The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-06 00:00:00

THE HEALTH 01P LONDON.

It appears from the return issued by authority
of the Registrar General, that in the week that ended on
Saturday, November 2nd, 4,416 births and 2,777 deaths
were registered in Lon,lou and in twelve other large towns
of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality
wee 23 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mor-
tality last week was 20 per 1,000 in London, 20 in Edin-
burgh, and 24 in Dublin ; 27 in Bristol, 22 in Birming-
ham, 29 in Liverpool, 35 in Manchester, 27 in Salford,
24 in Sheffield, 23 in Leeds, 25 in Hull, 30 in New-
castle.upon-Tyne, and 24 in Glasgow. The rate in
Vienna was 22 per 1,000 during the week ending the
26th ult., when the mean temperature was 1.3 deg.
Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London,
where ,the rate was 21. The high rate of mortality in
Manchester is due principally to the registration daring
the week of nearly 50 deaths on the information of the
coroner, the inquests relating to which bad been held
during many past weeks. Scarlatina was, however, fatally
prevalent in many parts of the city, and in Ardwick and
Mutate townships alone caused no leas than 19 deaths. In
London the birth@ of 1,041 boys and 1,054 girls, in all
2,093 children, were registered in the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years 1657-G6 the average
number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,106.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,196. It was the forty-fourth week of the year ;
and the average number of deaths for that week is,
with a correction for increase of population, 1,367.
The deaths in the present return are less by 171
than the estimated number. The deaths registered
front zymotic diseases a ere 242. Scarlatina caused the
deaths of 54 children, and in the preceding week 36 fatal
caries were recorded. The disease is most prevalent in the
north and south districts of the metropolis. Twelve deaths
from small-pox, 32 from measles, 30 from whooping cough,
51 from typhus, and 23 from diarrhoea were registered last
week. No deaths occurred from cholera or choleraic
diarrbo-a. 143 poisons ‘lied from phthi si ss 127 from bron-
chitis, 80 from pneumonia, and 45 from diseases of the
heart. The deaths of 14:3 persons killed by hones or car-
Hagen in the streets of London have been already
registered in the 44 weeks of this year. It may be hoped
that the numbers will be diminished in the future by the
new Act, " making provision for the greater security of
persons passing through the streets of London." it light
on each street cab will tend to diminish the danger by
night.

THE SANITARY CONDITION OP THE CITY.—At
the meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers, hell at the
Guildhall yesterday, it appeared from the report of Dr.
Letheby, the medical officer of health, that in the week
ending November 5 there bad been condemned 3,016 lbs.
of meat as unfit for human food. It consisted of 18
sheep, 50 pigs, 1 calf, 6 quarters of beef, and 2 joints of
meat. 1,155 lbs. of it were diseased, 1,301 lbs. were
putrid, and 560 lbs. were from animals that had died from
accident or disease. On the 29th ult., Vincent White, a
butcher, residing at Preston Bisaett, Bucks, was
summoned by Inspector Wylde, before Mr. Alder-
man Hale, at the Guildhall justice room, for sending 8
quarters of diseased meat to Newgate-market, and was
sentenced to one month's imprieonm-nt. During the week
there were registered in the City 45 births and 40 deaths.
These are in the proportion of 24 births and 18.1 deaths
per 1,000 of the population ; and the mortality returns
are much below the average (48) for the corresponding
period of the last ten I earß. Fifteen of the deaths were
of children of less than five years of age, and only three
among persons at 60 and upwards. Eleven deaths were
from tubercular climates, four from inflammatory affections
.40 the lungs, and nine from diseases of a zymotic character,
bestdes two from infantile diarrhma.

The policeman Saunders, who was shot in North
Crescent Mews, on Smutty morning, the 20th ult., is now
bat programing towards mammy.