The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-01 00:00:00

BEAL'IVI OF LONDON DUPDG THE T 7

( Front the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The deaths registered in London, which in the pre:
vious week had been 915, rose in that which end Is!!
Saturday to -1,036. Jr the corresponding weeks of 00
ecbr..3l.
10 years 1845-54 the avera,e number was 1,087,
however,• comprises the mortality caused by the:hbo
epidemics of 1849 and 1854, and would in normal eo,,
ditions have been less than 1,000. That average,ba
raised by a tenth part for increase of population,
comes 1,196.
This period of the year is unfavourable to the health
of young children livine. London, Th
in and its influeoce
begins to be visible in an increase of mortality. .!
deaths of infants who had not completed their firstr;
were in the two previous weeks 223 and 217 reePe_,
tively ; last week they were 308. Of the princip
cause to which these 308 deaths are refrared, diarrbces
claims the greatest number—viz., 77 ;to debility are rto
ferred 32, to atrophy, 39, to tabes masenterica
convulsions 36, to teething 9, to want of breast milk
e
The total number of deaths from diarrhoea last etm
was 93 ; in the former week it was 67. IC
were returned for last week as caused by i e
&chd:lW3e'•`'
- joie*:
including cholera infanturn " and
cliarrhcea." Six of the cases occurred among ebildr9o
less than one year old ; the rest among adults
years of age and upwards. Although two are
ap . l/7.,
ported as " Asiatic cholera," they were Pr°btlie
only cases of the usual summer epidemic. and, Pas the
season is now comparatively late, it is to he hoPecir;tbe
London will this year escape another visitation•
corresponding week of 1849 tht re were 783 deaths frThe
om
cholera, and in that (.4 last year there were 133
93 deaths of last week from diarrhoea are thee 17 to
buted-14 in the west districts, 12 in the noitb,
the central 23 in the east, a:,d 27 in the south dietricoa,
S •avatira, and typhus were fatal in 8 cases in the Iv't-b
in
12 in the north, in 16 in the central, in 25 In
east, and 80 in the south districts. I. al
.1.a.,t week the births of 726 boys and 677 girls' 111
1,403 children, were registered in London. °ra";
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the sve-
numbr ws 1,377.
At e a
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the reseessio
height of the barometer in the week was 29,731 iAbicb
The mean temperature of the week was 61.3 deg.,
0.7 deg. below the temperature of the same rie— °
it
is 110
an average of 38 years. The highest temperature °'tlio
week was 78.5 deg., and occurred on SuudeY ;Asp
lowest, which was 51.0 deg.,Tloll
occurred on doe
The mean dew point temperature was 57.1 deg., ll' ore
d rence between this and the mean air temPeTerio
was 4 2 deg. The highest reading of the thermome- the
the sun was 100 deg. on Sunday. The temperature of
wateri of the Thames was 65 deg. The wind bienro
in
nie south-west. Rain to the amount of 1.99 inori es
the week, of which so much as 1.15 inches
Thursday.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLISOO
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ROI
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY
Zymotic Diseases ................................• 48 48

Diseases of Uncertain Seat ..............................
Tubercular Diseases .....................................
D. ......

Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ........
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ............ "i
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organ°
Respiration ..,..._..
....................................
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Orel 71
of Digestion
-•

Disease; of the Kidneys, &c. .........................
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus,&c. .............. • 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ..... ••••
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ............................... S

Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy

••• Y•

Old Age
Sudden ........................................................ 56°
V. . _

, iolence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance..-- .
Causes not specified .. . .................................. '•,
1 36
DEATIIS FROM ALL CAIJSRS ..................... ,01
Vny
Population Deaths in corre- in ;,
Enumerated. eponding week il
Isf:l. of 1854. 14
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males

1,219

Females..