The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

Aooording to the weekly report of the Registrar-
Geseral, the rate of mortality is the Metropolis matinees
to &dream, sad is the week that spaded es Saturday the
number of deaths roes to 1,414. Is dm weeks that have
elapsed slam 29th October the amebas have been 1,112,
1,192, 1,162, 1,839, sad 1,414. Cosearnat with these
'weekly samben there bee been as almost constant fall is.
t►e seas temperature, which lies bees as follows:-48.9
deg., 45-7 deg., 38 5 deg., 361 deg., sad 40'0 deg.
la the me weeks corresponding to lest week of the years
1843.62 the average number of deaths was 1,200, which, if
raised i• preportioe to Masses of populatise, becomes 1,330.
The exam is the present return above the calculated
amount is mar 100. _

Lest week 620 children died under 15 years of age, 481
men and worsen between 15 and 60 years, and 306 at 60
years aid upwards. From plithiais (or consumption) there
died 176 persons, from bronchitis 178, from pueumonia (in-
flammation of the leap) 143. Fatal cases of these diseases
have bemuse Matt nunseroue, and the two former exhibit
mortality considerably above the average. Old persons,
and three particularly who are subject te pulmonary com-
plaints, suffer from the coldness of the weather; and the
high prise of fuel at this time readers the poor
less able to contend with it, besides abridging their
means of ebtainiag bread, which is eke dear, as well as
the ether necessaries of life. The cholera is very mush
diminished, sad will probably, as in the previous epidemic,
nearly dimppear for a time. Only twenty-eight deaths
from cholera were registered last week, 'seen of which
occurred in the west district., four in the north, five in the
east, and twelve in the south district,. The total number
of deaths is the Bret fifteen weeks of the epidemic has been
772. In the corresponding period in 1848.9 it was 623.
Last week the births of 840 boys and 837 girl., in all 1,677
children, were registered in Loudon. The average num;
bar in eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52
was 1,426.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.954 in. The mean
temperature was 40 0 deg., which is 11 deg. below the
average of the same ;week in thirty-eight years. The
mean daily temperature was below the average of the same
day en every day of the week except Wednesday, when it
rem 61 deg above it. The mean dew-point temperature
was 38 7 deg. The highest temperature of the air wee
51.9 deg. on Wednesday, and the lowest 29.4 deg. on
Saturday.

A WOMAN Bt ENT TO DEATH AT A DEICE-
KILN.—An isquest was held ow Mraday, at the Manchester
Royal larismary, before Mr. Mefferd, the coroner for that '
city, an the body of a woman named Mary Raley, about 33
years of age. Demand bad no home, and had been in the
habit of sleeping on brick-kilna. One morning, about a
fortnight ago, the daughter of a labourer who works at a I
brick-croft in Caernarvon-street heard a scream, and her
Lather found that deceased had thrown herself into a trench '
of water near one of the kilos. Most of her elotbes were
off and burning on the ground. She was very severely
burnt, and was taken to the workhouse, where she died on
Saturday. She did sot appear to have been in want of
food, but gave no account of herself, except that she was a
married woman and had not slept in a bed for months.
The
„eary returned a verdict to the effect that demand was
. tally burnt aear a brick•kila.