amospt the children of lalington and of the subdistrict of
Christchurch, Marylebone.

Dmitsw. —A singular and unaccountable occurrence
took plasm barest 20 mientre past 3 yesterday mooing. The
tow. at that hour was visited by a amen shock, the shit- I THE LATS EMANCIPATION MPETINO AT LEEDS.
kiag 'motioning for several minutes, and the greatest alarm , Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., chairman of the meeting held on
was manifested by • large proportion of the inhabitants who. the ?led alt., is eapport et the nose of . omaricipstion in
seu
Baer ttral iniforr..of thooltis.tisibeh Forovsmeot,
feared that their dwellings were giving way. Borne assert
Ilitesmanalireidd stk.
that they experienced violent rocking, of their beds, others tee ....ie., el • eery "legertilii:.
paid rill
that they ware awoke by a noise resembling the mead of .y.4;7
hurtholl eetetieg their Pretnime, and, indeed, the town wee idsLannnot.Y Felons COINCIDENI73,—The death,
thrown bite great ooefusion, the prevailing belief Win that at Major /Moak fanning some melancholy wipe:Weiser. in
it was an earthquake. Thii sensation was general, sod wee the history at his family in comma iou with the war. His
also felt is the villages in tie immediate vicinity of the CZertbs°46•2l.l7.l•Notwja:i a.titlesofi.ni tittle of Bull
taws. TM bight w" eeey "Ir°' w" the slights" wiled Bohm
'Moak, was Mid an da'y of Jul.
1862, sad the
sibriag to which such a remarkable phenomenon could be tether himself ewe killed on the 21st dey et July, 1863.
atielbstahle. The greeting ezatteweat prevails. I Cincinnati Enquirer.

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