The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-06 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON IN 1866

(Free♦ the Regietres-Geserare Report)

It tie population of London him increased taupe the
iosasos of 1861 at the mama rate at which it increased daring
the tea yeah that preceded it, namely 1.97 per oast em-
sully, the author of iskshinsts at the begianing of 1866
woe about 20540,000. This population was infused by
84,944 chUdrea bora is thiamine of the year, sad was di-
✓anished by 61,606 perms removed by death. If the se-
anti version disturbed by immigrants and entignats,who
ere seer ia motion, the gala to the population would be
23,438.
The births immodest oily by 260 those registered la 1864.
The inseam Is very smell. This is arkspethe effect of tho
high primes( hod: sad of war, which removes married
sea from their homes to amp, gateau sad ISCIIIIIF•
meats, to man the beets, Si.. workmen to furnish the
mighty equipunts nom sad land.
The davit, were lam by more than 12,000 than in 1864,
the year et tf • snare epidemic. Bat the morality of
1165 onapared with that of ease ye in unvisited by soy
Man evident's, wee not low, the very laid weather of the
whiter maths (lemony, February, sod March) haying
swelled the weekly Auras to unusual proportions. la soma
weeks, at that time, the deaths exceeded, in t then they
fell not much abort of 1,600 ; whi!st in cis weeks the mesa
weekly temperature was below freezing part la the
ayes* weak of the jeer the mita aspirators was only
26 4 digs., and in the week following the deaths rose to
1,604.
The mortality in 1866 was at the rate of '24 deaths to 1,000
pencee living. le the rise pi ars 1847 65 the pro; ortioa
varied from 21 to 30 is a thousand. But different parts of
Ueda osjoy, or suffer from, variousdegrees of salubrity
or irsalaberty : a fast which is sees, though not to Its fall
extent, by taking the eve groat divisions in which its 36
disiriess are classed. Last year the rate of mortality varied
from 23 la 1,000 la the waters sad northern dairies', to
26 is 1,000 la the eastern dirWee. It is worthy e f codes
that the asters division Is subject to a rather higher mor-
tality than the southern (which lies south cf the river),
except In cholera years, ohs. the epidemic taking advan-
tage of a lower level, cause the mortality to ries halter os
the south side. The years 1850 and 1861, in whiet the
mortality was at oily the same is th- tso division', tarnish
tie only instances within the nine yens which cam be ad-
dend wan the operatic,e e f this role.
la 1866 ph. Weis destroyed 7,646 persons, nearly the eighth
put of the whole anther who died in Lana is the year.
About the sane sonar died from this dines* is the diet
quirts, se la the mead; and about the same in the third
as is the faith; while the pen onion of deaths in the drat
half of the yea to theme la the sand half was al 21 to 16.
Next to erase of mortal ty was boo• child, whish carried of
5,612 anon, aid wee naafi, as I sal is the first three
mouths as it was Is all the rest of the year. Pneumonia
use Gala 3,992 en s, and dissliaed from 1,669 is winter to
492 la samba. Both these dim asse was very fatal, for
mon titan others they grow or clic ty as the air is colds/ or
warms, mad the man temperature of the with,' was nearly
6 dig. below the avenge of 14 previous victors. The re-
mainder of the year was aloo cold, with the easel tioa of
summer, which was rather warmer than oast.
Of epidemics saarlatin was the most fatal, and 'timbered
2,602 muses; looping-oragh, 2,416; typhus, 2.332;
diorama. 2,061 ; smallpox, 1,024; measles, 864. Fifty-
ain deaths teas esazatia• were recorded an the sub-lis-
t:in of K.Kewsgtas-town ' • 48 is the nut-lisoriot of Tama-
ham-irouit- ;56 in flomer•tows ;42 in Keane-tows;
126 la Islington ; 106 in Woolwich; 29 in Pinmwead ; and
to many other parts the disease extended its r.veges. 42
deaths from smallpox occurred in Wool ; 167 in the
West sult.listrzt of Islington, which con it.as the 8ma1:-
pa Hospital.
P. r every 6 person, sr rsthi r more, who died is London.
tie died la a workhouse, banal, or ether public iostitc-
don. Of the 11,310 who the closed their not in their
owa homey, 6,662 died is workhouses 466 in llamado asy
hams, 71 is prisons, the rest in hospitals for the sick, the in
firm, or for the aged soldiers ad sailers who t ad leaved the
stets