The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-26 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Registrar-Generale return shows that in
the week that ended on Saturday, August 22, 4,C01
births and 3,541 deaths were registered in London
and in thirteen other large towns of the United
Kingdom. The annual rate cf mertality was 29 her
1,000 living. The annual rate of mortality last week
was 24 per I.ooe in London, 31 in Minix:llhn and 2.1 in
Dublin; 24 in Bristd, 35 in Birmingham, 34 in Liverpool,
45 in Alan, heit,r 44 in Salford 37 in Sheffield, 30 in

Pradford. 38in Leeds, 33 in Hull, 27 in Newrisd.le-upon-
Tyne and 28 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 29
per 1,000 during the week ending the 15th inst.,when th 4
mean t.mperature was 12.0 deg. Fahrenheit higher than
in the same week in London, where the nite was 24.
The deaths from diarrhea in the eleven large Eng-

lisp towns, ineludingLondon, were 739 last week,against 917, 796, and 779 in the three previous weeks, and
again showed an annual death-rate of 7 per 1,000 per-
son. living. The number of fatal eases had slightly de-
clined in most of the provincial towns, the rates in the
several towns being 4in London, 6in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne. 7 in Bristol, 9 in Sheffield and Bradford, 10 in
Liverpool, 12 in Manchester, Hull, and Salford, 13 in
Leeds, and, again highest, 16 per 1,000 in BirininOam.
In London the births of 1,017 boys and 1,020 girls, in all
2,t67 children, were registered in the week. In the cor-
roponding weeks of ten yearslB6B-67 the average number,
corrected for increase of population, is 2,038. The deaths
registered in London during the work were 1,428. It
was the thirty-fourth week of the year, and the average
number of deaths fur that week is, with a earrection
for increase of population 1,361. The loathe iu
the present return exceed by 77 the estimated
amount, but are fele by 34 than the number
recorded in the preceding week. The deaths from symo.
tie diseases wore :47 the corrected average number being
483. Five deaths from small-pox, 33 from measles, 49
from scarlatina, 7 from diphthong, 22 from whooping.
cough, and .53 from fever were registered. Two hundred
and forty-six deaths from diarrhesa were recorded ; in the
preceding week the number was 245. Seven deaths from
diarrhwu were registered in the sub-district of Kentish
Town, 14 in the sub-district of Islington Wort, 10 in the
sub-distiiet of lelington East, 7 in the sub-district of the
Green, Bethnal-green, bin the sub-district of Poplar, 7 in
the sub-district of Lambeth Church, second part, and 6
in the sub-district of Battersea. Cholera or choleraic
diarrhea proved fatal to 13 children and 2 adults.
The mortality from diarrhiea and choleraic diarrhoea or
cholera' in the London wuterdelds to 100,000 living. was
nine in the New River, six in the Grand Junction. 11 in
the Southwest and Lambeth, 10 in the East London, and
seven in the Kent field of supply. 166 deaths occurred
from phthisis, 66 from bronchitis, 37 from pneumonia, 42
from diseases of the heart, and 140 from diseases of the
brain and nervous system. The deaths of 10 infants from
syphilis, of three persons from burns or scalds, of nine
persons from drowning, of five infants from suffocation, of
siz persons. who committed suicide, and of six persons
who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets, were
registered.

Mont AORAILIA.N OUTR&01111 IN IREL.tND.—A
threatening notice is almost en unheard-of outrage in the
county of -Wexford, and is, therefore, probably all the
more alarming. The landlords being nearly ad of the
" old stock." who maintain amicable relations with their
tenantry, the agrarian crimes, which blacken tiro character
of other countioi, are almost unknown there. Within the
last few days, however. a sensation has been caused by
threatening notices of the old Whiteboy type, which have
appeared within a few miles of the county town, the sub-
ject of them being a Mr. Rickard, who has recently ac.
quired property m the parish of Glanbryrui. It would
appear that Mr. Rickard bad demanded an increased rent
from his tenantry, a demand to which they wore not
willing to accede. Within the last few days notions have
been found posted near Mr. Rickard's residence, and on
the chapel gate at Glanbryan, informing him that if he
continues to demand increased rents lus house will be
burned and that he himself will be shot. Trne to the
character of such notion, the figure of a coffin was at
the bottom. The police are engaged investigating the
affair, but up to the present na clue has been found to the
periielratons of the outrage.
z HOP PwatTATIONS.-14CMISTER, AUGUST
26.—The heavt gales of the last few dhya and the storms
of rain !me had a mast dissidents effect on the hops, which
are everywhere looking far less •prornisin,g than was the
case last week. To many of the-more exposed plantations
the injury done to the hops ivies,/ /great. the wind baying
blown down the poise end tomer/ the branches *gardens
extending over hundreds of awed Picking hes WinolP•011W.
morsel, and in the mune' -of • a few days will become
general,the mama this year being fully three week.)
• earlier than ever previously known. Severel thousand
hop-pickers have arrived, chiefly by railway, from the
Dubow* and more distant parts, the Index of pickers
being this year very great.
Captain Armstrong, uto was picked up from
the wreck of the Tara, the sole survivor of tvrenty-foar,
Las died from the effects of the injuries he had reedited.
The Tea Duty being reduced, Hornianan's Pure
Too b sold M. pow pound amp,. This tatersetter tent win, wlans
Tully known, even farther twosome the demand foe those &Wow
Ice* swproved tow Tho 7 are not toad Uwe, but only is yoobono
dined "/Ignabson. I.m.don."—(Aderetieszasoki