The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-07 00:00:00

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.

It appears from the return issued by authority
of the Registrar-General that in the week that ended on
Saturday, November 3, the births registered is London end
twelvo other large towns of the United Kingdom
were 4,501 ; the deaths registered 3,253. The annual rate
of mortality was 2S per 1,0110 persona living. In London
the births of 1,135 boys and 1,141 girls, in all 2,276 chil-
dren, were registered in the week. lu the corresponding
weeks of ten years, 1850-65, the average number, corrected
for increase of population, was 2,0*. The deaths regis-
tered in London during the week were 1,432. 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, 1,31 G. The actual return exhibits an excess
of 116 over the estimated return. Bronchitis and pnau-
monla have been unusually fatal. Seventy-three
deaths from cholera, 28 from diarrhira, 101 from
both fora■ of disease, were registered. The
deaths from cholera and diarrha•a in the last six
weeks were 241, 251, 254, 144, mud 101. Of the 73
deaths from cholera, no lees than 28 oecurred in the two
sub districts of Woolwich dockyard and PlumsteaiL The
bad hygienic condition of the people i• discussed in papers
by Dr. Finch, Mr. Biwa. and Mr. Graiit, the assistant-
engineer of the metropolitan board. The disinfection of
houses in which deaths by cholera have been registered is
still proceeding, and if the operation ia perforated with
skill, care, and efficieccy the decline of the epidemic will
go on at a still mere rapid pace. Professors of chemistry
sometimes fail in their comparatively simple experiments ;
how much m• re likely is disinfection to fail in the hands
of ignorant people. It thionl,l he performed I.y officers
properly instructed tinder medical supervision. Inefficient
disinfection is a delusion and a snare. The me.lical health
• officers of Bristol, Pirker.head, Liverpool, and Leeds have
given an account of the hygienic measures adopted; it is
gratifying to add in these erases with signal success.
The annual rate of niortality lest week was 24 per 1,000
in London, 36 in Edinburgh. and 38 in Dublin ; 21 in
Bristol, 2) in Birmingham, 37 in Liverpool, 38 in Man-
chester, 26 in Salford, :to in Sheffield, 31 in Leeds, 20 in
Hull, 36 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 28in Glasgow.

CHOLERA AND DIARRINE.4 RETURNS.

DEATHS REGISTERED ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY, NOVEMBER
4 AND 5.

Population estimated
to middle
of I too' Cholera. Diarzhcea.
West districts
North districts 1;56,021
Central districts ... Xi 9.219
Haat diatriett 4;97,1'1fi fl 1
South districts

Total in London ... r.,037,991 19
General ltegiater-ufdz,:, Somerset-house. Nov. G.

BLOWING CP A CHITECH.--An act, which has
created some excitement in the district was committed at
Wa'gingham, Norfolk. on Muriday. It apirears that in the
evening the parish clerk, according to custom, went to
the church and rang the eight o'clock or curfew bell. He
had left the church about ten minutes when the whole
town was shaken by a violent explosion, and it was disco-
vers,' after a short interval that some miscreant had forced
the door of the church leading to the chancel, and had, by
a deposit of gunpowder beneath the organ, completely
shattered not only the instrument but also the beautiful
windows of the .thaneel. The powder hail apparently been
fired by a fuze, after lighting which the fellow decamped.
The damage sustained by the organ alone is estimated at
200/., and the injury inflicted on the windows cannot be
repaired from an antiquarian point of view. The church
was restored at a cost of more than 1,700/. in 11462.
THE ELOPEMENT OF A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER
WITH HER FATHER'S Gnnaft.—ln Monday's impression we
briefly reported an elopement • f a young lady with her
father's groom from the neighbourhood of Faringdon, in
Berkshire, and from the particulars which have now
reached us it appears that the lady was the only daughter
of the Rev. R. Rice, who for some years past has been
rector of Eaton Hastings, and the groom was a young
fellow named Ralph, and had been in Mr. Rice's service as
room. On Monday week Mr. Rice accused his daughter
28 years of age) of being erreintc, and she admitted the
act, her paramour being Ralph. An altercation arose
between the rector and Ralph, and the latter conducted
himself is such a violent manner that Mr. Rice deemed it
necessary to communicate with Mr. Johnson, the superin-
tendent of the Berke constabulary for the Faringdon divi-
sian. In the afternoon police constable Shave was
despatched to the rectory, and after some conversation
with Mr. Rice, they proceeded upstairs to the bedroom
of the young lady, but found her door locked. The
door was thereupon hunt open, and the rector and the
police officer then male the discovery that M is Rice had
left the premises, and that Ralph was not to be found.
Inquiries were at once net on font, and it was ascertained
that Miss Rice walked from Eaton Hastings, sauntered
leisurely through the town of Faringdon, where she was
well known, and continued her course as far as Stanford-
place, where she was overtaken by Ralph, who had also
gone to Faringdon, and having engaged a carriage at the
railway station, instructed the driver to take him as far as
Stanford-place. From this point the pair were driven to
the Didcot Junction of the Great Western Railway, where
they took tickets for Reading, and their route beyond that
town has not been ascertained, but steps will in all proba-
bility be taken to discover her whereabouts. Ralph is 22
years of age. •
LOCAL BILLS TOE NEXT SESSION.—By the end
of the present month all plans connected with local bills
must be deposited, and the general opinion Is that there
will he very little private bill legislation next overran. Last
year there were upwards of 600 local bills, and 363 local
acts were passed. It is not expected that there will be
one-third of the number next session.
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