The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

PT %Tit I•Y /11Y. IIEALTIII.

The bealtb of different parts of the country differs widely,
and the difference it greatest in summer. In the 10
stoutnet quarters of 1811-50 the mortality in 306 districts,
comprising, when the csnsus was taken, 10,1.6,800;
people, was at the rate of 18.15 in 1,000 annually ;
whil.. in 117 districts, comprising the chief towns, and
7,795,8,41 people. the mortality was at the rate of 2i in
1,000 annually. Thus, at least, 7in every Side:Atm which
occur in towns are the result of artificial causes. The mor-
tality in the quarter coiling September, ISA, was at the
rate of 2:1 and 17.93 in 1,000 in the two groups of districts ;
it was a little below the aser.ge in the country, anti consi-
der 114 below the avenme in the towns. The annual rst:
of mortality pc- cent. in all England was, on the average of 10
suotture., *2 089; in the summer quarter of 1851 it R312'020.
l'opulation ; and Mortality per Cont. in the Summer

Quarters of II

184141

isiala I.
lOW quarter&

L 117 d 4062166 0:609ri. 16.612,146 7,791,632
lag the 9961 towns .. I
Is 3. 6.14111946 66691.F1.
ins $ bit fly sin 41 towns,, 9,29:,199116,126,666
sad cosintry wishes._
All Embled V1.914.143 17.922.766

4.12,737 46,061

440,407 ! aksss

1491,14 • 91.400

Way of RI tam. er
1116aters, 141 IS.

lit% in tla• summer
quarter I m.:#l.

In I t 7 di.trkis, esaps*•ias
the chief tonne I
Is %s 6 Jr e=
n'.
ebtrfir noon to
country psel-bes

131,

AU Rs load

Louden his enjoyed a degree of health above the average
is the last 1111111111ef quarter ; 13,061 deaths were registered,
which is a his number than was registered in the summer
quarters of 1617 and 1848, and half the number (27,172)
registered in the summer quarter of 1819, when cholera
was epidemic.. During the three months of July, August,
and September, more people have pawed through or re-
sided temporarily in London, with its 2,361,610 inhabitants,
than ever pawed through any city before in the same time.
The past eaperienee of lame armies, or of the pilgrimages
of the east and of the middle ages might have justified
the sinister forebodings which some entertained; but the
railways and the improvement in sanitary arrangements
base now rendered it possible to move the masses of men
about in thousands and millions without danger to the
public health, as the event has here proved. The deaths by
Tiniest*, though less than in previous summers, were 363-
10 by poison, ri by burns and scalds, 43 by hanging or suf.
fotation, 89 by drowning, 156 by fractures and contusions,
21 by wounds, and 9 by other violence.
The number of suicides and murders registered in Lon-
don was leas in 18.51 than in the summer quarters of 1847,
1818, mid 18.50.

184". 1848. 1849. 1810. 1831.
Suicides

Murders
3 4 4
Maissisughten

74 68 53 62 56
Found drowacd .... 35 42 38 35 31

Total
The deaths by poison in the summer quarters of 1818-50,
were 15, 20, 26 ; and instead of increasing, they were only
10 in the summer of 1851. This decrease is highly gratify-
ing, as it follows so immediately the recent legislation on
the subject. Fractures and contusions were more fatal than
in 1849-50, but not more fatal than in 1848. That other
form of poisoning, intemperance in the use of alcoholic
drinks, seems also to be declining; 18 deaths were ascribed
to intemperance, 55 to delirium tremens, in the summer
quarter of 1850; while 13 and 35 were refer ed to
the sum mans in the summer quarter of 1851.
Ito lama bat &ad of hydrophobia in any am.
air quartaa daft 16163. The deaths bola that