The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-21 00:00:00

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GORDON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21.

Bum his observatory at Somerset-house the
Reourraaa Gintenal has just issued his periodical
Report on the Health of the Metropolis during
the pest year. Week by week, with rigid exact-
ness he informs us of the state of our
hygienic barometer, and when it points to "stormy,".
or even to "change," the quarter whence the
unfavourable influence originates is indicated in
conjunction with timely monitions as to the
necessary measures for removing what is amiss
assoag mi. At the end of every twelvemonths,
like a prudent merchant, he takes stock, strikes
hie balance, and publicly declares the amount of
profit and loan by the trade of the year. On this
occasion his account is more than ordinarily
interesting, for by the aid of his ready staff of
observers,. and with the co-operation of the Regis-
tries-General of Scotland end Ireland, be has
obtained a weekly record of the state of some of
the chief towns and cities of the United Kingdom,
and thus we are enabled to see how we who dwell
within the limits of "the modern Babylon "stand
in comparison as to healthfulness with other town
populations.
Some two centuries ago it was estimated that,
according to the rate of increase then prevailing, by
the year 1840 the inhabitants of England and
Wales would probably amount to 10,900,000, out
of whom 10,700,000 would be lasted in London,
leaving only 200,000 as the residue to be distri-
buted over the country. The citizens were in-
creasing and multiplying so fast as to make it
appear to the observer in those days that unless
the relative growth of the City were checked by
the year 1800 there would be nobody left to do
the necessary tillage and other rural works, and
the whole machine would come to a dead lock.
The statist of that period must have overlooked
4 few considerations which, as things have turned
out, were important elements in the calculation ;
for the population of the entire country, which
he reckoned would only double itself in
360 years, or thereabouts, has during the last
century become quadrupled, whilst London singu-
larly enough takes now pretty nearly the exact
number of years to double its population which
were assigned in 1683, namely, 40 years. These
were no signs two hundred years ago of any rival
cities, such as Liverpool, Manchester, and Bir-
mingham, with their swarms of inhabitants in-
creasing yearly at a rate equal, and even in ad-
vance of the growth of the metropolis ; and
therefore the tendency to aggregation was consi-
dered solely with reference to the only city which
waist that time thought of.
It is unquestionable that this tendency, as already
developed, and the extent to which it will proceed
in future, is a matter which perplexes many now,
just as it formerly troubled the mind of Sir Wrtasam
Perry ; it is one of the many social problems
awaiting solution. The population of London
within the registration limits was by estimate
2,993,513 in the middle of last year, and increased
al the rate of 1.73 per cent. per annum. But
outside this central mass is a ring formed by the
boundary of the metropolitan police district
which contains 470,000 persons, so that the ag-
gregate population within that circle is about 3}
millions. It is on the area lying nearest to the cir-
cumference that the increase proceeds most
rapidly. As we get farther from the centre, a
purer atmosphere and a more healthy condition
of life have an immense influence, and the rate
of increase which, as we have seen, was but 1.73
per cent. springs up to nearly 3 per cent. A com-
parison of the rates of mortality yields the grati-
fying assurance that London is with one exception
the most salubrious city in the United Kingdom,
albeit its death-rate was higher in the last two
years than it has been on an average
of 26 years. The only continental city for
which the RZOISTHAR-GENZBAL has been able
to obtain the information necessary for a
comparison is Vienna, where 32 deaths occurred
to every thousand persons living during last year,
whilst in London the mortality was 24 per 1,000,
in Bristol 24, in Birmingham 25, in Dublin 26,
in Hull 27, in Edinburgh 28, in Salford 29, in
Leeds 31, in Manchester and Glasgow 33, and in
Liverpool 36. The attention of foreign govern-
ments is called to the results of English experi-
ence of the benefit of full publicity in all
matters where secrecy or indefinite appre-
hension is liable to cause a feeling of alarm ;
and the cholera panic last year in Paris,
Marseilles, and Naples, is cited as evidence
of the wisdom of leaving nothing to conjecture.
With judicial impartiality we also are reminded
that the alarm which undoubtedly exists amongst
as important section of the community regarding
the ravages of the cattle disease is "an exact re-
"production
of the oontinental panic ;" and it is
quite certain that this alarm is due altogether to
the absence of those statistics which alone could
show the excess of the mortality amongst cattle
which is attributable to the prevailing disease.
The want of knowledge of the laws which govern
epizootic is leading our legislators into all sorts of
difficulty, and it is to be hoped that one good at
least will result from our present trouble, in the
establishment of a comprehensive system of agri-
cultural dandies.
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