The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

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The deaths in London were 27,109, and exceeded the
births (17,224) by 9.885. fhe deaths by disesees of the
symotie claw were 17,763; by other diseases, 9,287. The
cansee of 59 deaths were unspeilified ; only 78 derhe from
small pox and 274 from measles were registered, 428 from
pooping-cough, 386 from scarlatina. Tbe epidemic of
scarlatina, of which 1,560 pets me died in the summer
quarter of 1848, thus suddenly subsided. Of typhus 710
persons died. The deaths from influessa were 9. Although
inflation sad cholera often succeed each other alternately,
tatir co-existence as epidemics appears have been
witnessed. A disease in which the patient is restless,
entsleas, convulsed, and death-stricken the moment he
&Maks from the sight of water, was formerly of common
emarreace in London. No death from that cause has beam
reaorded is the last fine summers. Yet hydrophobia is
inevitably fatal, and medicine is of no more avail when its
symptoms are revealed that it is in cholera ; but the wile
courts of removing its cau,es has been tried, and bide fair
to create a permanent blank in the London nosology. The
cause of typhus, of influenza, of cholera, and of the like
diseases, will not long, we may hope, remain in undisturbed
possession of the earth and air of this city. Hydrophobia
disappears when the dogs which are liable to become mad or
to be bitten every summer are removed by police regulations,
so will the other symotic diseases rive way when that
putrid, &may ing, noisome atmosphere exhaled by church-
yards, slaughter houses, the tanks of dirty water companies,
cesspool., sewers, crowded dwellings, is purified and dissi-
pated. Tao sewers and cesspools now under our houses
will inflict more pains and destroy more living than ten
thousand mad dogs 1. t loam lathe streets. They may as cer-
tainly be removed; std yet it is to be feared that many years
will Mapes before anything effectual is done, or any such
satisfactory result can be recorded es the extinction of another
disease in this great city. A mortality from cholera slightly
above the average was observed in July and August, 1848 ;
but the deaths from this came were less numerous than in
1846, and in September did not exceed 7 weekly. In the
weeks of October and November the deaths ran up, and 13,
30, 45, 34, 65, 62 deaths were registered. The new epidemic
chancier was manifest ; but the mortality declined to 30 and
20, fluctuated from 94 to 37 through an. and Feb., and
finally fell to 4 in the lea week of March, to 1 &no 2 weekly,
in April and May. The deaths from cholera in the Let
weeks of May and June were 1,6, 9, 22, 42, 49, 124. The
water of the Thames roam to the temperature of 60 deg. at
the end of May; and the weekly des, ha in July and August
were 152, 339, 678, 783, 926, 823, 1,230,1,272, 1,663 ; in the
first week of September, 2,026 deaths from cholera were
registered ; and the epidemic then rapidly subsiding the
deaths fell to 1,682, 839, 434 in the last three weeks of the
month. The temperature of the Thames fell below 60 deg.
in September 16-22. The deaths from all causes were 3,183,
or about three times the average number, in the first week
of September ; and 27,109, or double the average in the 13
weeks of the quarter. T A mortality from cholera varied in
different distracts of the metropolis from 8 to 239 in 10,000;
and was greatest in the low, the worst drained, the poorest
districts; the districts supplied with water from the Thames
between Waterloo-lwidp end Batteries New Town. We
shall give the returns from the different local districts on
another macula&

HEALTH OP LONDON DIMINO THIS WEIL—The
mortality of London (says the Registrar• General la his re- I
port) which fell below the weekly average of five autumns I
in the second week of October, has steadily continued to I
decline during the three subsequent weeks. The present
return shows that only 837 deaths were registered in the •
week ending last Saturday, while the average is 1,182 (al-
lowaace being made for increase of population en preview
years); the decrees is, therefore, 326. A commies. et
returns made for the suns week in the last 10 yearn, &ewe
that in any of the nine weeks the mortality has act bola so
slow as at the present time. In the corresponding week et
1841 the deaths were 840; in that of 1848 they were 1,115,
after cholera had given warning of its Only 11
deaths from cholera were registered in week. In the
three preceding weeks they wee eneemaively 110, 41. and
25, deerning hy nearly a powasszisal pepssioa. Of the
11, one occurred in L)wsr N Chelsea; two in the
workhouse of St. Martin•in-the-Plehis ems having been that
of a girl brought from a house in Ilealerdbary, ass audition
of which is minutely described by the registrar); one in
Claremont-place, Gray's-inn-has ; one in George-yard,
Saffron-hill; two at No. 12, Seven Step alley, Gravel-
lane; one in the Lunatic Asylum, Holton-house; one in
Maidstone-place, "a very low and ill-drained spt in Hag-
garottes Eon"; one at 4 Paternoster-row, Spitalbids, where
the mother of' the deceased died five days afterwards M
" diarrbon." sad one is Wycombe plane, Keitirend. La
the last wish 40 deaths were regatered from diarrhea cad
dysentery (the average is 27); in the these previous weeks
**Twos 105, 63, and 51. Tao of these, In the present rotate,
weaned in Jennings•-buildings, Kensington a locality
which has frequently obtained anfavourable notice in the
records of the late epidemic. Typhus was fatal to 37 per-
sons ; the average is 58. Other epidemics are still under
the average. The mortality from smallpox and meats con-
tinues unusually low. A woman of 67 years died of " in-
flammation from a plum:tons lodging, 33 days before death,
in the colon, and producing thickening, and complete ob-
streaky." In two cases intemperance is stated to have
been the cause of death. The mean reading of the
barometer at Greenwich was upwards of 30 in. on the first
three days of the week. The mean of the week was
29 807. The mean temperature of the week was 60.3 deg.
which is 4 deg. above the averege of the same week in 7
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ON BOARD TRII VICTORIA EMIGRANT SNIP.
—This vend, whist' it will be recollected was chased by
. her Mesmer Fire Q teen some di tones along the
, en impulsion being entertained by the police that
I the 1011141111 IMMO peresagers on board, met with a serious
oesidaat In her pun* to New York. Oa the 17th of October
, she was discovered us fire, and but for the prompt exertions
. of the crew sad pamengen she mast have speedily been in
r flames. The cease of the accident is not mentioned in the
repwts d. The vessel was a London packet ship, and
with sup was fatly Wand.