The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-10 00:00:00

Tho col!owing table shows the numbers and the increase
above tile ..e rage at three different periods of life:

Death% in I Iselitha Im
th. wick ttc week
ti.W. 29. "t'"a4'
I.kc. b.
13 yams L73 383
At I 5 years and under 426 427
At G) pan, and opir.a.l3 277 'O3

IMITAIIO 01 the
weeks corre.
spo,u-tig to I:4t.

fob ye.iro
(11811-49,954.-S
oorrettal 1.4 M-
almo of p39u6,-
tit.n.

Hence it uppears that Lot week toe mew Witty a! young
persons wu 11 per cent., of persmui in middle life 26 per
cent., and of those of advanced age 31 per cent., abode the
average. The increase in the present return above that of
the pn:vieu, week.- hai been dented almost eseluaitcly from
the aged part of the population.
• From an examination of the table of fatal causes it will
be perceived that affections of the respiratory organs greatly
prepoaderatc on the list. The increase of eases enumerated
ela.4 is shown in the nurnbc:.: of the k t live weeks ;
viz., 11$, 163, 256, 298, and 333. These :2.33 ..1.-ath+ of last
week are distnbuted under particular heads in the following
manner: laryngitis 2; bronchitis, 156; pleurisy, 4; pneu-
monia,
_133; asthma,i 30; others of the same class not de-
signated, S. In the corresponding weeks of the previous
three years neither bronchitis nor pneumonia exceeded SS,
and the whole class scarcely numbered more than 200, or
were about 130 leas than in last wee!,

l'hthisis or ennsumption also exhibits an increase, the
numbers during the four weeks in November *aarini beta
125, 123, 135, and IGI, and last week the fatal eases of this
' disereu rove to 180. In the tin weeks corresponding to lost,
of 1611,10, the deaths by plithisis ranged from O'J to 136,
and w hen influenza was epidemic, to 108.
Laq week the mortality attzthuted to di-,eases of the
rpm& is or epidemic class was nearly of the some amount us
in the previous retain, namely, 24a deaths. Small-pox
carried off 21 children and 3 adults; measles, 17 children;
scarla•ina, 13; hopping-cough, 31 ; croup, 6; thrush, 2;
diarrl,,e.a, 26 roses;pe dysentery, 2; cholera, l; influenza,
7 ; pu Tura, 3; ague, 1 ; remittent and infantile fever, 1 •
typhu., 61 ; rheumatic fever, 3; puerperal favor, 5 (bele;
4 utht c cases of women dying after childbtrtli); erysipelas,
7 • and syphilis, 1 child and 2 adults. it appears that fever
has inteeased to a small extent on the preceding week.
Last week the births of 788 boys and 710 girls, in all
1,528 children, were registered. The average of six corre-
sponding weeks in 1845-30 was 1,371.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean dilly
reading of the barometer w,u above 30 in. on every day of
the week ; on Monday, when it was higheA, it was 30•15 i
. in., on Wednesday 30.150 in., and the average of the week
was 30.131 in. The mean temperature was froml to 9
degrees below the average of corresponding days iu 10 years
during the week except en Fridiy anti Saturday, when it
rose 3 and 5 dc,:rees above it. 'the mean temperature of
the week was 35.8 (leg., or about 3 clegrees below the ave-
rage. The wind was in the north-west in the earlier part
of the week, and changed to south-weld or. the last two
days.