The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-26 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE PAST

WEEK.

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In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths
restored in the metropolitan diarists amounted to 1,166.
This result shows a small increase on the average of cone.
spending weeks in the ten years 1840 9,wbich is 1,146 (with.
out corm ion for probable increase of population) ; v.e
numbers s.verally returned in these weeks having horn lees
than 800 in 1811, and having rises to 1,262 in 1846, aid,
by the tome nf itfiseesa, to 1,946 in 1847. During the three
weeks, which have jest elapsed, of the current mouth, 1,004,
1,090, and 1,166 deaths have teen aucesesively recorded;
but it must be observed that the formidable Mere,. in the
present return Is eared not exclusively or principally by an
attgrauted rote of mortality, but by an irflux of coroner's
eases, which occurred at dates antecedent to last week,
though the registration of them has been postponed till the
row of the quarter. Of the death, on which inquests are hill
the largest proportion fall under the category of " violence ;"
, and el these 4 are now enumerated under poison, 11 under
burns and lords, 6 under hanging and suffocation. 2 und.r
droweinr, and 27 under fractures and wounds (of which 14
occurred to men by accidents' falls on the meet, and by
falling from windows and otner heights). Two boys, 3 . We,
and an aged woman were burnt by their clothe. carnet ii•e .
3 children were accidentally suffocated in bed; 6 children
died from want of hreast-milk; a woman wee poisoned by
an overdoes of laudanum, sad a child by Godfirey's Cordiel.
Intemperance was fatal to aim and a woman, by 'vocation
apoplexy ; and a miller of 19 years died from ' cheerer ot
. lungs and kers-joist (about 4 months)," whom Maas is
" stated to have arisen from inhaling the dust of hat mEL
Amongst the fatal causes of last week, disarm of "the
lungs and other organs of respiration" are conspitaires on the
list ; they amount to 274, nearly the sense ea is the previous
week, and still slightly *scud the average. Bronchitis
I numbers 102, pneumonia 117. and tethers 34 drabs. In the
raber.mler claw, there are 8 from serofula, 16 from tars saes
Isentence, 25 from hydrocephalus (or water in the head), and
112 from consumption.
Amongst epidural, unallspos carried off 21 children and
4 adults. nearly the same 'umbra as is the tomer weak ;
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merles 21 ; scarlatina 30; hutting cough has risen from 44
to 62; roue numbers 10; diarrhea 16; typhus 43 ; and
erysipelas 11. A single ear of cholera was registered, as
follows ;—ln the Workhouse, Mile-end New Town, on 16 h
December, a boy, aged 8 stars," English cholera (48 bouts)
consecutive fever (8 days).!
An analysis of the 1,166 eases registered lest week, shows
that:—The causes of death were sertilied by written state-
ments of medical attendants, in 1,044 eases; terriers' in-
quests on others were held in 91 ears; medusa attendance
was not obtained (nor breams held) MR was; ours of
death were not crertiAed (wt only by oral statement ot
attendant or informant), in 32 eases. Total. 1,166. Hence
it appears that the castes of death, either certified by
the medical profession, or which became the subjects of
, investigation before coroners' juries, fora 97 per cent. of the
, total number.
The births of 729 boys and 748 girls, la all 1,477 children,
, were registered in the week. The average of corresponding
weeks in five year (1846 9), we. 1,342. .

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