The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-26 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

The return imened by the Registrar General states
that the deaths in London which bad fallen since the sod
of January again exhibited an increase in the week that
ended last Saturday, when they were 1,411 The mean tarn-
peratureof the air was 45.4 dogs. last week, but in the
week that preceded it the mean had fallen as low .a 36.2
deamea
The average number of deaths for the oorrespoodieg
weeks in ten years 1652-61, corrected for Morelia) of popu-
lation, is 1,436. Though the rate of mortality that pre-
vailed last week was high, as compared with that which
rules in many parts of England, it was not high relatively
to that which the London registers have sometimes dis-
closedat this period of the year.
Scarlatina now appears to be on the decline ; it was fatal
last week in tiO cases, diphtheria in 13. Whooping•cough
sus fatal is exactly the same amount as scarlatina ; but
typhus was returned in 72 cases. Five deaths from scads-
tins were monied in the east sub-district of Islington ; 6 in
Deptford. Of those 6, 2 occurred in Welbagunr,rrk.

Deptford, besides 1 from diphtheria. Typtina was fatal Is 5
geese in Hoaton New Town, all of them in the workbotoe
of St. Luke. Six children died from whooping-cough in the
sub-district of Belgrave.
A note, aged 67 years, died of " patritis, after an Moose
of 24 hours, from eating largely of cold boiled salt beef."
A mon died at the advanced age of 95 years, a woman at 97.
I.;niochitis appear@ NA a cause of death, in the retorts of
the week, more frequently than any other disease. It tree
fatal to 163 persons ; phthisis to 155 ; pneumonia to 73.
The corrected averages for these three complaints are re-
spectively 18d.171). and 97.
Last week the births of 973 bore and 992 girl., le all
1,965 children, were registered in 'Loudon. In the tea cor-
responding weeks 41 the years 1952-61 the average number
(corrected) was 1,994.

THE ALLEM) 4311I1TAN01111 OF TB/ L 1321311-
CAURISIM.—Lest night (Tuesday) • well attended -
nary meeting of the letter carriers and other oyis
the lost olSos was held in the School-room, Cowper-street,
City-road, for the pose of taking steps to hold a larger
meeting at Exeter-hail, in order to submit to the whole of
the men a full statement se to the position in which they
were played, in consequence of the reply given to Sir G.
Dowyer by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is rela-
tion ,to the report of the commissioners appointed to
inquire into their mire. Mr. Graves, a lettoroarrier,
presided, he having been called upon to do so by show
of hands. Mr. Tilley, the secretary to the committee,
in a long best teniperste speech set forth the inequalities
and injustice of the present system of claseitication, and tie
deceptive nature of the so-called remedied measures adopted
up to the present time. The scale of wage* issued in Tun,
he contended fell far short of the just requirements of
the men, while then. did not appear to be any hope of an
iucreass therein, or of a satisfactory arrangement being
entered into either by the officers of the department or the
Treasury. He would move, therefore, to the effect,
that it is the opinion of this meeting that nothing
short of a porhoneutary inquiry would remedy the
evil, mud that the meeting agree to support the open-
nate., iu ,irryiog the issue into effect. Mr. liewkin
seeouule,l the motion, which was carried unanimously acid
cheering. After the paring of a motion pledging the
meetim; P. obtain Exeter-ball, if possible, for a much larger
maembly, till men, who had been meet decorous in their
deportnieet throughout, quietly separated.
A WIALTHY BOA :AL—The SLOpHey parochial
authorities bare advertised for the heirs of a travelling
beggar, mused John thenhani, supposed to have belonged
originally to Newcattle-omTyne, who died lately in a
lodging-house in High-street, Stepney, and was buried at
the exposers of the parish. The parochial officers foiled in
the pocket of the meat which bad been worn by the deceased
a wares leather pocket-book, containing six bank deposit
receipts for sums ammitting in the whole to 700'.
CITOTAL PeLmlfi. ()Yu SHILLINO DAT.
TOIEDAT, TM 75.—Admissions on payment, 581; ditto
by sasses tickets, 446—total, 997.

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