The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-06 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DrRING THE WEEK.

The official report says:—The number of deaths
registered in the metropolitan districts in the week that
ended last Saturday was 1,103. The advance which it
shows on previous returns arises trom coroners' cases,
many of which were not duly registered till the end of the
quarter, though the deaths occurred and the inquests were
held at dates antecedent to last week.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1643.52 the
ge number of deaths was 922, which, it raised in pro-
' portion to increase of populatilll during these years and up
Ito the present time, becomes 1,014. Tue actual mortality
of last week, therefore, exhibits an excess, en the estimated
amount, of 89.
Fatal cues arising from symatie or epidemic diseases are
at present, as regards the whole class, fewer than usual,
the total number being 203, while the corrected ge is
244. looping-cough, which numbers 47, is the most fatal
smongt the diseases incigent to children ; its average is 33.
To small-pox, from which London has lately been compa-
ratively free, only 3 deaths are referred ; to measles 22, to
scarlatina 31, to croup 5, to diarrlana 28, to dysentery G,
scurvy one, to ague 2, to infantile remittent lever 4, to
typhus, &e , 38, to rheumatic fever one, to erysipelas 7, to
syphilis
week
uiis4.
the births of 8.36 bays and 85.5 girls, in al;
1,711 children, were registered in London. The average
number in eight corresponding weeks of the years 184.5-52
was 1,338.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.578 in. The reading
of the barometer decreased from 29.58 in. at the beginning
of the week to 29.50 in. by 9h. p.m. on the 26th ; remained
at this reading nearly till 9h. p.m. on the 27th ; increased
to 29.56 in. by 911. cm• on the 28th; decreased to 29.49 in.
by 9h. p.m. en the same day ; increased to 29.64 in. by 911.
p.m. on the 29th ; decreased to 29.56 in. by 31t. p.m. on the
30th ; and increased to 30.02 in. by the end of the week.
The mean temperature of the week was 59.1 deg., which is
2.4 deg. lower than the average of corresponding weeks in
38 years. The mean daily temperature was below the
average on every day of the week, except Tuesday, when it
was 2.4 deg. above it.

CAPTURE OF A BANK THIEF.—About six week.
ago, several cases of theft of money from bank counters
took place. In one instance the sum of 941!. was suddenly
lost by a person transacting basiness at the Commercial
Bank in Edinburgh, and, in :mother, 4.7i0/. were atolen
from the table of the Western Hank Dere—the thief having
in both cues distracted the attention of the parties in pas
session of the money, by some inquiry leading them to turn
round, and, snatching up the notes, elfzetcd his exit before
I the loss was discovered. The description of the supposed
thief in both instances agreed, and a swell mobsman,
named M'lliarmid, originally a Scotch pickpocket, but
more recently of metropolitan experience, having been
traced in Edinburgh, and eluting the description, suspicion
fell on him. Alter being watched for about ten days,
M'Diarmid was on Friday captured in Etlinbur.th, on fits
return from Newcastle races, by John Fallon, one of the
most experienced detectives of the ci'y police. Ho has
been identified by one of the tellers at the Commercial
Bank, and by the poems who lost the notes there, as the
party who alone, they believe, could hove abstracted them,
and be will ho immediately sent here. with the view of
(wither identification.—Sorti, British 31111.
HONESTY Itrwaniern.—On Monday, an insolvent found'
in the court of Mrl Commissioner where he was
heard, a pocket•hook, containing notes to upwards of PAL
He communicated the fact to an officer of w•hitecross-street
Prison, and it was placed in safe custody. The property
has been owned, and 51. was left for the insolvent, as a
reward for his honesty.