The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-23 00:00:00

METHS AND DEATHS IN LONDON.

After the summer heat, and when the conditions
that attend It, and that are so fatal to children, are to some
;retest removed, London begins to enjoy a period of health,
In which the mortality is usually lower than at any other
time of the year, except the months of May and June. In
conformity with this rule, the deaths which were previously
above 1,000, sad in July rose above 1,200, fell in the week
that ended on Saturday (Sept. 19) to 948. It is farther to
be observed, that though diarrheas continues to exhibit more
than its ordinary degree of prevalence, the health of the
population generally applies; to be better than it washy is
in the third week of September, for if the weekly deaths from
cholera at two epidemic seasons be withdrawn from the cal-
culation, it will be found that nearly 200 meow survived
last week, who would have died if the average mile of mor •
ta/ity, am derived:from correepociding weeks in tea prerloss
yews, had prevailed.
The numbs, of children born last week exceeded that of
persons of all ages who died, by 776.
The fatal CUM of diarrheas now decline more rapidly, as
will be seen from the number. returned during the last flee
weeks, which were: 215, 192, 181, 144, end (last week) 111.
Only 3 deaths, two of which were those of children, are re-
!erred to cholera; 8 to dysentery. Small-pox was fatal to
only two children; meanies to 19, of whom 13 died in the
Central and East districts ; scarlatina to 39, of whom 28 died
in the same districts. The deaths from typhus and common
fever are 63. Nineteen persons died of cancer, 6of hernia,
2 of diabetes, 10 women from diseases incidental to child-
bearing, one of whom, a young woman of 18, died from
puerperal convulsions, in consequence of enemies joy; a
girl of 2 years died from mumps, a house painter from
peinter'm colic, a girl who had lived ten years with spina
bifida, one person from carbuncle, S from delirium tremens,
one from intemperance. Two widows died at the ogee re-
qeetively of 91 and 92 year; the oldest persons in the return
of the week.
Last week the birth, of MO boys and 839 girls, in all 1,722
children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1847-56 the average number was
I 445 . . . .

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of
the barometer in the week was 30'041 In. The mean daily
reading wee above 30 in. on the last eve day'. The greatest
barometric pressure was 3014 in. on Satordey. The mean
lempereture of the week was 621 deg., which is 59 deg.
above the average of the same week in 13 years (as deter-
mined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean temperature was above
the average on every day of the week, and on Wednesday
and Thursday the excess was about 10 deg. On the latter
day the highest point of the thermometer in the shade wee
attained, viz., 80 7 deg. • the lowest point was 489 deg., and
was obtained on Saturday. The whole range of the week
was therefore 31.8 deg. The mean dew point tempeneeze
woe 57.9 deg. ; and the difference between this and the mean
Or temperature was 41 deg. On Thursday the thermometer
in the sun rose to 1041 deg. The wind wee nearly always
in the ronth-west, till Friday afternoon when it changed to
north-eget. There was rein to the depth of 025 in. on Mon-
day ; none on any other day.