The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-19 00:00:00

TSB ,PUBLIC HEALTH.

The weekly return of births and deaths in
London and in thirteen other large towns of the United
Kingdom states that in the week that ended on Saturday,
August 15, 4,141 births and 3,573 deaths were registered
in -London and in thirteen other large towns of the
United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 29
per 1,000 living. The annual rate of mortality last week
was 24 per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 26 in
Dublin; 2.5 in Bristol, 36 in Birmingham, 36 in Liverpool,
41 in Manchester 42 in Salford, 34 in Sheffield, 32 in
Bradford, 36in Leeds, 34 in Hull, 31 in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 28
per 1,000 during the week ending the Bth inst., when the
mean temperature was 2.7 deg. Fahrenheit higher than
in the same week in London, where the rate was 26.
In ten large English town's, including London, the annual
death-rate from diarrhoea last week was 7 per 1,000
persons living, against 9 and 8 in the two previous
weeks. In the several towns it was 4in London, 5 in
Bristol, 6 in Newcastle, 9 in Bradford, 10 in Sheffield, 11
in Hull, 12 in Liverpool and Manchester 14 in Salford and
Ueda, and, again highest, 17 per 1,000 in Birmingham.
Although the deaths from diarrheas showed a considerable
further decrease in London, they were more numerous in
most of the provincial towns, and the 779 deaths referred
to this cause in the ten towns were only 17 below the
number in the previous week. In London the births of
1,037 boys and 1,017 girls, in all 2,054 children, were
registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of
ten years 18.58-67, the average number, corrected for in-
crease of population, is 1,988. The deaths registered in
London during the week were 1,462. It was the
thirty-third week of the year, and the average number
of disths for that week is, with a correction for increase
of poodation 1,425. The deaths in the present return
exceed by 37' the estimated amount, but are less by 83
than the number recorded in the preceding week. The
deaths from zymotic diseases were 518, the corrected
average number being 519. Two deaths from small-pox,
25 from measles, 64 from scarlatina, 12 from diphtheria,
29 from whooping-cough, and 46 from fever were regis-
tered. The deaths of 223 children and 22 adults
from diarrhas were recorded. Thirty-nine cases occurred
in the west, 50 in the north, 18 in the central, 66 in the
east, mad 82 in the south districts. Cholera or choleraic
diarrhom proved fatal to 19 children and 10 adults. The
mortality from diarrhoea exhibits a decrease, but the num-
ber of deaths from cholera was the same as in the pre-
ceding week. The necessity for prompt and active treat-
ment of these diseases in the earliest stage cannot be too
generally known. Many lives would he saved if medical
aid were obtained at the onset. The mortality from diar-
rhas and choleraic diarrhcen or cholera in the London
waterfields to 100,000 living, was 7 in the New River, 8
in the Grand Junction, 11 in the Southwark and Lambeth,
12 in the Fast London, and 10 in the Kent field of 'supply.
The deaths of 3 persons from sunstroke wine recorded
last week ; in the three preceding weeks, 11, 6,
and 4 fatal cases were registered. The wife of
a wire worker, aged 2.1 years, died on the Ist of
August at 8, Wellesley-street, St. Luke's, of "poison-
ing from sating mussels." A butcher, aged 37 years,
died on the 10th of August in St. George's Hospital from
"gnat bite, inflammation of lymphatica." The deaths of
2 persons limn intemperance, of 3 persons from delirium
tremens, of 2 persons from privation, of 5 infants and 4
adults from syphilis, of 8 persons from burns or scalds, of
12 persons from drowning, of 4 infants and 1 adult from
suffocation, of 14 persons who committed suicide, and of 4
persons who were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets,
were registered.

for AND MALT EXCHANGE (LlMlTED).—Yes-
terday a special general meeting of t e shareholders was
held at the Exchange-buildings, Southwark, to confirm a
resolution adopted at the last ordinary meeting of the
compuiv, expunging certain articles of association bear-
ing on the appointment of the company's manager solid.
tors, and architect—Mr. Edward Lucas in the chair. The
proceedings were altogether of • formal character, but
Mr. Smeed, in seconding the confirmatory resolution,
stated that he had just come up from the hop districts,
and was happy to say that the crops were in a splendid
condition. The late rains and the warm nights had pro-
duced a most striking effect, so that the yield in Kent and
Sussex was liluzly to be from 12,000 to 13,000 pockets
more than was expected a fortnight since. He had also
to congratulate the shareholders upon the progress of the
building, which was now all but completed. They would
have an auction room, and ample storeage for several
thousand pockets of hope, so that the undertaking would
be a very great benefit to the growers, the buyers, and
ultimately to the shareholders. The resolution having
been confirmed, the proceedings terminated in the usual
manner. _

HEAVY DAMAGES FOR THE BITE OF A Doo.
Yesterday, before the Judge of the Shoreditch County
Court, an action sent for decision from the Court of
Exchequer, under the new County Courts Act, was
brought bye groom named James Cobb, who claimed
compensation for injuries, received from the bite of a dog
belonging to Charles Page a horse dealer, of KenUin.
The defendant kept a dog in his stable yard hidden from
sight by a provender bin. On the lith of March the
plaintiff went there on business, and the dog suddenly
made a bound as he was peeping by, and seized him in a
dangerous part, and inflicted very serious wounds. On
the part of the defenoe it was contended that the dog was
of a quiet and peaceable disposition, and was kept chained
where any one walking down the yard could see and avoid
it. The defendant might have provoked the dog b=
means, or he would not have assailed him. WI
were examined who swore they had known the dog for a
long time, and it bad always been of a peaceable, quiet
nature. The jury after a short consultation found a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, damages 401.
FIRE AT • PAPER-MILL.--Shortly after three
o'clock on Monday afternoon a fire was discovered in Mr.
H. "night's paper-mill, Garrett-lane, Wandsworth. The
extensive premisr were entirely destroyed, as well as the
whole of eth valuable stock. The entire damage is esti.
mated at upwards of 10,0001. The premises and contents
were insured in the Queen and the Ito .
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