The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1867

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The registrar-general's weekly return .ssys :
In the week that ended on Saturday, September 7, 4,279
births, and 3,001 deaths, were registered in London and in
twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 25 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 22 per 1,000
in London, 20 in Edinburgh, and 26 in Dublin ; 23 in
Bristol, 32 in Birmingham, 31 in Liverpool, 38 in Man-
chester, 29 in Salford, 28 in Sheffield, 30 in Leeds, 37 in
Hull, 27 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 23 in Glasgow.
The rate in Vienna was 25 per 1,000 during the week end-
ing the 31mt nit., whenthe mean temperature was 9.5 degs.
Fahrenheit higher than in the same week'in London, where
the rate was 22. Of the 2,582 deaths returned last week
in the ten large English towns, including London, 507,
or 20 per cent, were referred to diarrhoea. Of the
annual death-rates per 1,000 from all causes in
the week, the mortality from diarrhoea was 2 in
Bristol, 3 in London 5 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 6 in
Liverpool, 7 in Sheffielk Bin Manchester and Salford, 11
in Hall, and, again highest, 12 in Birmingham. In Lon-
don the births of 1,064 bogs and 974 girls, in all 2,038
children, were registered in the week. In the correspond-
ing weeks of ten years 1857-66 the average number, cor-
rected for increase of population, is 1,954. The deaths
registered in London during the week were 1,283. It was
the thirty-sixth week of the year ; and the average num-
ber of deaths for that week is, with a correction for in-
crease of population 1,272. The deaths in the present
return slightly exceed the estimated number.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 28.7641 in. The baro-
metrical reading decreased from 29.97 in. on Monday, 2nd
September, to 29.60 in. on Friday, 6th September. The
mean temperature of the air in thee week was 63.2 deg.,
which is 4.9 dep. above the airstrip of the same week in
50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).

THE "JAILORS' DISPUTE IN SCOTLAND.—triAI
look-out of the operative tailors of Edinburgh place
on Monday. Fifty of the masters, employing nearly 800
men, have agreed to pay according to the present time
statement. Eighteen masters, however, locked out 180
operatives because they would not agree to work under
the proposed new and reduced tariff. Each man will re-
oeive upwards of 12s. a week from the amalgamated fond
during the continuance of the lock-out. The operatives
have already commenced working on the cooperative
principle, both money and material being supplied by the
National Executive. A meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Master Tailors' Association of Scotland was
held in the afternoon, Mr. Millen in the chair. The secre-
tary read the correspondence he had received from Ayr-
shire, Greenock, Perth, Dundee, and other towns * Foe-
&rehire and Fifeshire, and which showed the resolutions
these places bad adopted to introduce the time statement
that had been prepared and sanctioned by the association.
It was stated that a large majority of the firms connected
with the association in Edinburgh had laid the docu-
ment before their workmen, and urged it on their scoop-
*nos with arguments to show that, while the time
allowed for the various jobs was more nearly in
accordance with the true time than that given by the
existing log, the wages offered would in many cases be
greater than those at present paid. Notwithstanding
these reasonings, the men generally had, they say, struck
work, and the shops were now empty. A conversation
took place as to the beet mode of getting • supply of
labour, and a sub-committee was appointed to arrange for
the formation of • register of workmen willing to work
either in shops, or in their own homes, as well as • re-
gister for female workers.
Tan RABBIT SHOOTING QUTSTION.-A case affect-
ing this question was last week decided in the Justice of
Peace Court, Dunse. A tenant upon an estate in the
neighbourhood of Donee had employed two men to shoot
and trap all the rabbits they could fall in with upon his
farms, instructing them to avoid everything like inter-
ference in any way with the game on the grounds, and
restricting the men also from destroying rabbits in the
plantations, dm The proprietor cited the men to appear
before the court for carrying firearms, and questioned the
right of the tenant, either by himself or by any in his em-
ploy, to destroy the rabbits. The court held that the
tenant had the perfect right either to kill rabbits himself,
or to depute men to do so, unless specially interdicted by
the loam. As there was no each stipulation in the lease,
the case was summarily dismissed.
NAVIGATION OP THE THAMES...-A member of the
Royal Thames Yacht Club is prompted by the recent fatal
collision on the river to "bring under the notice of the
authorities the dangers arising from the screw steamers in
general on the Thames. Although they are or ought to
be, governed by stringent rules both as to speed and navi-
gation, these are almost invariably totally dismarded.
At one time a screw vessel will be going et a fearful rate to
save a tide, then two may be seen racing against each
other, and frequently they will be found deviating from
the comae which ought to be kept up and down the several
reaches, and all this with impunity, for there seems to be
no proper official cognisance taken of any infraction of the
regulations laid down for their guidance and the protection
of other vessels."