The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-08 00:00:00

THE HEALTH OP LOATDON.
It appears from the return Wand by' BlitYl67
rity Cl the Regiotracilmaersl that in week
that ended on
7,3F,22, Jan. 4, 4,723 births and
3,468 de e. were in London and in thirteen
other large towns the United Kingdom. The annual
rats of mortality wee 28 per 1,000 persons living. The
manual rate of mortality last week was 27 per 1,000
in Loam, 23 in Edinburgh, and 32 in Dublin Ea in
Bristol. 30 in Bliminghem, 32 in Liverpool, 40 In Man. ,
cheater, 33 in Seaford,22 in Sheffield, 32 in Bradford, 27
In Leeds, 27 in Hull, 29 in Newcastlempoa-Tyne, and
27 in Dimple. The rate in Vienna was 30 per 1,000
during the week endin the 28th ult., when the mean
temperature was 101 g clog. Fahrenheit lower than in the
same week in London, where the rate was 24. In London
the births of 1,190 boys and 1,128 girls, in all
1318 children, were registered in the week.
the corresponding weeks of ten years 185847 the
ammo number, cerrerted for incireme of population, is 2,187.
The deaths registered in London du the week were
1,624. It was the first week of the year ; and the
average number of deaths for that week is, with a correc-
tion foe increase of population. 1,64E4 The deaths in the
mem* return are leas by 24 than the estimated amount,
but exceed the number reseeded in the preesding week by
191. The deaths from sq diseases were 300, the °or-
, meted average number • 354. Twenty-two deaths
occurred from small-pox, from meealm, 43 from
scarlatina, 52 from whooping-eon& and 40 from typhus.
Measles was most fatal in the North, East, and South
districts ; 5 children died of the disease in Marylebase
weekhenes. Thirteen Mai ISM Cl 111:41AlLen
in the North &skirl* 4 being in the
TMetriot of Kentish-town. Twenty deaths occurred
in the South dietriets from merlatins, 4 were in the
sub-districd of Plumeteed. The daughter of a West
India planter, aged 3 rare, died on 22nd December at
65, Bride-street, Islington, of " English cholera." A stone
rac" aged 34 ears, died on the 31st December, at 10.
oMord., terrace, Battersea, of " choleraic clients:m(9 days).
hantiplegia effusion (2 days)." 157 deaths from phthisis.
232 from bronchitis, 104 from powmonia, and 84 front
dimmers of the heart wen recorded last week. The deaths
lifir=roons who were killed by horses or vehicles la the
of 6 children and 2 adults who were burnt, and of
12 children and 2 adults who were suffocated, were
ztered. Six persons died from internm A eanoe.
aged 52 years, died on ..th December, at 18,
Queen's-row, Kennington, of " gradual decay, seemingly
from want of 'efficient food and clothing." During the
sae 1867 the deaths of 164 persons who were killed by
or contain in the streets were registered. Forty. •
nine children under the age of 10 mare, 15 young persons
from 10 to 15 years
aeglzeie, 41 persons aged
20 and under 40 years, 40 and under 60, TT
aged 60 and under 80, and 3 80 years and upwards
last their lives, in many mace ft is to be feared from the
negligence of men driving in the streeta. The large num-
ber of children who were killed is accounted for in some
measure by the absence, in the poorer parts of the metro-
polis, of open spaces or playgrounds available for recrea-
tion ; for children living in crowded and ill-ventilated
courts can only play in the open streets. Beside, the un-
fortunate persons killed, • much larger number receive
serious injuries, which tend to shorten and embitter the
life they would otherwise enjoy. It would diminish the
danger of the streets if light bridges were constructed
over, or subways under, the most dangerous parte of
crowded thoroughfares, and if the penalties for furious
driving were strictly enforced. Ten persons were killed
by hones, 3 by carriages, 7by omnibuses 17 by cabs, 32
by vans or smears, 3 by drays, 43 by alias, and 47 by
vehicles not described. The large propoetion of fatal cases
occurring from injuries caused by rens waggons, and carts
probably arises from those heavily laden vehicles being
driven so fast that their weight and momentum prevent
their being stopped in time for foot passengers to
escape.
Cabs and light carriages are more under the controlr=
driver ; home fewer casualties from this class of vehicles
I see recorded.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the moan height
of the barometer in the week was 30130 in. The baro-
metrical reading decreased from 30•19 ie. on Monday,
December 30, to 29'82 in. on Saturday, January 4. The
mesa temperature of the air in the week was 30'1 deg.,
which is 7'o deg. below the average of the same week in
50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisber.% The highest
day temperature was 407 deg. on Sunday, December 23.
The lowest night temperature was tait deg. on Friday,
January 3. The entire range of temperature in the week
was, therefore, 171 deg. The (Marcum between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was Sit
deg. The mean dr-ree., of humidity of the air was 75,
complete saturationbeing represented by 100. Rain fell
to the amount of 015 in. Snow fell on the lam fear days
of the week. The general direction of the wind was N.B.
According to a reture furnished by the engineer of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily quantity
of sewage pumped into the river Thrones at the
Southern Outten Works, erossnese, war 55,71510.4
gallons, or 253,142 cubic metres, equivalent to about as
many tons by weight.

NATIONAL CoNIERENCS on EDUCATION. —Tho
following is the programme of the pommelling' at the con-
ference ea education to be held in the Town-hall, Men.
nester, =Wednesday next,Mr.E.R.Le More in the chair.
The following report, adopted at a meeting of the Educa-
tion Bill Committee, on the `t.fril December, 184;7, to be
read:—" That, in the opinion of this committee, it is ex-
pedient to make greater provision for the education of the
pourer classes. and to provide funds for that purpose by
means of local rates under local administration. That the
union of seining schools, either as free schools or aided
schools, should form the basis of operation. subject to the
conditions laid down in the minutes of the ceiimittee of
council on education in force for the time tieing, as re-
ported to parliament from time to time, and the protection
of a conscience clause, but without further interference
with the instruction, discipline, or management of such
schools. That power should be given to establish new
schools out of the rates, where there is insufficient school
accanmiodation in the schools in union in my locality, if, lifter
due notice, voluntary effort fails to supply the deficiency.
That Messrs. Brom, Forster, and Ale.rnon Egerton be
earneatly requested to re-introduce the bill of last ses-
sion, or to support any measure brroouagfht forwent by the
government, if based upon similar principles. That, with
the view of aiding the Education B Committee in mat-
ters of detail, the opinion of the conference be invited on
the following questions:—let. The relative advautages of
• permissive bill and one based on comp:f loozy rating.
2nd. If the bill be band on compulsory lacing, would it
be desirable to make it applicable at once to the whole
country, ur applleable only by order in council, on the re-
port of her lMajesty's school inspectors ? 3rd. Is them
anything peculiar in the condition of rural parishes which
renders it needful to make special regulations on their be-
half, or to exempt them from the operations of the bill?
4th. To what extent is it desirable to modify the minutes
of council so as to include purely secular school' ?" The
chairman to move that the conference be now opened, end
that Mr. 11. Auntie Bruce, anal Mr. W. IL Forster,
Y.P., be elected presidents ; and that Professor Christie,
Dr..l. Watts, Mews. Herbert Philips, J. S. Wynn, and
J. A. Bremner, be requested to act as honorary wine-
ries. Mr. H. A. Brum, M.P., having taken the
will chair
then . wi
be
ll
deliver an address. The poin to be seed
taken by the speanse in the following order:—Permissive
compulsou. how set in motion?
".
conditioning. rural l districts. Minutes of council,
they be modified so se to adulit secular schools.
Chairman to we op the dimension, and to close the e.—
""'"by moving the adieurnment of the conferenceThltEy, January 16: Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., having
taken the chair, will deliver an address. The opinion of
the conference will then be invited upon the following
points Operation of the Industrial Schools Act, 2.
Extension of the Factory Act, la. 3. Is it desirable to
aseend the principle of compulsory school attendance
bepuisoop4 theme measures? 4. Means by which such coin-
attendance diould be 'Pierced. 5. Cempulsory
cleans proposed to Ile introduced by Mr. Bailey to be con-
sidered. Any special question innedscied by a member of
the conference. Chairman to sum up discussion, and to
close the proceedings of the conference. With a view to
facilitate the proceedings of the conference, it particularly
requested that gentlemen intending to speak upon any par-
ticular tons will intimate such Intention to the secretary
as early es passible.—Join. S. Msvisoe and J. A. Barmsga,
boo. seesetaries of the Eduestica Bill committee. Tuonan
SHOWING, secretary to the Conference.
Coweeolorti DISEASES Act 1866.—0 n the 6th
inn • meeting was held at Chadaini, where this act has
been two years in operation, to mosider the advisability of
extending it to the civil population of large towns. The
meeting was attended by most of the benenced clergy and
gentry of Chatham, Rachman., end Stroud, and by medial
officers of the army and navy. The Rector of Chatham,
the Rev. A. R. Webster, ILA. filled the chair. After
discussion which went to now 'that much benefit accrues
from the act, and that It doer not deteriorate public
morality, a resolution was in favour of its Inithse
extension to all large town in the United Kingdom.
Duratrorros or • STATION ON THE Omar
Warms" RAILWAY NY Pm.—Ahern 12.30 p.m. on Mon-
day, laaneaisin Station, on the West Midland &sash
ed
tbs Great Western, two ;ones and I half from Quaker's.
yard,
burnt~ son on See, sad ha lees thew two Lours ft was
to the grerad, Wain its feandation quite hen. The
station was Indb el wood, and being very dry, it took fire,
it seem, from Me beat of the stove that ma in the book.
isignions. The senile b Mat 111 wee net burnt long elm,
es the Mon was quits oho Mahe weed en one side of the
losildbg. Then win *oft bek at band to remove al
the valuable tidirlidwoeisidabodsue the the reached them.-i-
Dati
The Liverpool cob tooprieiere do not intend to
mutt= the to= sad"ineeriveislosei the attendant at the
loyal hell by stzikingess the eight of the 9th. They hold
their sword in esepiese until the notices of the new bra-
iny, en Reddy.): Woe&