The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-12 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, December Ath, the births registered in
London and twelve other large towns of the United
Kingdom were 4,018 ; the deaths registered 3,330. The
annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of :Kt boys and 087 girls, in all
1.970 children, were registered in the week. In the cor-
responding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average num-
ber, corrected for increase of population, was 2,001. The
deaths registered in London during the week were 1,584.
It was the forty-ninth week of the year ; and the average
number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,523. The deaths in the present
return exceed the estimated number by 59. The ex-
cess is amply accounted for by bronchitis, a disease
of cold weather. Only one death from cholera
was registered in the seven days ; it was the death
of a labourer's child, aged 2i years, at 37, Church-street,
Poplar. The deaths from cholera in the last five weeks
have been 67, 32, 8, 3. and 1. The supplement gives de-
finitively the deaths by cholera in each district to every
10,000 inhabitants, and the results may be thus briefly
summed up :—ln St. George Hanover-square 2 in 10,000
• died of cholera, Chelsea 4, Westminster 6, Marylebone 3,
Kensington 4, all on the north side of the Thames, and
supplied with water by the Grand Junction, the Chelsea,
and the West Middlesex Companies. The following dis-
tricts on the south side of the river were supplied by the
Southwark and by the Lambeth Companies, and the deaths
by cholera to 10,000 inhabitants were in Newington 3, St.
George, Southwark 7, Wandsworth 5, Camberwell 6,
• Rotherhithe 9, Lambeth 7, St. Olave 9, Bermondsey 6,
St. Saviour 7.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 27 per
1,000 in London, 29 in Edinburgh, and 29 in Dublin ; 26 in
Bristol, 25 in Birmingham, 31 in Liverpool, 29 in Blanches-
ter, 27 in Salford, 29 in Sheffield, :11; in Leeds, 30 in Hull,
33 in Newcastle.upon-Tyne, and 32 in Glasgow. The rate
in Vienna was 27 per 1,000 during the week ending the 24th
ult., when the temperature was 3"2 deg. Fahrenheit lower
than in the same week in London, where the rate was 24
1,000.

The Delhi and London Bank beg to return thanks
for the following subscriptions revived and remitted to
Calcutta on account of the Indian Famine Relief Fund :
Mr. John Denby Filcher, Si. 51. ; E. H. A. 8., Rahn,
21. ; Anonymous, ss. ; Major A. H. Paterson, 10/. ; Mr.
S. T. Cuthbert, 5/. ; Miss A. Carter, 15s. ; A Friend, 1/. ;
Mr. Edmund Lambert, per Coutts and Co., 11. Is. ; Mrs.
Colonel J. E. Wilson, per Grindley and Co., 21. 2.5. ; A
Family, per Miss H., 51.-321. Se.
NINETY-NINE YEasta OLD.—There is now resid-
ing at Whitfield, near Thornbury, an old woman, named
Heater Gough, who is in her 99th year, bale and hearty,
with her faculties wonderfully good, she being able to con-
verse fresh. Recently she has walked, without much
fatigue, with the assistance of a stick, from her cottage to
Tbornbury and back to her home, also to Upper Stone and
back, a distance to each place of more than three mile*.
Lord Dude, Sir G. S. Jenkinson, and other gentlemen of
the neighbourhood have shown the greatest kindness to
the old woman, and therefore we are pleased to say she is
well and for.--CAsismaliass "express.