The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

Jew 7, i Marti 31,
1141. I ism.

mist in the 6 years 1846-51 were 3 ; in the 6 years 1840.5
they amountisl to II; in the year 1839 to 4 ; in I s'eS to 12.
T decree,. of this Leendful Corm of disease may be fairly
'red to improved police regulations. 31 women died of
decrease
a ,00
63 of the other ineideuts of childbirth. le3 pier-
died of consumption ; next to this theism in fatality,
awit far above all title.r disease., was di:usher I, .hash de-
stroyed 1,436 lives in 3 months. Summer cholera .as more
, fatal than it was in the summer quarters of 1817-8; and
more than twice as fatal as it was in the summer of 1860.
There has been a progressive increase of diarrhoea since the
summer of 1811, when only 228 lemons died of the disease ; '
627 deaths were referred to typhus, 38 to remittent fever.
Typhus was inereasiag at the close of the quarter.
Ihe South Eastern division has been lees healthy Dan It,
was last year. The mortality was above the average in ter'
Medway district (including (b:schemer), the Isle of Thanet
(including Margate, Harnspte, and Broadstairs), Dover,
Brighton, Worthing, Newport in the Isle of Wight,
Hungerford, and Abingdon. Diu:here was prevalent, as
well as typhus and scarlatina, in several of the districts.
Three cases of cholera were fatal at Newport, Isle of Wight.
The South Midland division was generally healthy. The
mortality was much below the average in the counties of
Hertford, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Bucking-
ham, and Cambridge. In Oxfordshire the mortality was
above the average in the districts of Theme, Ileadington,
and Oxford. In Oxford 19 persons died of scarlatina, 16 of
diarrhoea, and 3of typhus. The health of Cambridge has,
on the contrary, been unusually good. The deaths were
only 103 in the quarter ' • wherena the deaths in the cone-
epontling quarters of 1817-50 were 135, 137, 133, and 151.
Ihe Regi-trar of St. Andrew-the-Oreat, Cambridge, states
that " very great improvements have been made in the
sanitary arrangement of the town." There was a small
local outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Leighton Buzzard.
" Three deaths from cholera occurred as follows: At Lona-
lade, a woman aged 51 years, ' cholera, 24 hours.' She had
best front home some time. and had recently returneal
from Manchester. At Leighton Boman!, a woman aged
43 years, ' cholera (6 hours) and apoplexy.' The cottages
where this case occurred arc below the public road; the
hatl premises confined, and drainage had. At Bellington,
a woman aged 17 years,' cholera, 64) hours.' Drainage bed;
the situation adjoining a farm-yard. It was stated by in-
fotenant that the carcase of a calf was lying in a barn near
the hots, in a putrid state."
In the Eastern division the mortality was below the aver-
age in Essex and Suff ilk, above the average in Norfolk.
Diarrhoea prevailed at Leyton, in West plan, Wickforel,
and Rayleigh; in Rtchford, fever of the remitting and
typhoid type prevails. Ipswich suffered from diarrhoea.
...Lowestoft Irons scarlatina and English cholera. Diarrhoea
was fatal in Norwich and Yarmouth; scarlatina in Yar-
mouth, Fkgg, Walsiegliani, and Docking ; hooping-cough
in Downharn.
The South Western division, with the excsption of Corn-
wall,
was healthier than usual. In Amesbury and Sails-'
Wry the mortality was high. Scarlatina was prevalent in
Marl), 'rough, Wilts; typhus in Wareham' where, in the
opinion of medical won, it was aggravated by bad drain-
age. Scarlatina and diarrhoea prevailed in Plymouth
and Stoke Dainarel. Scarlatina was the chief cause of the
high mortality in Cornwall. Small lot has also been
there. Dysentery is now prevailing in St. lees. In
the l'eliZilliCS subdistrict the deaths exceeded the births
registered ; and sanitary measures are so grossly neglected
by the inhabitants that 37 of their children have died of
small-pct, which is still prevailing. In Bath diarrlicea was
prevalent "in ....dined dirty localities, where there writ:
bed alluvia from IIUISASICCS."
In the West Midland division the public health was as
good as usual in tilouccaterthire, Herefordshire, and Sheep .
shire. One death from cholera occurred in St. Mary Red-
cliff., Bristol, and one in St. John the Baptist, Gloucester;
a low f. vcr and scarlatina were fatal in Stroud ; dysentery
prevailed in Allorighton, Shiffnal; and it is stated that the
population is decreasing in Shiffnal "from emigration and
want of tannin) went in the agricultural districts." Small-
pa has nearly disappeared frost Shrewsbury ; one person
died of cholera in harden where diarrhoea prevailed, as it
did also in bloom, Darlaston, and Dudley. The deaths
in Birmingham ware 1,237 ; diarrhoea was rite, end several
eases
of cholera were registered. The high rate of mortality
in this well placed town proves how much wise and timely
sanitary measures are neglected, CoveLtry is in a still
won. condition; the mortality is higher.
In the North Midland olivi-ut the mortality was high in I
Non mrhanisliire ; Isiceetershire, Lineolnshire, and Derby-
shire enjoyed an average degree of health. In the towns of '
Lea:ester and Derby, however, as well as in Nottingham,
the mortality was above the average. Diarrhoea mud
cholera prevailed in Nottingham and Chesterfield.
'l'll,, North Western Livisiun constantly suffers more from
death than the other divisions of England ; the mortality of
the summer has been kits than usual. In Manchester the
decrease of deaths is considerable. Diarrhoea prevailed iu
many districts. The registrars mention 7 eases of cholera
in Liverpool, 2 iu Torteth Park, 2 in Wigan, 7 in War-
rington, anti 3in Little Bolton. In Itulme, Cliotltun, 411 I
children ands adults died without medical assistance. The
registrar of Market-street, Manchester, says : " The im-
proved health, and, it may he added, temper of the people
of the district may ustiurially lie item-died to the chymous.,
of pruviei iiii to, which are not only abundant but also of
better quality, because the temptation to adulterate food is
not an great.
The population is quitting Wile iu Burnley, in search of
employment ; tllOl increasing iu Blackburn in consequence
of tint erection end enlargement of cotton molls. The Re-
gistrar of Poulton-le-I.4We says; " The harvest has proved
very goal, and the labouring classes have been fully em-
plojed, which, together with the inestimable blessing of
cheap food, I presume has been the cause of the healthi-
ness of my distract."
The Registrar of Se dbergh says: " The deaths have, for
upwards of two years, Into much below the Leverage of
turner years. I ant at a loss to amount for it otherwise than
that the labouring population hate in general ben better
employed than in former years, and with the low priee of
peovielons that class has been able to procure all the neva-
swim of life."
la Yorkshire the mortality has been slightly above the
swift, of ordinary summon. Diarrhoea and summer
eleskra prevailed with scarlatina, and in SOlllO parts m-
ikes:a. The mortality was higher than is usual in Hud-
dersfield, Leeds, sheffield, and York. A few canes a
ahnlera, said to be Asiatic, occurred in Sheffield, and diar-
AMA was raccedingly prevalent. The guardians, acting
with praiseworthy promptness, supplied the poor with my-
stical aid and medicines, which diminished the mortality.
The mortality in the Northern division was above the
av, rage. Ditirfillnli prevailed in several districts; Karla-
dna, small pox, measles, and dysentery are referred to;
sad the registrar of Sedgefield locutions one ease of cholera.
Typhus prevails in Beweastle, High Longtown, and bas
Men fatal to two parsons.
The mortality has been above the average in Merthyr
Tydfil and remit/eke ; but Wales and Monmouthshire
gent rally have been healthy. The registrar of Llantrisaint,
Canter, remarks, .. It is a most singular circumstance that
OM 1.060 death happened within this dietect between the
14th of August last and the 11th of September, a space of
27 day,, though the population is nearly 11,000. No move-
ment of the populatiou has taken place, and no sanitary
arrangements hive been effected."

THE TINDAL STATUE AT CHELMSFORD.—After
weeks of procrastination and expectation delayed, this tine
statue is at length erected in the square of Chelmsford,
has lug been on Thursday fixed on its pedestal. The name
of Lard Chief Justice Tindal, perhaps, needed no such
work tor its preserve:ion; it will live and be honoured is
our legal annuls while profound knowledge, unswerving up-
rightness, mid the pure and merciful administration of
justice arc respmted iu the law; but Chelmsford may be
pardoned the tasteful egotism of thus proclaiming to the
I world that he who won his way by the right hand of his
own genius to so exalted • station, and adorned that station
when he reached it, was born and bred, and educated in its
midst. thus holding out a healthful stimulus and example
to others, and showing that while efforts are being
made to renovate sad revive the fame of other
educational iuotitutions in the moat'', its own Gram-
mar School has not been altogether barren of rich fruit.
The statue. which is east in bronze, rests upon a massive
pedestal of stone, well designed to show off its fair propor-
tions. The laird Chief Justice is represented in a sitting
posture, as if upon the judgment seat, the head slightly
bowed, being expreraive of the deep thought which cha-
racterised the original when solemnly poising the scales of
justice upon some abstruse point on which the life of a
fellow-creature or the success of a great cause hung. One
hand rests upon a book, the other is slightly advanced,
giving at once grace and expression; while the arrangement
of the drapery confers a massiveness of outline and •
breadth which well adapt the figure for the situation in
which it is placed. The statue itself is 5 feet high, and
with the pedestal, rises 14 feet G inches from the level of the
pure, forming a striking object to traveller through the
town, and having an imposing effect when viewed
from the front of the Shire-hall or from Duke-
street. The learned judge is appropriately placed so looking
towards the courts of justice, and the front of the pedestal
bears the following inscription from the pen of Mr. Justice
Talfourd "The Hight honourable Sir Nicolas Conyng-
ham Tindal, Knight, D.C.L., Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas, born at Chelmsford, A.D., 1776,
died A.D. 1846. Erected •.D. 1851, to preserve fur all time
the image of a judge, whose administration of English
law, directed by serene wisdom, animated by puiest lure of
justice, endeared by unwearied kindness, and graced by the
most lucid style, will be held by his country in undying re-
membrance.' There is still, we believe, about tiOr. re-
quired to meet the contingent expenses ; but we cannot per-
mit ourselves to doubt that the feeling of pride awakened
in the town, and the mute appeal of this admirable work of
art to the taste of the public, will speedily provide the
funds to liquidate this demand.—CAelessford Chivalric.
LAMENTABLE CASE OF DROWNING,—On Saturday
night last, about 9 o'clock, a distressing ease of drowning
took place in the Surrey Canal, near Buck bridge, Peck-
ham. About the hour above named Mr. W. R. Blackstiv,
of Smyran-grove, Peckham, who had been for many yeah
engaged as traveller to the well-known house of john
Keay, Sons, and Co., importers of wines and spirits, 64,
Mark-lane, City. while on his way home, walked into the
Surrey Canal, which at that place is in a dangerous and
unprotected state. The unfortunate gentleman called out
lustily for assistance, and was beard by Mr. George ?fun-
day, a baker in the Cobourg-road, who gave an instant
alarm. The drags were procured without delay, and the
body taken on shore in about eight minutes. It was con-
veyed to the Surrey Canal Tavern close by, and Mr.
Leonard, a surgeon in Surrey-place, Old Kent-road, was
promptly in attendance. Every means that medical skill
could suggest was resorted to to restore animation, but
without effect—the vital spark had fled. The body of the
dowered remains at the Canal Tavern to await the eon-
neee inquest.