The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

The official report rtys : The deaths in London,
had declined to 1..14 is the previous week, rose
ace II in the week that tided Wt Sattrthor to 1,321. lei
the t. n co. responding weeks of tte years 1843-52 the aver-
age tiurutar of deaths was 1,181, which, wth a correction
tor increase of population, gives a mortality for last week
of 1,252. The actual attacker of deaths neutered last week
then :fore exceeds the estimated amount by 30.
In comp: ring the resues ot the Saes two weeks in ref
reuse to fatal iliseas.s th. re appears a considerable csi-
fermi's', except in plithisi., the mortality of saheb rose
front 131 to 111, and pneunidaia, which declined from 101
to his. Bronchitis nutubstod in the two weeks respectively
174 and 171 deaths, which is uouble the overate at this
period of 11. t year, hooparg-cough 70 and CS, typhus 56
I.'.e mortality :r. is. scarlatina continued the same,
an• d
iimuuuted in each week 60 37. The sea of au oilman,
aged 1 =tooth*, died at 13.1, Ilitil.-atheet, Kent-road, or. 2 lit
cf cholera Asigliaa :4 days)."
In the nub-district of St. J:mnes.-Cierktr.well, an errand-
boy, ared 18 years, 'lied on the 13th March of "typhus,
diarrhoea." Mr. Tahaeli, the medical arendant of this
case, has addressed the following letter to Mr. Western, the
regis:rar " I deem it my Catty to eel: your attention to a
• of fever terminating in death +hien has occurred at
16, Albert-place, Red Lion-yard, Bed Lion-street, in your
district. 1 must state that 1 Lave under my care a young
brother of the decemetl, who has had a severe attack
of malignant scarlet fever, and was molting
.a
/00.1 recovery, but fur :If hot day or IMO has
been in n precarious state. Although daily visit-
ing •he house, it was salt' eight hours before
death took: piste that 1 was requested to Csit the deceased,
Wil:iiant L adbitter, whom I found moribund in the last
stage a f thus &var. The pint to which it is desirable at-
tetanus should be directed a the condition of the premises.
They arc filthy in the eatreme, and to aggravate matters
the family is not addicted to over cleanly habits. 1 have
heard t'..' inhabitant. of tic yard com;.ia.n loudly of the
aos,uss alluvia emitted from the drains running (as I un-
derst.sad; underneath the doors of the houses. The pri-
vies of tat of theca communicate : at least in the cue of
the I. ..1610 above alluded to the Lightish of its neighbour
was a source of annoyance. The noose, No. 13, is a two-
roomed one, and in the upper room the family slept,
talcs r, mother, and .6 children, • in all, tall its munber was
saluted to h by the death of the son referred to. The
sleeping capacity of the room is cerainly only one third, if I
indeed so much, of the requisite aceostraodation. The roof
freely admits the rain ; the few square feet of surface city°.
ilte the tvoisei may be said to be nothing better than an
embryo dunghill. and a collar in an adjoining house appears
to be seed as • dustbin. since writing the above I have
learnt that the whole of tne family haa been affected more
or less with throat symptoms."
At the workhouse, Saint George-in-the-East, the wife
of a real-whipper, aged 30 years, died of typhus. Mr.
\Correll, the registrar, adds :—" According to the: state-
ment of the medical attendant, the daughter of deceased
died last week of fever; 3 children were removed last week
from the haute (19 Bayniond-place) to the Fever Hospital,
and 3 ether children living upstairs are now suffering 11.0111
fever. The house is a very o.d one, end the room which
the deceased and her family inhabited was very small, low
roofed, and leading into a o'rty sloppy yard, the surface of
watch I. ocassiderably higher titan the room."
At S, Omen-street, Bedtord-row, Holborn, on 19th
Mares, the on of an optician, aged one year, died of " dy-
sentery (14 days), coevails,ons (one hoar)." Mr. Good-
hugh, the registrar, adds:—" According to the informa-
tion of the mother, certified by the medical attendant, the
death of th.. child is entirely owing to the effluvium arising
from the drain and common sewer, and which at times
beyond endurance."
Twelve deaths were regiA. red in the week that occurred
in the Loudon Fever 11»pital, Ishagton, three of which
took place on the 17th March, two on the 19th, one on the
21at, one on the 22nd, one on the 23rd, two on the 24th,
one on the 25th, and one on the 26th; three were caused
by Keelson', one by messes, and the remaining eight by
typhus. Mr. Watts, the registrar, writes as follows:
: l'he medical officers remark that typhus, or spotted
fever, is becoming more prevalent, and caws of this de-
scription are coming in daily from all parts of the metropo-
lis. There are now more patients in the new heepital than
the old building could have accommodated, but there is
ample room and every requisite(excepting funds) for the
treatment of double the nunther on an emergency. It is
only necessary that the public respond to the appeal made
to it. At the Small-pus Hospital, Upper Holloway, only
one death has occurred during the whole quarter."
On 22ual &larch, at 27, Skinner-street, Bishopsgate, the
widow of a navigator, aged ZiS years, died of epileptic fit,
suddenly, without medical attendant. Mr. Bpeacer, the
registrar, states that "she was in great destitution, and not
a vestige of furniture, bed, or anything in the scum. The
deceased was lying on the floor covered with an old rug ;
the room is on the ground, walls and ceiling were quite
.damp, and the house uufit, when I saw it, for human habi-
tattoo."
In the sub-district of Haggerstone West, at 8, Savannah-
place, on 10th March, the wife of a shoemaker, aged 87
years, died of " dimmed liver (3 years)." Mr. Doering,
the registrar, says:—" This corpse has been kept 18 days in
a sma:l two-roomed house. How many inmates there are 1
have not been able to ascertain."

In the sub-district of Hackney-road, at 14, Minerva-
street, on 24th March, the daughter of a smith, aged 7 years,
died of " scarlatina (7 days), putrid sore throat." Mr.
Murray, the registrar, remarks that "this is the second
death within tea days in the same family from scarlatina,
and the mother and two other children are ia gnat danger
from the same disease. There arc apparently no special
tireumetances to account for this fatality."
In the south sub-district of St. Giles, at 2, Wild-passage,
ma 22nd and 23rd March, the two sous of a costermonger,
aged 4 hours and 8 hours, died of " sonvolsions; not need-
led.. Mr. Faulkner, the registrar, observes .—" The
deaths are much more numerous than usual in my district
this week, owing, I believe, to the unusually severe
weather. I have registered the deaths of three infants from
convulsions, none of which are certified by medical men.
The mother of the two that died at 2, Will Is in
great poverty, having (as my informant says) scarcely the
means of baying fuel to keep themselves warm. May not
this account for the deaths of the children ?"
. In the sub-district of Pentonville, at 20, White Lion-
street, on 21st March, the daughter of a watch-smith, aged
4 years, died of " pertusais weeke), pneumonia, effusion
into pleura (4 weeks)." Mr. Upjohn says : Six children
have now died from hooping-cough in this house within
sin weeks."

TWOperso ns died of carbuncle ; a pilot, aged 55 years,
m 20th March, on board the Dreadnought hospital ship,
and the wife of a victualler, aged 39 rears, on 18th March,
in Poplar, " carbuncle, extensive ulceration of posterior
Grosvenor
of pharynx and right tonsil." At 34, George-street,
moire, on 20th March, a dairyman's assistant,
aged 22 pears, died of " conantion of the lungs, brain,
&c., fern exposure to intense colt on the morning of the
[Bth, hiving been previously indisposed, for which he had
taken Lino aperient medicine." The widow of a sailor
died at 12, Bermondsey.square, on 20th March, from bron-
chitis, at the advanced age of 102 plan. On
20th March, at 56, Baldwin's-gardens, Holborn, the
endow of a shoemaker, aged 60 years, died of "
ex-
haustion fesm want of sufficient nourishment." (Post Mon.
Inquest.) At the workhouse, Lambeth, on 20th March, a
waiter, aged 61 year., from Swan-yard, died of " apo- '
ploxy from want of sufficient nutrition, owing to his neg
lect in applysrg for parochial relief." (Inquest.) Two of
the following cases occurred in January and one in Febru-
ary. in the rectory subdistrict, Marylebone : a boy, aged 7
nanntha, at 6, Orchard-pace, " exhaustion from want on
food, and the effects of a poisonous atmosphere; " a boy,
aged 9 weeLs, at 20, York-court, " congestion of blood of
the brain, roused by improper food ; " and a, widow, aged
GI years, "suffocation during epilepsy from overloaded
stomach." . _ _

Last week the birth, of 752 boys and 728 girls, in all
1,480 children, were registered in London. In the eight
eorreepondinf weeks of the yeas 1845-52 the average num-
ber was 1,650.
At the Royal Obeervatory, Greenwich, the moan height
of the barometer in the week was 29.762 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 33.3 deg., or 9 deg. below the
average of the same week in 38 years. The media tempera-
ture was about 9 deg. below the average on four days of the
week, and on Wednesday, Thursday, sad Friday, the de-
pression was more than 10 degrees. The mean dew point
temperature was 26 6 deg. The wind blew generally from
the north-east.

STRENGTH or BAD HABlTS.—Professor Miller ad-
verting, at • meeting at Edinburgh a few days ago, to the
strength which a bad habit sometimes acquires, narrated
the following story, for which the learned professo: must
alone be considered responsible respectable clergyman
had long failed in ma attempt tosive up snuff4sking. and
at last he preached a sermon against it, but was iMieratile
all the week after. When Sunday came rotted, hi found
he was getoing on very languidly, and to make the thing
worse, an hanest oleo of an elder, sitting immediately
under the eye of the minister, tauk out his " mull," tapped
it on the lid. and with the utmost gravity took a com-
fortable " aneribin.- The minister could stand this no
loager—lse stopped abruptly in his sermon, and said,
" John, for shame upon you, sir, how dare you do that 1"
The elder looked up in amazement. The preacher con-
tinued, " Don't you remember what I said to you last
Sabbath ?" but the elder could not yet fathom what lie had
done to cause offence. The minister's passion for muff had
la the interim grown to such an intensity that it was a caul
of life or death, he could restrain uo longer, aad so, ad-
dressing the elder, he said, " I wi,, not pollute my lips by
mentioning what you did, but I will show you what it was ;
hand me up that box.- Having got the hoz, he gave it •
certain number of tar on the lid, and went through the
other forms of souff-taking in imitation of what he ob-
*reed the elder do. saying as be went on, "That G what
you did, sir—and wont is more, jou (taking a pinch) did
that too."

CLannanwect.—More than usual Easter excite-
ment prevailed in this parish in consequence of the nominee
'ion of a candidate far the MEET of vestry•clerk. Two
estatiiished inhabitants have laid ciainis to the suffrages of
their fellow-parishioners, Messrs. March and
and the friends of both parties were early up sad doing.
/Le walls are placarded with bills rrl dive to the merits
and claims at each candidate, one in particular threatening
to espies all unfair means of obtaining votes, as well as
lUrnWhiali the necessary information to those inhabit vita
entitled to exercise their right of voting. The election
takes plats to-day.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Persons are at Win-
chester Cathedral talus' casts for the new Crystal Palace
et as ancient font, the torah of WL:ians of Wykeham, aa
Wm tams, and the carving of a choir stall.