The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-04 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Registrar General's weekly return contains
the following remarks :—ln the week that ended on Satur-
day, August 31, births, and 2,903 deaths, were
registered in London and in twelve other large towns of the
United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 24
per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality
Lid week was 22 per 1,000 in London. 22 in Edinburgh,
and 21 in Dublin ; 20 in Bristol, 32 in Birmingham, 30 in
Liverpool 32 in Manchester, 29 in Belford, 274 in Sheffield,
26 in Leeds. 23 in Hull, 40 iu Newcastle.upon•Tyne, and
22 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 27 per 1,000 during
the week ending the 24th ult., when the mean temperature
was 9.9 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in
London, where the rate was 21. The mortality from diarr-
hces during last week showed an increase in nearly all the
large towns, but wore particularly in Manchester, Bir-
mingham, and Sheffield. Of the above rates from all
causes the following proportions resulted from diarrhoea :
4 per 1,000 in London, 6in Liverpool, 9 in Sheffield, 11 in
Manchester and Seaford, and, the highest, 12 per 1,000 in
Birmingham. In Newcastle the mortality showed a fur-
ther considerable increase upon previous we‘cs ; while
in Leeds the mortality from all causes, but more
especially from diarrhoea, had sensibly declined.
In London the births of 1,034 boys and 1,031 girls, in all
2,085 children, were registered in the week. In the cor-
responding weeks of ten years, 1857-66, the avenge
number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,937. The
deaths registered in London during the week were 1,248.
It was the 35th week of the year; and the average number
of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increeme
of population, 1,269. The deaths in the present return
exceed by 19 the estimated number.
The deaths of 208 childreo and 18 adults from diarrheas
were registered last week. Thivy-eight rases occurred in
Le west, 58 in the north, 24 in the central, 40 in the east,
and 66 in the south districts. Cholera, or choleraic clarrhae,
proved fatal to 16 children and 6 adulta. The 226 deaths
from diarrheas, and the 22 deaths from cholera are slightly
in exams of the deaths from the same causes in the previous
week. The eases are sporadic. The health officers
in all such cases should still see that disinfectants
are effectually employed. In the oorresponiling week of
last year the deaths from diarrhea were 1•23, and from
cholera 198. . .

By Dr. Frankland's analysis of the water supplied by
the London companies, it appears that both the New
River and the East London waters contained in 100,000
tons 23 tons of extraneous matter, the other oompenia •
still more, while the West Middlesex water contained 29
tons, and the Kent 49 tons of stuff of various kinds. The
previous sewage contamination of all the waters at the
time of analysis had apparently been converted into inno-
cuous compounds. By this test the But London waters
were then the best, the Chelsea and the Kent waters the
worst of the eight. The tut bidity of the Southwark water
implies some defect in the process of filtration.
The deaths of six persons who were killed by horses or
carriages in the streets were registered.

THE BALL AT THE INDIA-norss.— Yesterday
afternoon Mews. Gluier and Some sold, by public martial',
the fitting, and decorations used at the grand bell given by
the India-offioe to the Sultan. There was a fair attendance
of theatrical and music-hall managers, hut the majority
were dealers. The catalogue comprised lls lots, including
25 pair of crimson Utrecht velvet curtains, 19 wire gilt
chandeliers, and a grand and highly d.-canted velarium.
The competition was very brisk and animated through-
out. The sale realised close upon 40W.
A TRADESMAN IMPRISONED FOR WIFE DR-
antrioN.—Joseph Long, a cloth weaver, of Yeadon, has
been sent to prison for three months es a rogue and vaga-
bond, from the Bradford borough court, fur deserting his
wife. The prisoner accompanied his wife to Bradford, to
see her friends on the 25th December, 1065, and under
some pretence left the house, and had not been sees Main
until about three weeks or a month ago. During the tame
he had been away his wife was confined.