The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-30 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

The official report says :—ln the week that ended
last Saturday the deaths registered in the metropolitan
districts were 990. In the ten weeks corresponding to last
week of the years 1842-61, the average number of deaths
was 952, which, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion during these years, and up to the present time, be-
' eases 1,047. The mortality of last week is, therefore, leas
the. the estimated amount by 57.
I. the present return the deaths of 490 males and 600
Ismake are recorded, and they occurred at the following
!gee —467 under 16 years of age, 340 at 16 years and under
ID, and 180 at GO years and upwards. In comparing the
beta of the previous week with those of last, there appears
as increase in the total mortality of epidemics from 196 to
216, caused by scarlatina, typhus, and other fever, which
have apparently become more prevalent. The fatal cases
referred te ordsdatna last week were 68, those to typhus 47.
Interraittest fever carried off one person, remittent fever
2, dissaistie fever 2,Crysipelas 4, influents 2, diarrhea and
dysentery, 18, small-pox 24. Three children and an adult
died of syphilis. Five women sunk under puerperal fever,
besides five others to whom other diseases incidental to
childbearing were fatal.
Tern deaths from cholera occurred on the same day, the
10th Jaw, sod were registered as follows :—At 1, Pelham.
dreet, Mile-end New Town, the daughter of a bricklayer,
aged 4 months, died of "cholera (2 days)." At 116, Went-
wortbstrect, Whitechapel North, the daughter of a fur-
dyer, aged 3 years, died of " English cholera (48 homer
Of the 24 lives destroyed by small-pox last week 20 were
shod of children, 4 those of adults.
Mr. Long, the Registrar of the South subdistrict of
Chelsea, registered 14 births but no deaths during the
week.

Nine children were registered, who at various previous
dates had been suffocated in bed. Mr. Simpson, Registrar
of the North sub-district of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, regis-
tered 4 deaths that occurred in this manner at the rupee
Gee ages of 3 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, and 9 months, on
the Ist, 2nd, 6th, and Bth of May. At 11, Globe-road,
Rethnal-green,' the widow of a mastrnalicr is reported to
have died on the 18th of June at the great age of 100 years
and 2 months. Five penons were registered as the victims
of intemperance. beside two ethers whose ueaths were in.
directly caused by the same vicious habit.
The births of 818 boys and 738 girls, in all 1,6.54 children,
were registered in the week. The average number in
seven corresponding weeks of the years 1814.61 was 1.42.5.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometee in the week was 29616 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 4811 degrees, which is below
the average of the same week in ten years. The wind blew
from the south and south-west.

THE LATE How. J. C. TALBOT, Q.C.—Tho Doke of
Buccleuch, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Carlisle,
Mr. Whately, Q C., and other influential gentlemen, bees
bora brined into • committee for the purpose of taking
gip M perpetuate by some lasting memorial the rernem-
WOW of this lamented gentleman's public and private
virtues. It is intended at once to found one or more 'choler-
ships or eshibitions, bearing Mr. Talbot's name, fur boys
odosatoti at the Charterhousr, in the Unieendries of (k-
-ing mad Cambridge, antitheft will constitute the proposed
Memeekl.