The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-26 00:00:00

CITY 00.11Y13810N OF SEWBIIB.

Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of
D
blic bunkum.
Dr. LZTRIBT'S annual report of the sanitary, condition of
the City wee preessited, from which it appeared, ' That in the
pet year there were 3,184 births in the City, 2,893 deaths,
tad 1,689 marriages. All them numbers are below the
average for the oorreeponding period of the last ten years.
The falling off in the several numbers has been very general
throughout all the districts of the City, but it hes been most
marked in the Central division, where from • slow but
steady emigration of the wealthier climes, and the encroach-
ment. for public improvements en the domiciles of the poorer,
the fixed population has been greatly reduced. In the other
districts, where these Influences have not been so largely at
work, the reduction of the death rate has no doubt
been named by the exercise of smithery powers. Of
the 3,184 children been in the course of the per, 1,643
were make, and 1,641 fame*, proprtiom which ere r
1,066 males to 1,000 females. The 2,883 deaths in the City
were distributed se follows.-1,116 occurred in the Western
Ulnae, 703 in the Eastern, and 1,065 lathe Central. Thera
numbers are In the proportion of 26 per 1,000 of the inhabi-
tants of the first named district, 24 per 1,000 of the wood,
and nearly 19 of Ithe third, the general total being about 22
per 1,000 of the entire population. 21 per cent. of all
the deaths occurred in the summer quarter, 24 per cent in
the spring, 26 in the autumn and 29 in the winter. The
high mortality of the but named season is due, not merely to
the trying [Ousted of the weather, but also to the circum-
stance that this is the season when there Is always • large
congregation of the poor in theSity, and with it the milaof
overcrowding. Beddae which, the condition of the weather
does not pmt of those manor, operations which,
me so largely employed in the summer and autumn.
The table of the principal MIMS of death showed that the
number of deaths from violence has riseit from • general
average of 130 per annum to 167 ; those from ',Minna from 519
to 623 ; end chime from measles and the whooping-cough
and coup from 192 to 277. These lest, in fact, are the
diseases which have been unusually prevalent during the
year and although they are not all preventible to a like
extent, yet there can be no doubt that in every cam their
force can be lemened by the aid of sanitary science. The
chief increase in (Immortality from zymotic dioceses has been
noticed in the East London Union, but phtbisie has prevailed
to the largest extent in the western district.. The mortality
from other diseases has in almost every instance fallen
below the average, for the deaths from fever
were but 88 instead of 150; those from &whom
and dysentery among adults have fallen from 163 to 38;
scarlet fever, from 103 to 60; smallpox, from 24 to 6; and
erysipelas, horn 26 to 19. Altogether, indeed, as regards the
deaths from symotic diseases, excepting them from croup,
measles, whooping-cough, and diphtheria, which have so
largely exceeded the average, there has been a felllng off
from an seeress of 456 to 201, or to leas than half. This is
strong proof of the value of the sanitary measures adopted,
for nothing speaks so forcibly of the general condition of a
place as the death rate from them maladies. Daring the
year 6,340 inspections of housed were made, and 2,446 visits
to the common lodging-houses of the City. The number of
orders limed for sanitary improvement amounted to 1,721."
Upon the motion of Mr. Boss, seconded by Mr. BAIALEIT,
the report was ordered to be printed and circulated among
the members of the overt.
lINTROPOLMAN MIT OTT INPROVIMENTB.

The Cmutitmate having given a general statement of the
humid boluses of the court for the past year,
Deputy RatiteoN, a member of the Metropolitan Board
of Works, said that he had endeavoured, although ineffec.
Nally, to prevail upon the board to carry out necessary im-
panel's/ate in Newgete.street at their own txpenae, so that,
es Emitters stood, if they ware done at all, although they
mme 'metropolitan improvements, they must be done at
dm Impulse of the City ratepayers, who, at the
"e time, bad to beer one-tenth par; of the expense
stall Improvements effected by the board in the metropolis
y. whether the City was benefited b them or not.
" That it be referred to the Improvement Com-
mittals to =udder end report what further steps should be
talma with newt to the future improvements which have
been agreed to by this court, and towsrda the cost of which
it was expected the Metropolitan Board of Works would
have contributed one-third of the amount, bat which they
have decided not to do by their resolution dated the 21st of
January." (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Roes seconded the motion, which woe supported by
Mr. H. L. Taylor, and carried wlenimovaly, it been under-
stood that thinimportant aubject would be fully debated on
the bringing up of the report.

OMNIBUS SUBWAY COMPANY.

The engineer brought up • report stating-
that this com-
pany proposed to construct a rnbway, starting at the Royal
Exchange, passing through Cheaseide, the north side of
So. Paul'ss,, Ludgate-11111, Fleet-street, the Strand, Charing-
cross, Parliament.street, to the Holmes of Parliament, having
stations at every quarter of a mile throughout ate length. It
was to be constructed at but a moderato depth beneath the
streets, sou not to interfere with the gas and water pipes,
and was to be in the centre of the roadway,
to avoid in-
terference with vaults and cellars. (Laughter.) The
width of the carriages would be only sufficient to
carry two persons abreast in the first class and three
abreast in the second class carriages, two line* of
rails being laid. The project, if rortitd out, would
involve the re-construction of the whole of the sewers
throughout the entire length of the subway within the City,
as well as that of many others in collateral street*, and would
cause daring its construction much temporary inconvenience.
The scheme would require the careful attention of the Corn-
mission before any decision could be palely given with re-
spect to it.
The report was adopted ; and after the transaction of some
routine business the court adjourned.