The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-29 00:00:00

171. N BILALTH OP LONDON.

It appears from the return kernel by the anthe-
rity of the Registsar-General, that in the week audio.; nn
Faturday, 4,314 births and 4.030 deaths were registe iii
lender and in thirteen other large tense of Use
Kinedem. The annual rate of mortality war 33 per I,I)JJ
pui one living.
The annual rate of mortality lest week was, 31 per 1.033
in London 72 in Edinburgh, and 23 iu Dublin; in
!Mittel, 28 in Birmingham, 37 in Liverpoal, 40 in It vi-
shester36 in Salford, 31e in Sheffield, 40 in Brieltord, 35 in
Lettle,l4 In Mull, 26 iu Newcastle-upon-Tyne. and 31 in
Glasgow. The rata in Vienna was per 1,000 daring
the week ending the 18th inst., when the moan tempera-
ture was Oleg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same w
in London, where the rate was 27.
The mortaLty from diarrboie skewed a further increasa
during lest we In newly teri the large Faiglisli tomes, 4111
was at the annual rate of 4 per 1,000 in Neffsa-lle-upou-
Tyne, 8 in Bristol, 7 in London, gin Liverpool and
Ito in Manchester and Salford, II in null. 12 in Leeds.,
and, highest, 14 per 1,000 in Birmingham. In Load..
the temperature in the shade rose to 96.6 deg. Fahren-
heit, mid the mean temperature of the week was 6,e2
deg., bet thee was no approach to these high tem-
peratures in the other towns, the highest recorded in the
shade being 91'6 deg., and the highest mean of tee
week 644 deg., both in Sheffield. It will be observed
that in the English towns the lowest mortality from
diarrhea occurred in Newcastle, where the mean tempe-
rature of the week was only 60'3 deg., and lower than
in any of the other towns. In London the births of
980 boys and 1,023 girls, in all 2,003 children, were regis-
teed in the week. In the corresponding weeks of on
years 1868-67 the average number, cornered for increase
of population, is 2,062. The deaths of 945 males and 94J
females, in all 1,886 persons, were registered in London
during the week. It was the thirtieth week of the year;
and the average number of deaths for that week is, w.th
a correction for increase ad population, 1,676. The deaths
in the present return exceed by 310 the eistimer.el amount,
and are more by 243 than the number recorded in the
reeding week. The deaths from emetic diseases were
800, the corrected average number being 631. Sven
deaths from anall-pox, 36 from mewling, 47 from scarla-
tina, 10 from diphtheria, 46 from whooping cough, and
67 from typhus were registered. Fifty-eight deaths by
cholentic diarrhea or summer cholera were regieterei in
the week ; 48 were ehildren under one year of age, 8 aged
one year, one aged 3 years, two aged 6 years.
Four hundred and forty-two persons died of diarrhea,
of whom 363 were children under 1 year of ago, 49 were
1 year and less than 2 years, and 23 were of persona agel
20 years and upwards. What is required in cases et
diarthosa or summer cholera, now frequent, is immediate
rational treatment. Neglect of the early stage in children
and in the aged is death. The people should be visited
and informed of this. The health officer of Manchester
has proposed special measures to meet the emergency, and
it writ be satistactory to learn that some such proposal In
adopted by the health officers of London and of all the
large towns. The mortality from diarrhoea and choleraic
diarrhea or cholera differs little in the London waterti sld4,
the deaths to 140,000 living ren thus : 15 in New River,
16 in Grand Junction, 17 in Southwark and Lambeth, 18
in East London, and 201 n the Kent held of supply. The
deaths of 16 infants and three adults from syphilie, of 5
persons from delirium tremens, of 4 persons from intern-
perauee, of 6 children and 2 adults from burns or ecutda, of
17 persons from drowning, of 7 infants from suffocation, of
10 persons who committed suicide, and of 3 children and 3
adults who were killed by horses or carriage.. were regis-
teied. Eleven persons died from sunstroke.