The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

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It appears from the weokly return issued by
authority of the Registrar-General that in the week
that ended on Saturday, Deo. 21, 4,317 birth,, and
3,31 d deaths were registered in London and in twelve
other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual
rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. The
annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,01.00
in Loudon, 29 in Edinburgh, and 29 in Dublin 33 in
Bristol, ;',O in Birmingham, 33 in Liverpool, 35 in Man-
chester, ell in Salford, 23 in Sheffield, 2:1 in Lewis, 31
in Hull, 22 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow.
The rate in Vienna was 26 per 1,110) during the week
ending the 14th inst., when the mean temperature was
101 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in Lon-
don, where the rate was 29. In London the births
of 1,136 boys and 1,025 girls, in all 2,161
children, were registered in the week. In the cor-
responding weeks of ten years 1357-66 the average
number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,613.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,561. It was the fifty-first week of the year ; and the
average number of deaths for that week is, with a correc-
tion for increase of population, 1,467. The deaths in the
present return exceed the estimated number by 74.
Seven hundred and seventy-eight persons died under 20
years of age, 172 were 20 and under 40, 240 were 49 and
under 60, 302 were 60 and under SO, and 69 were 80 years
of age and upwards. Zymotio diseases in the aggregate
destroyed the lives of 301 persons, 241 of whom were
under 20 yearn of age. Whooping-cough wee the most
fatal disease in the zymotlo class, and caused the deaths of
56 children ; 9of tin e cases occurred in the west, 13 in the
north, a in the central, 12 in the east, and 14 in the south
distrims. Fifty-five deaths occurred from iuemles : It in
the west, 7 in the north, 9 in the central, 12 in the east,
and 11 in the south districts. Forty-eight deaths oocarmd
from scarlatina : Gin the west, 19 in the north, 3 in the
central, 3 in the east, and 17 in the ninth districts.
nicety-we deaths from small-pox, 4 from diphtheria, 44
Iron. typhus, and 14 from diarrhea% were registered last
week. k rem diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of
phthisis) 409 persona died ; of this number bronchitis car-
ried off 244 persons, pneumonia 111, and asthma 14.
One hundred and fifty-nine persons died last week front
phthisis, 67 from diseases of the heart, and 169 from dis-
eases of the brain and nervons system. Seven children noel
one adult died Irons injuries caused by burns or scalds ; one
of these cases was that of a boy, aged 3 years, from
" burns of body and limbs when playing with lighted
paper." No deaths from carriage accidents in the streets
were registered in the week. One hundred and sixty-four
deaths from injuries caused by horsey or vehicles in the
streets have been recorded during the ',twang year. Ten
persons were killed by horses, 3 by carriages, 7 by multi.
buries 17 by esbe, 32 by vans or waggons, 5 by drays, 43 by
carts, mid 47 by vehicles not described.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 210-615 in. The barome-
trical reading increased from 29-35 in. on Wednesday,
16th December, to 29.69 in, on Friday, 20th December.
The moan temperature of the air in the week was
41 0 deg., which is L 6 deg. above the average of
the Mlle week in s') years (as determined by
Mr. Glaieher.i The highest day temperature was 531
deg. on Sunday, 15th December. The lowest night tempe-
rature was 2411ileg. on Friday, 20th December. The en-
tire range of temperature in the week was, therefore,
29'3 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the
water of the Themes was 37., deg. ; that of the lowest
was 31.9 deg. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 2'5 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 91, complete satu-
ration being represented by 100. On Sunday, Lich De-
cember, the humidity was as great as N. Rain feU to the
amount of 0.50 in., 0-21.1 in. of which was measured on Sun-
day, 15th December. The direction of the wind was
variable. According to a return furnished by the engineer
of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily
quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames at the
outhern Outfall Works Crossness, was )6,172,369 gal-
' lons or 300,651 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many
tons by weight.
A legal certificate of any birth, death, or marriage regis-
tered in England or Wales since let July 1637, may be ob-
tained at the Gemmel Register-office, Somerset-house.

WEATHER DEPORT.-(TEILS DAY.)

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