The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

HZ4LTH OP LONDON.

The weekly return of the Registrar-General
exhibits • lower mortality this has been recorded for aay
Ina Gino, the contmencerosst of the year. The deaths in
Loudon in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,586.
The average number in ding weeks of tee yeah
1854-63 is, with • correction or increase of population,
1.409 ; it appears, therefore, that the metropolis is still far
from being an • healthy state, u the deaths of last week
were 177 in moan of the estimated amount. The deaths by
symotic diseases were 323, the corrected average
for corresponding weeks being 2'32. Fatal cases of
small-pox rose from 8 in the previous week to
last week. Measles, on the contrary, decreased from 32
to IR. Scarlatioa carried off 55 persons, diphtheria 11,
whooping-cough 56, and typhus 63. Of the deaths re-
gistered last week from diseases of the respiratory *On, Ds,
248 occurred from bronchitis, 102 from pneumonia, 4 from
pleurisy, and 21 from asthma. ?bible's or conaumptioe was
fatal in 182 cases. Ooe hundred and sixty persons died from
diseases of the bran and nervous system ; of these 47 children
are returned as having died of coovulsioes, 42 persons died
from apoplexy, sod 29 from paralyaia. 693 ponces died wader
20 years of age, 493 were 20 sod under 60, and 400 were 60
yearn and upwards. The deaths of seven nonagenarians
are recorded, the oldest of whom was a widow, who had at-
tained the age of 93 years. Fit tymioe deaths occurred from
accidents ; 11 persons, 7of whom were children, died from
burns or scalds ; 14 children were suffocated, and 27 per-
sons were killed by fractures or contusions. Many of these
lives were probably sacrificed through careleesoma
the neglect of ordinary precautioo. The eon of •ea
roaster, aged 12 years, died at De Beanvoir-equare,
West Hackney, from effusion on the chest from want
of proper food. The daughter of a sawyer. residing
at 8, New-square, Limehousie, died from effusion of serum into
the pericardium from want of food and clothing, and ex-
posure. A female, aged 39 nem employed as a collar-
diteber, died at 33a, Baltic-street, st. Luke s, from intim.
nation of the lungs, caused by destitution and exposure to
cold. The daughter of a weaver, aged us year, dud at 15,
Colliogwoodatnnt, Betboal green, of emaciation from waist
of proper nourishment. The infant moo of a labourer died
suddenly at 3, Latimer-cottegee, Mile-sad, from cold sod 'i-
nsure. it greengrocer, aged 40 yeius, died at the West-
minster Hospital from lotions, the result of an injury to
his chin by a whip bah whilst striking his horse.
week the births of 1,066 bo a and 1,006 girls, is all 2,122
cbildrec, were registered in In lb* ten correspond.
log weeks of the years 1854-63 the average lumber (cor-
rected) was 2,044.

ACCLIMATISATION IN ArSTßALlA.—According to
the last report of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society ,39
varieties of birds bars been introduced into Victoria. The
introduetine of the Liguria° bee Is likely to be a soccer. 41.
each I, offered for the Met 20 English harm landed alive.
Tasmania has spent 2.0001. in unsuccessful &temente to
intreine• salmon. Goyim' elks have been libenited in order
that they may spread over the colony of Vistsels.