The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

[STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL•]

THE CHJLEF.A.

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrhoea registered on Sunday sad Monday,
Sept. 23 and 24 :

West districts
North districts
Central districts
East districts
South districts

Choler►
. 2
.
. 8
. 15
. 11

D
.. 1
... 3

Total in London

THR HtALTH OP LONDON.

It appears from the return issued by authority
of the Registrar-General that in the week that ended
on Saturday, September 22, the birth' registered in
London and twelve other large towns of the United
Kingdom were 4,256 ; the deaths registered, 3,003. The
annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,037 boys and 976 girls, in all 2,033
child ',Ai, w,r, registered in the week. In the eorre-
spon w., t ten years 1856.65 the average number,
corrected for :...roitee of population, was 1,950. The deaths
registered in London during the week were 1,350. It was
the thirty-eighth week of the year ; and the average number
of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase
of population, 1,206. The deaths in the present return
exceed the estimated number by 144. This number is
exceeded by the deaths in the week
PllHrofieliariretteßield i
In the few We weelmirktitl=

were 198, 157. IS2 and 150 ; from diarrheain the same
periods 12+, 132, 110, and 98. The deaths from cholera
are less by 32 than the deaths front the disease in the pre-
vious week. Of the deaths registered last week from
cholera and iliarrhrea, 14 persons died from cholera, and 11
from diarrhoss in tha west districts ; 28 from cholera, and
19 from diarrbor. in the north districts ; 19 from cholera,
and 17 from diarrhae in the central districts • 56 from
cholera, and 24 from diarrhoea in the east disiricts; 33
front cholera, and 27 from diarrhaa in the south distrsets.
Fifty-three young persons under 20 years of age died
from cholera, and 81 from diarrhaa ; at the age of
20 and upwards, 97 deaths occurred from cholera, '
and 17 from diarrhos. Woolwich, unlike the other
parts of the metropolis, bad no medical health officer
at the time of the outbreak of cholera. But the Board of
Works, on the appearance of tho cholera in London, ap-
pointed a committee, who made the two union officers
health officers for the tinse being, and took other active
.tips to comber. -.hreateniug epidemic. In the case of
Brewer-place. r,. r, deaths front cholera occurred, it is
.uirnitted that t . -le was sonte delay in the application of
proper measure.. Four deaths from cholera occurred last
week in Woolwich, 10 in Deptford. The annual rate of
mortality last week was El per 1,000 in London, 19 in Edin-
burgh, and 27 in Dublin ; 18 in Bristol, 18 in Birmingham,
52 in Liverpool. 30 in Manchester, 29 in Salford, 21 in
Sheffield, 28 iu Leeds, 21 in Hull, 35 in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, and '22 in Obusgow. The rate in Vienna was 43 per
1,000 during the week ending the 15th inst., when the
mean temperature was I'4 deg. Fahrenheit higher than
in the same week in London, where the rate was 23 per
1,080.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.564 in. The baro-
metrical reading decreased from 22.94 in. on Tuesday
to '29.04 in. on Saturday. Thu mean temperature of
the air in the week was 53.7 deg., which is 2.5 deg. below
the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined
by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 66.9
deg. on Wednesday. The lowest night temperature was
42.1 deg. on Tuesday. The entire range of tempe-
rature in the week was, therefore, 24.5 deg. The mean
of the higloot temperatures of the water of the Thames
was :.>7.7 deg.; that of the lowest was rai.B deg. The differ-
ence between the mean dew point temperature and air
temperature was 5.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity
of the air was A 3, complete saturation being represented
by 100. Rain fell on five days of the week to th. amount
of o.ss in., one half of which was measured on Saturday.
The general direction of the wind was south-west. The
mist was observed on five days of the week.