The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-02 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON.

It appears from the weekly return issued by the I
mistrat-geaseal that the deaths is Londe°, which resebed
1,514 is the last week in July, declined to 1,334 in the week
that ended tdaturday, the 29th August. Those of
ender twenty years of ems de
years fru 870 to 7fr d
those which occurred at sixty years of age and upwards fell
from 246 to 173. The average number of deaths derived from
ten corresponding weeks, vex, the thirty-fifth week in seek
of the years 1853-62, with the omission of deaths from dol-
lars in 1854 and with a correction forincream of populatioc,
is 1,191. The actual number in last week, therefore, ex-
ceeds the average by 143. The death; from small-pox in
the four previous weeks were socormively 43. 49 45, 39,
and last week 31. Tie average for the corresponding week
in the last tan years was 9. The deaths from measles were
11; from eoarlatins and diphtheria, 141; from whooping-
emigh, 29; from typhus and other fevers, 49; from disc-
rhan, cholera, and dysentery, 194 ; from OW*
ISt; from pneumonia, 31 ; and from heart dismay M.
AllO, Dartmouth-terrace, Itotherhithe, on the 23rd Aug*,m
lie wile of an engineer. aged 37 years, died of premonitory
diankaa (2 days), AMA. chohni (27 bows, sporadic)."
The medical attendant Maim that the air at this sabering,

epee awl bealtby aoiriabourboed fa frequently poieoued by
eaumatteso tier aleft manure factory.
.

Lest week the births od BY6 bey end 640 girls, in all
1.705 children. were registered in Loudon. ln tbe ten eor-
nengendieg weeks el the years 1853-62 the average number
loorrected) was 1,859.

MiarßoiktiocAir Faso HOOPITAL. —Otie of the I
aorta of the removal of St. Thomas's Hospital has
lees to east a greater amount of work upon the Metro-
politan kree Handal, Devooshire-square, Bishopvgate.
Desiog the past year the aggregate number of attar:lances
of patients was 1f6,983, an increase of nearly 11,000
awspared with the previous year. Is the two nutethe
hionechately
_icaceediog the closing of the establishment
et Losidoeltidam there was on increase in the attendance
of patiente at the Metropolitan at 3.391, being at ti.•
rate of 'upwards of 20,000 per seem. TN ex-
edited woeCft staff attached to the hospital are not
at all diaooocerted by this increase ; the only canoe for
:valet is, that the additional burden is not aocompanici
by corresponding maw of support. Heavy liabilities
were incurred to provide for the edits prom" and special
appeals made to the public. but these, although in soma in-
/41MM handsomely responded to, have proved insufficient to
relieve the Coepitel of the incubus of a debt amounting to
nearly 2,000/. The hospital diffau, as its name implies,
from other hoer:dials ie this respect, that no letters of re-
ersomendatioo are escemory ; the applicant need but be
destitute and sick to ensure obtaining medical or surgical
treatment. This promptitudeof action is very frequently
the DHOW of checking the development of contagious dis-
ease, and thereby preventing an incalculable amount of
misery and suffering. The hospital is unendowed, and
dependent entirely upon voluntary contributions for its
support. It. income is therefore ever fluctuating. and
away influenced by circumstances of an extraordinary
elassacter ; such for instance as the heavy claims
upon public bamindence occasioned by the Hartley
colliery socideet, and still more recently, the distrait in
Lowlife. The hospital. situated as it is in one of the
meat densely populated portion of the City, and coettgueua
te the overcrowded and notoriously poor perishes of
116Spel, Bethealgreen, Spitalfielda, sad Shoreditch, pommies
great claims upon the wealth liberality oft the fellow-
aliases. When we see the noble antecriptions which an
seised from time to time for other and frequently more die•
test object', we cannot doubt for we moment but that an
Institution so dsserviag will be at woe and for ever reamed
from the difficulties with which eat is now cootend:ntinkt-
tribationa will be thankfully received by the
Messrs. Lased. Hoare, arid Co., 62, Lentterd-street ;Johi
Mersey Fry, laq, 14, St. Belan's-pice ; and at the bat-
pita', by Mr. George Creston, seetitgary.
Tim Exotics nom Livissrom—The it • n
easiois et Lieurpeei have jest ampleted wed
monthly Mara of esel=safrein the ILwosy. Fran these
Mersa we leers that • the =math there sailed 16
ships" Is the On board then
view& then were 403 cabin earl 6,477 stomp
T. Needs then me owl: ter ship with 38 cabiaP=lllt
0111111101 L To Victoria there were 3 ships, with 11 sabot
sod 1,266 seawege. Of vessels sot under the wit there
sailed to the Maki IMMO 12, having ca beard 7411100 r
mows to Ora& 3 ships with MO ; New
Besessnek 1 ship with St pseeessevertarrseaseewea's
bleed 1 ship with 10 poweesers to Walt laths lamb
2 ships witb 8 peamegme ; M Abbe 1 ship with 13 per
sewn ; and to Routh America 3 air with 67 poussesis.
Ppm the above gores ft will be sae that the United
laser spin Twelves by far the larger amber of migesaia.
Vim compared with the seam smith of hat year we find
that there is an lemma of 4.397—the madam Win
la 184 6,424 ; is 1982. MIA The total untlihtw 41111
ear which have left Liverpool far the lest eight mietbs
110 L