The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-10 00:00:00

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137,371 births were registered in the quarter railing
March 3lt, 04.31. This is a greater number of births than
was ever registered in any previous quarter ; and the in-
t' IVA.: is distributed over all the divisions of the country,
although it was greatest inCheshire, Lancashire, and York-
shire. In a few counties the births exhibit au increase ; in
the majority the increase is considerable.

INCILEA4E OF I•OI'L'I.ATION.

As 147,374 births and 1.0.1,116 deaths were registered in
the quarter ending March 31st, WI, an excess is left
01.11,928 living. It is the natural increase of the population
in three 1.11011t114. And as all the deaths arc registered
while all the births are not registered, the difference is
less than the actual increase. The variations in the in-
crease of population from fluctuations in the births and
deaths since 1817 have been considerable; the cocas of
births over death. was 19,701 in the wader quarter ending
March 1818, and 31,928 in the corr,pouding quarter of
18.51.

'lns emigration in the rptartar ending 'March 31, 1811,
from the ports of the United Kingdom a: which there are
gm eminent entig at i ~,, officers, 46,072. The emigrants
front English pints antonuteil to 48,929; namely, 1,51.1 front
Plymouth, -Law from London, and 42,912 front Liverpool.
2,339 entigr.ints sailed front Ghogow unil Greenock; I,SOI
trout Irish ports. It is well known that many Irish emi-
grants sail from Li% erpoul.

STATE a' THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
105,116 deaths were registered in the quarter ending
March 31st. This number is leas by nearly 15,000 than
was rigistered in the cornsponding quarters of 1517 and
1818; and more by 7,1881 than was registered in the March
quarter of 1530. faking the increase of population into
account, the mortality wan slightly below the average. It
was at the rate of 2.365 per cent. far annum ; whereas the
average rate of the quarter is 2.137 per cent. The highest
rate of mortality experienced in any winter quarter since
1539 was 2.831) in the cold winter quarter of 1517 ; the
lowest was 2.114 in the mild winter quarter of 1516. A
previous table shows that the average • al rite of mor-
tality in winter is 2: per cent. nearly (2.137) ; the mortality
being above this range in town, and below it in country
districts. The mortality in the March quarter was
what lower than the average in the 117 districts including
the thief towns ; and considerably below the average in
the 306 remaining country districts. The mortality
of the towns war a fiftieth part, and of the country districts
a twelfth part less than the average. The country districts
are therefore enjoying more thou their usual immunity,
white the mortality in the town districts is scarcely reduced
at all; yet it was in the town districts that cholera was most
fatal, wad according to a common theory cut tiff the weakly
lives in 1819. The returns show that little impression has
yet been made on the mortality of towns, which have prac-
tically liven left unimprused. The drains, sl`WerS, slaugh-
terhouses, and churchyanle are much the same as they
were, and their effect. tlwrofore are the same.
The mortality Wits higher in !London than it was in the
corresponding quarter of last year. Influenza war epidemic,
and the mortality was ruined during the weeks of March.
201 deaths were directly ascribed to this diseatie which in
ordinary 1N.,01011, is not fatal to more than 10; and many of
the 1,612 deaths, ascribed to brunt:hid, were the result of
influenza. The epidemic has ceased, and has been slight
compared with that of 1817-8. Measles and hooping-cough
have been more, scarlatina less, than usually fatal. Small-
pox was Natal iu 273 cases, in the greater port of which vac-
cination had been neglecter!. Diarrheca was fatal to 2'23
'mams, dysentery to 30, cholera to 7. It is worthy of note
that the winter diarrhtca shows no disposition to decline.
The deaths referred to cholera in the five quarter. ending
IMarth 1517,51, were. 3,9, 511 i, 8, and 7. Typhus has been
more fatal than it was in the March quarter of 1830. The
deaths by poison were 29, burns and scalds 100, hanging
and suffocation 71, drowning 70, fractures and contusions
163,. wounds 31.

The mortality was low in the South Eastern, South Mid-
land, Eastern, and South Western divisions. Typhus
raised the mortality ut Maidstone, scarlatina and houping-
cough at Brighton, where the mortality was much above
the average. The mortality was generally low in the Sur-
rey and Sussex districts. l'ortstutnith and Southamptou
were unhealthy ; at Southampton scarlatina prevailed.
Measles and hooping-cough raised thy mortality in Abing-
don : measles and typhus in Wallingford. The mortality
of %Viudsor, which has recently been drained, was much be-
low the average ; the deaths us the rive quarters ending
March, 1817-a, were 132, 100, 114, 103, and 86.
In the South .Miuland counties, Brentfurd, Edmonton,
Ware, St. Albans, Aylesbury, and Oxford were the chief
districts in which the mortality was higher than usual.
Small-pox prevailed at St. Albans among the poor " who
live in great numbers in ill-ventilated houses. Measles,
hooping.eough and typhus prevailed iu Waddesdon,
Aylesbury, in Winslow, and in Witney ; measles and hoop-
ing-eough in Oxford. In Huntingdon low and intermittent
fever prevailed. Seven deaths in the parish of Kings
!Lipton were ascribed to typhus; three-fourths of the Asupu.•
!alum suffered from it. the want of drainage, an bad
sanitary arrangements, are supposed to have produced the
disease. In the sub-district of Wisheach St. Etter the
births registered were 81, the deaths 107. 51 deaths took
place in the union workhouse; 16 from measles, 18 from
typhus, and 17 from other causes. 'lbis great mortality in
a public institution requires investigation.
In the eastern division the mortality was high at Sud-
bury, Colchester, Yarmouth, and King's Lynn, where
measles and scarlatina prevailed. At Stow, 67 births were
registered; the registrar observes, that 20 still and prima-
-1 lure births occurred during the quarter. Still births are
not registered.
Plymouth, remarkable fur its insalubrity, is almost the
only district of the South Western Division in which the
mortality is hi pier than in any previous winter quarter.
Scarlatina, typhus, and hoping-cough have continued to
prevail. At Morice in Stoke Damerel the oldest inhabitant
of the town is said to have died in her 103rd year. Such
instances of longevity should never be admitted without
scrupulous inquiry ; they are rarely supported by valid evi-
dence. Scarlatina raised the mortality in Taunton, Chard,
and Wellington, Somersetshire.
The mortality has been high in many districts of the
West Midland Division.

bcarlauna, measles, small-pox, typhus, hooping-cough,
and bronchi (influenza i), have been prevalent and have
often terminated fatally. The mortality was low in Here-
fordshire, and the southern part of Shropshire. Vaccina-
tion is neglected in Shrewsbury, and several deaths from
small-pox have in consequence occurred. Wolverhampton,
West Bromwich, Birmingham, Aston, and Coventry expe-
rienced a considerable mortality. The deaths in Birming-
ham were 1,2.52.
In the North Midland Division the mortality was low in
Lincoln, although scarlatina and typhus prevailed there;
it was higher than it was in the previous winter in Leicester,
Nottingham, Derby, and Chesterfield; measles and hooping-
cough prevailed in many parts of those counties.
The people of Stockport (in Cheshire, North Western divi-
sion)have their children vaccinated with a most laudable regu-
larity, and the result has been an almost complete immunity
from small pos. In the same sounty the people of Run-