The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

The tffi=il.l report @aye :—ln the week ending last
Saturday th • deaths registered in the metro?olitan districts
amounted to 1,1 9. Taking ten eorrrspoadiag weeks,
letelelY, the first in each of the last ten years (1841-60). it
will be r Asa that the gusset return shows a greater number
titan it any year except 1815, when the deaths rose to 1.417 k
and 1' w
when they were 1,510, during • week of low tem
Pere cure (the mean reading of the thermometer having
sea reedy exceeded 29 degrees). Is 1848 the deaths of the
otk smoun'ed to 1,364, when the mortality was aggro-
' rated by influence, which had not diaappeared, but was
i rapidly on the decline. The avet age of the ten weeks was
1,167, which, if e.rrected for increase of population, be-
comes 1,2'3. The symotic or epidemic class of fataldiseues,
which in the present return numbers 239 eases, exhibits
little difference %ten comp-red with the previous week;
but the class comp • • g effecticns of the respiratory organs,
shows • considerable advance, the deaths therein 011110:111-
reed having risen from 264 to 321, a result probably due
to unreasonable warmth and moisture of the weather. It
will be observed, with a mean daily temperature which has
b... n throughout the week much higher than hi usual at
this season, having ranged from 5 to 14 dunes above the
average, that whereas bronchitis, pneumonia, and phthires
(or consumption) were fatal in 120, 90, and 124 eau re
sputively in the previous week, they have now risen to
152, 101, sad 147. Diseases of the organs of respiration,
exia.ssive of harping cough and pkthisis, were fatal in the
tgregate, last week, to 721 persona whilst the corrected
average is only 257.
Amongst epidemics, small pox carried ofi 21 children, and
4 men who had turned 20 years of sgs ; measles, 29 child-
ren; scarlatina, 14; !looping cough, 58; and croup, 9.
Typhus destroyed 48 persons of various ages (rather more
than the average); inficet ha, 6; erysipelas, 14 ; dierrbcc
19. A sass of cholera, described as Asiatic, is reee.rded, of
which the particulars are given as follow On tne 30th Doe.,
at Mils-end Workhouse, a chemist, aged G 6 years, " Cho:era
Asiatic (24 hours)." lie cure from Shsdrell to the Work
house, of which he had beet, an inmate three years; he was
d a paralytic, and was suddenly seirkil with cholera on in-
ay.
laut the sum of mortality, entered in the li.gister books last
week is, as before, considerably ewelleu by more than the fair
conta.gent of cases on which inquests have been held, many
at umber dates, and a great majority of which fall under the
several descriptions of poison, improper medicine, burns and
scalds, hanging and sielfotation, drowning, fractures, canto-
dons, and other injury. B.x permits died from poison, sizing
whom was an infant, on the 26th, to which the nurse had
given Dover'. powder (conndning opium) by mistake, the me-
dicine having been intended for the mother. Of 27 persons who
met death from burns or scalds, 21 were children, and in Id
eases the accident occurred from the clothes taking fire.
Siztesn deaths recurred from drowning, and 48 from frac-
tures, woundP, &:., of which 16 were by falls on the
streets, or from windows, Italia, and scaffolds; 3 by falls
on board ship, 10 by horses and carriages, 4 by machinery.
A man was suffocated on a lime kiln: and 3 children in
the bedclothein lime children died from want of breast
milk ; a man from privation, besides a child of 7 months
" from disease of the head an 1 scanty su,ply of food."
rwo men wen the victims of intemperance, besides two who
received fatal injury when is a rate of intoxication.
The births of 828 boys ud 763 Ode, in all 1,69'2 children,
were registered in the week. The average number in cor-
responding weeks of 6 years (1815.50) was 1,469.
At the Royal 0 lomat( ry, Greenwich, the MU reading
of the barometer was above 30 in. on Sunday ; the mean of
the week was 29'751 in. The mean doily temperature fluc-
tuated between 44 deg. and 52 deg.; and on each day o' the
week it was considerably higher than the ge of the
rune day is ten years, on Sunday the excess being 5 deg. '6,
on Mond .1 8 deg. '9, on Tuesday 11 deg. '6, on Weinceday
13 deg. *9 on Thursday 12 deg. .1, on I,riday 7 deg. •1, and
n Saturday 6 duet. fee MOSS of the week was 47 deg..).
The wind wee generally in the south west.