The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-10 00:00:00

HEALTH 07 LONDON DUZINO THE WBEN.

The return of the Regietrar-Cileneral for the week
liatarday, Noveraberli, shows a rather high
In the two preview weeks the deaths were 1,113 end 1,1
in the last week they roes to 1,217. The mean temperature
of the Mr In the first week of November wsa 6 deg. lower
than In the latter half of October ; and to this came app..
rattly the increase of mortality Is due. In the ten yen
1848.57 the average number of deaths ht the weeks eons-
=with last week was 1,028; but as the daubs Doe
occurred in • population which has inoteased, lbw
can only be compared with the avenge wham the lattert
raised proportionally to the inrresse, a oorreotica by whisk it
becomes 1,130. The compamon shows that 87 pigeons Mel
last week who would have survived if the average rate of
mortality, as found at thia season In former years, had pre-

If the deaths of last week had been according to the rate
of mortality that prevails in autumn in the healthiest coun-
try districts of England, they would have been 770 ; and the
actual excels above this limit which the return exhibits.
amounting to 447, is therefore to be referred to mimes that
are only or chiefly found In operation in London and other
city popnlations.
Scarlatina reached its highest point hi October, end wee
atationary during the greater pert of that month. It in Wks.
factory now to mark a decrease in its mortality, the deaths
having fallen from 166 to 138. Lent week It was decidedly
more fatal in the northern than in any of the four other Cri-
mea' of the metropolis. Fifteen daubs from soulatina
occurred In MaryleWse, of which more then half were re-
corded in the cub-dletrice of Christchurch ; 13 were returned
in PUMA!, 8 in Islington, 8 in the sub-districts of Kenning.
ton and Brixton, 4in that of Bt. Paul, Deptford. • shoe-
maker end two of his sons died of diphtheria at 209, Bottum&
green-read, within a period of els day*.
The Weems of the deaths in the present return over those
of the previous week, which has been shown above, arises
principally from bmnehitis and pneumonia, the former of
which rose from 83 desalts to 128, the latter from 77 to 99.
Lest week the births of 890 boys and 916 girls, in all 1,806
children, were registered be Lendon. In the ten acme.
!weeding weeks of the years 1848.67 the mirage number was
1,636.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of
the barometer in the week was 30.212 in. The barometrieel
readings were high, their daily mesas having been above
30 fa. throughout the week. The highest reading see
30.46 ht. an Beadily (October 31.4). The mean temper
here at the Mr tit the week was deg. 43.3, which is deg. 2.7
below the ammo of the same week in 43 years. On Monday,
the coldest day, the mean temperature was deg. 8.5 below
the average. The thermometer ranged from Its lowest point
deg. 28.3 an Monday to Its highest point 64 deg. ontWednes-
day ; the mean daily range was 16 deg. The difference be-
tween the meat dew-point temperature end air temperature
WAS deg. 4.1. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
86; on Monday the humidity was 96, Wog near the point of
complete !munition. The wind was needy always north-
east; during the greater part of the week the air ma very
oda. Hardly any rain ALI.