The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-13 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON.

The Registrar's return states that the rate of
mortality in London was higher last week than it usually is
in the first week of February; but since by a grateful
change fine weather has reigned, the weekly manlier of
deaths has rapidly fallen. In the week that ended but
Saturday 1,459 deaths were registered ; in three preceding
weeks the numbers were 1,92A3, 1,763, and 1.544. In the
five weeks ending January 19th the mean weekly tempera-
ture ranged front 251ideg. to 32.4 deg. In the last three
weeks it has been about 42deg. The average number of
deaths as obtained from the returns of the weeks tor-
responding with last week in the ten years 1851.60, and
oorected for increase of population, is 1,360. The present
return, therefore, shows an excess of almost a hundred I
deaths over the calculated amount. The deaths from pub
mouary diseases, exclusive of phthisis, decreased from 447
in the previous week to 362 last week, which latter number
may be compared with the corrected average for ten cor-
responding weeks, 321. The mortality from bronchitis is
on the decline, though it is still above the average. This
disease uunibered 210 deaths last week, pneumonia 94,
asthma 32, whooping-cough 81. There were 10 deaths
from small-pox. Eleven nonagenarians died in the week, the
oldest of whom were a man aged 97 years, and two widows
aged repectively 97 and 99 years. Six deaths are referred
to murder or manslaughter, 4 of which are deaths of infants.
Nine deaths (6 of infants) are ascribed to syphilitic disease.
Two persons died from privation, viz., the son of an excava-
tor, aged 6 years, who was brought to Westminster Hospital
from Damn-street. Westminster, and died on the 3rd instant
of "privation, tuberculous disease ;" and the widow of a
wine-cooper, aged 65 years, who died on the 18th ultimo,
at 19, Rushton-street, St. John's-road, Shoreditch, from
" congestion of the heart caused by want of fried and ex-
posure." There were also two cases of privation in which
verdicts of murder or nianslangliter were returned. A
journeyman wood-career and his wife died, the latter on the
7th instant, the former on the Nth instant, of typhoid fever,
at 99, Mansfield-street, f la=erstone. A female servant who
was brought to the Small-pox Hospital, where she died,
had been living in a family JO Kensington where there was
smallpox, and when she was attacked by the disease it is
stated that she was turned into the street. A statement of
so grave a character requires investigation. Of 15 children
who died by suffocation, 12 were suffocated in bed. Last
week the births of 1,067 boys and 999 girls, in all 2,066
children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1851-60 the average number was
1,774.

TRAFFIC RETURNS.
Miles Pas- hter- Total, Total,
RAILWAY, open seugers thandis• 1861 1830
Week ending Jan. 12.
Northern of Canada 94 274 678 951 643
Week ending Feb. 3.
North Staffordshire' 246 7,940 7,886
Week ending Feb. 9.
Olwow, south Western 7,342 6,242
Week ending Feb. 10.
Manchester, South Juuc-

non. & Allrlncham 890 233 983 888
Great Lutrmhounr
Lataket an 4 Blackwall 1.168 243 1.378 1.381

North London

.... 9 1.1223 1,632 2,360 2,314

• The shore hi ezehudre of traffic due under agreement with
the London and North Western Railway Company.:

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