The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-22 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The following is the Registrar-General's return
for the week ending Saturday last the week that
endej. on Saturday, August 18th, the births registered in
London and twelve other large towns of the United King-
dom were 3,968 ; the deaths registered 3,510. The annual
rate of mortality was 30 per 1,000 persons living. In Lon-
don the births of 944 boys and 927 guls,in a 111,871 children,
were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks
of ten years 1856-65 the average number, corrected for
increase of population, well 1,922. The deaths registered in
London during the week were 1,799. It was the thirty-
third week of the year ; and the average number of deaths
for that week is, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, 1,332. The deaths in the present return exceed the
estimated number by 467. The deaths are less by 500 than
the numbers recorded in the previous week. The deaths
by cholera have fallen from 1,053 and 781 in the
two previous weeks to 455. The decrease of deaths
by the two forms of cholera and diarrhoea is
absolutely greatest in childhood, but relatively greatest
in manhood. Thus the deaths under the age of
20 have fallen in the week from 538 to 373, at the
aim of 20-40 from 175 to 121, at 40 and upwards from 332
to 155. Thus this epidemic explosion which has slain in a
few weeks so many people in the east, and has threatened
the whole population of London, is subsiding. It ham
been felt in every district, but its groat ravages have not yet
extended beyond the original limits. The anneal rate of
mortality last week was 31 per 1,000 in London, 24 in
Edinburgh, and 22 in Dublin ; 20 in Bristol, 19 in Bir-
mingham, 56 in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 27 in Salford,
25 in Sheffield, 25 in Leeds, 29 in Hull, 32 in Newcastle-
, upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. In the borough of Liver-
, pool, of the 518 deaths registered during last week, 157
were referred to cholera, and 63 to diarrhoea. The cases
of cholera showed an increase of 31 upon those returned in
the previous week, while diarrhoea had declined 12. The
deaths from cholera in Liverpool during the pest seven
weeks have been respectively 4, 19, 45, 87, 101, 126, and
last week 157. The decrease in the fatality of this dis-
ease, which has been in the last fortnight so rapid in Lon-
don, has not yet commenced in Liverl. Epidemic
cholera does not exist in any of the other larger towns.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.680 in. The barometrical
reading decreased from 29.90 in. at the beginning of the
week to 29.51 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of the
air in the week was 58.0, which is 3.5 deg. below the are-
, rage of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 72.2 deg.
on Saturday. The lowest night temperature was 46.9 deg.
also on Saturday. The entire range of temperature in the
week was therefore 25.3 degrees. The mean of the
highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 61.4
deg.; that of the lowest was 60.4 deg. The difference be-
tween the mean dew point temperature and air tempera-
ture was 7.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 77, complete saturation being represented by 100.
Rain fell to the-amount of 0.62 in. The direction of the
wind was variable. The blue mist was observed daily, but
it was leas dense than in the preceding week.

ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, PORTSMOUTH Au-
own 21.—The August examinations of candidates for
cadetships in the royal navy took place at the Royal Naval
College, Portsmouth, and the result was made known to-
day. The following young gentlemen qualified :—Meears.
L B. Simeon, H. C. A. Baynes, F. C. Malan, H. R. Lees,
C. R. St. R. Shervinton, J. B. Coke, S. G. Nickell, H. '
Chamberlain, R. H. M. Collins, T. C. St. A. St. John, G.
Eastman, W. Corbett, H. P. H. Penwell, G. A. Schwabe,
E. C. Wilson, G. E. Richard*, A. E. Stewart, B. Spencer,
W. B. Fisher, F. G. Taylor, H. B. Anson, A. W. L. Dour
las, F. K R. Fielding, G. T. L Paterson, B. Corbett, L.
L. King Harman, T. T. D. Jefferson, R. S. D. Cumming,
G. H. Drury. J. M. Richardson, H. P. German, C. W.
Swetenham, J. Cuddy, H. S. F. Neblett, C. B. Boileau,
J. O'Hara, A. P. W. Goldsmid, F. G. lil`Einsb-• y, T. A.
Le Knight, H. K Thomann, E. A. White, J. G. Boucher,
B. Palmer, A. C. Middleman., J. D. P. French, P. M.
Scott, J. L Eagles, A. B. C. Forsyth, H. H. Hayes, H. A.
Knox, H. W. Target, N. Parker, F. J. Reid, W. T. War-
ren, J. C. Hibbert, A. E. Edridge, E. R. B. Stephens,
T. W. Woodhead, C. A. F. Waters, K P. Ashe, M. N. B.
Harris, and J. E. Thom.
ROYAL V ICTORIA YACHT CLUB Rgaarra.—The
race for Mr. Broadwood'e prize from Cherbourg to Hyde
took place yesterday. It was open to the yachts of any
roy.J yacht club, and the course was from Cherbourg to
Ryde, entering by the east end of the island. The yachts
started at 7 o'clock in the morning, and the following were
the times of arrival at Hyde : Selene, 273 tons (Mr. D.
It'chardsor 1, •*h. 32m. 15e. ; Fiona, 78 tons (Mr. R.
Boutcher), 4h. 48m. 10s. ; Blue Bell, 164 tons (Mr. F.
Edwards), 4h. 55m. 4a. • Pantomime, 140 tons (Colonel
Markham), 4h. 56m. 401. ; Julia, 122 tons (Mr. G. F.
Moss), 4h. 5&4m. 40s. Thus it will be seen that the Selene,
the Scotch schooner, takes the prize, beating the Fiona,
the winner of the commodore's sup, from Hyde to Cher-
bourg, bynesrly 16 minutes.
THE KED WHITE AND BLUE IN THE THAMES.-
The ship-rigged boat Red White and Blue, of 21 tons,
Captain Hudson, which has made such an extraordinary
pump across the Atlantic from New York, and put into
Margate a few days since, has arrived in the river off
Greenhithe. There were only two persons in the boat,
Captain Hudson and his mate, F. E. Fitch. There was
also a d
round board, which, however, died shortly after
leaving Margate on her way to the Thames. On
the 18th, inlet. 40.31 N., long. 56 W., about midnight,
the boat struck something very solid, and glancing on the
port bow, all sail set, stopped ship's headway, but found
she did no. leak. After the 15th did not see any sail
urtil August 5, when they spoke and went alongside the
barque Princess Royal, of Yarmouth (N.S.), long. 21 W.,
seven days from Dublin for Quebec. On the 6th a blind
sea came upon port quarter, which threw the ship on her
besas-ends ; she righted in half a minute. Bth, the boat
was again thrown on her beamends. 14th, 27 miles N. of
Unbent, shipped a heavy sea, which threw the ship for
the fourth time on her beam-ends, and had to bale the
water out. 14th, noon, made the Bill of Portland. 16th,
blowingheavy, and got towed into Margate. There was
no chronometer in the boat, and the ship was worked by
dead reckoning. Captain Hudson and his companion were
only enabled to have their provisions warm on very few
occasions, owing to the sea making over them. They kept
watch and watch, and when they landed at Margate they
were, as may be imagined, in a somewhat distressed con-
dition. The boat is of iron, 27 feet long, and 6 feet 1 inch
beam. She carried 120 gallons of water for the voyage.

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