The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

It appears from the weekly return of the Regis-
trar-General that the mortality of London was high in the
second and third weeks of November. as has been shown in
the reports for those periods ; but it has risen still higher in
the week that ended last Saturday, when the number of
deaths was 1,743. This is • considerably greater number
than in any corresponding week of the last ten years, except
that of the year 1858, when the number that occurred in a
lees than the present population was 1,738. The following
numbers show the oonstant increase of deaths in the four
weeks of the last month : they were 1,307, 1,429, 1,569, and
1,745. In the first of those weeks the mean temperature
of the air was about 45 deg,. In the last three the mean
weekly temperature was 37 dep. or 38 degs. The atmos-
phere was cold, and frequently very humid. Nearly 300
deaths occurred last week more than the number that would
have beer. returned if the average rate of mortality
at the end of November had ruled. Alth
the birth-rate was near the average last week, e
number of births exceeded that of deaths by only 89.
The table of fatal diseases shows the increase to have
been due principally to pulmonary complaints. The deaths
from " disease' of the respiratory organs" were in the last
four weeks successively 197, 233, 360, and 470 ; and to take
two special diseases in that class, those from bronchitis
were in the same periods 101, 130, 186. and 269 ; and from
pneumonia, 73, 115, 103, and 131. Phthisis, which ranks in
the table with "tubercular diseases," was fatal in the four
weeks in 152, 166, 177, and 169 cases. Nearly • half of the
deaths from bronchitis occurred at GO years of age and up-
wards. There were 94 fatal asses of measles and 95 of
scarlatina. Seven children died of roesales in (Emden-town,
6 in the East sub-district of Islington, 5 in St. Peter Wal-
worth. Scarlatina was fatal in 8 eases in the sub-district
of St. Mary, Paddingtoor in 5 in that of Bt. Peter, Wal-
worth, in 6in Rotherbithe. The registrar of St. May
(St. George's-in-the-East) reports that there have
been 7 cases of typhus in two families that reside in
the house, No. 9, Morgan-street, in his sob-district.
At • house in Francis-terrace, Rotherhithe, 4 children,
being the whole number of children in a family, have been
carried off by scarlatina within eleven days. Four deaths
are returned as caused by privation. The following are the
particulars of those cases :—On Bth November a man, aged
67 years, who had been an artificial florist, died in Pancras
workhouse of "exhaustion from starvation." On 17th
November, in the same workhouse, the widow of • tailor,
aged 43 years, died of " exhalation from starvation." On
24th November, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a loan un-
known, probably about 33 years of age, died of "cold and
want of food." He had been found in the Smithfield-pena
On 14th November, at 11, Parliament-street, Bethnal-
green, the son of • weaver, aged 3 months, died of "desti-
tution ; the mother not having mdk for the child from
want of food." Last week the births of 971 boys and BG3
girls, in all 1,834 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61 the
average number (corrected) was 1,879.