The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-14 00:00:00

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.

It nppears from the return issued by autho-
rity of the Registrar-Geneml. that in the week that ended
Saturday last, 1,368 births awl 3.116 deaths were regis-
tered iu Londou Laid iu thirtetai other large town, of the
'United Kilo:dein. The e tttttt al rate of mortality was 2.3
per 1,600 persons living. The annual rate of mortality
last week was 24 per 1.000 in Loudon, 26 in Edin-
burgh. and 20 in Dublin ; 22 in Bristol, IR in Birmingham.
ails ill Liverpool, 31 in Manchester, 41 in Salford. 25
in Sheffield. 26 tu Bradford. 31 in Leeds, 210 in Hull, JO in
Newcastleupws-Tyne, and 27 in Glasgow. The rate in
Vienna wax 21 per 1.000 duringthe week ending the 26th
ult., and in Berlin 35 per 1.000 during the seven days
eliding the Bth inst. The return fur Vienna is
plied by Dr. °latter, and for Berlin be Dr.
Luelzer. Scarlatina and different forms of typhus
and typhoid fevers are just now &bowleg in-
creased fatality WI several of the large English towns ;
the former more particularly so in Manchester and Leeds,
as will as London, and the latter in Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Leeds. Scarlatina last week in Manchester
was three times, and typhus in Liverpool five times, as fatal
in proportion to population, as the same diseases in the
metropolis. In London the births of 1,198 boys and 1,127
girbs in all 2,325 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1868-87, the
average number, corrected for increase of population, is
2,041. The deaths registered in Loudon during the week
were 1.438. !twee the forty-first week of the year; and the
average ;lumber of deaths for that week is, with a oorree-
tion for increase of population, 1, '133. Thedeathsiu the pre-
sent return exceed by 145 the estimated amount. and exceed
by 209 the number recorded in the yeasting week. The
deaths from xymotie diseases were 349, the corrected
average number being 372. Six deaths from instil-pox,
23 from measles, 109 from scarlatina, 10 from diphtheria.
14 front whooping-cough, 62 from fever, and 49
from diarrhon, were registwed. Vise daughter of a
labourer, aged one year, died on I;th October at 37, Stan-
ley Park-road, Fulham, of "choleruic cliarrhoo (a days) ;
exhaustion." The mortality from small-pox, unosles,
and whooping-cough is comparatively low, but the death-
rate from fever is high, and from scarlatina greatly in ex-
cam. Seam eases ;of siorlatina were ?wooled last week
in the sub-district of Kensington Town, 3 in the sub-
district of Fulham,. 4 in the nib-district of Chelsea
North-west. 2 in the sub-district of Chelsea North-
east, 3 in the sub-district of St. Johte %Vest-
niinster, 1 in the sub-distiiet of Somers Town, 1 in the
sub-district of Kentish Town. 7 in the sub-district of St.
Giles South! 2 in the nub-district of St. Andrew k:attien
Holborn, 2 In the Church sub-district of Bethnal-green. 5
in the sub-district of Mile-end Old Town East, and 4 'in
the sub-district of Rattenco. During the last four w
4113 deaths have occurred in the metropolis from iseariati
it is to be regretted that no general measum has hithe '
beets devised for rimming out this destructive disease. 1/f
the 62 deaths registered Irons fever, 20 uccurnsl frere
t)pliue, 27 Loa typhoid or gastric. fever, 3 from infantile
fever, and 12 from common onntinned fever. Tinted •
deaths from fever were registered last week, in die
sub-district of Tottenham Court, 7 in the subs
district of Islington West (where the Lrmdou Fever
Hospital is sit natio). 1 in the sob-diitrict of West London
North, 3 ia the nub-dixtriet of St. Lerman], Shoredltuh;
2 iu the eub-ilintriet of itatelif. 3 in the sub-district of
Mile-curl told Town West, 3in the sub4latriet of Clap-
ham, und 2in the ash-district of Greenwich West. One
hundred and sixty- • • deaths occurred from phthisio, 91
from br ttttt 03 from imeumonia. Ks from diseases of
the heart. and 102 flout di tieamtui id the brain and nervoue
ptem. The &Mlle of 2 nervous from delirium tremens,
of 2 persons from intenipc•ranee. of 10 infants end 2
.adults from eyphiliai, of 2 children from burns or scalds,
0,7 Penton" from drowning, of 6 istfautA and one adult
fT, a suffomitton, of 9 persons who committal *tickle, and
of 4 persons who were killed by homes or carriage* in the
seeee,s were registered. The widowed a boat-balder, aged
no yet, rs, was found dead on 2nd October, at 14, flagrant-
ntvsroarl, Isom "effusion in ventrielus of brain,
acciderut el by went and exposure."

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