The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-27 00:00:00

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and which was raging around them, WO
them off from- all succour for seVetal 'days,
deed,•it did not consume them altogether.
Acts as this no considerations of policy can j")
and they throw a darker shade over the lel
the Russian armies. To Voth sides !war eel
was never more :terrible than it has been
siege, which is more than equivalent to d
campaigns in the field ; and we feel con
whatever may be still before the army, t'
most, formidable privations and trials ,have
been surpassed.

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( From the Report of the Registrar-General. "SI
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In the week that ended on Saturday the deaths of 934 k 4Z
persom (namely, 466 males and 465 females) were regies'4 lat."\-4
tered in the metropolitan districts, a number what'
shows a decrease of about 100 on each of the three Pre:/k,. **.t.-s'l"7.6*
vions weeks, and indicates a satisfactory condition of thsi_
public health. In the corresponding weeks of 1350 and --- • r!,s,
1852, when the population was less than at present, tha ,
deaths were respectively 858 and 913. Except in these
instances the number of deaths in corresponding weeks 0\ ,k •
since 1846 was greater than that which appears in the
present return. In the epidemic years of 1849 and 1854
cholera had by this tithe slid* some abatement ; but in
the thiid week of Septemberin the former year it raised
the deaths .from all causes to 1,981, and in the latter
year to 2,504.
The diseases of zymotic 014.1.'1 lapter produce at this time
more than a fourth part of the mortality. Of 253 deaths
. referred to this class last week, 76 were caused by diar-
rhoea, 63 by typhus and other fever, 50 by scarlatina, 16
by hooping•cough, 11 by small-pox, 9by cholera, 7by
erysipelas, 5 by measles, 5 by croup, 5 (of which 3 oc-
curred in the Paddington workhouse) by syphilis in in.
fang, 3by dysentery, 2 thrush, 1 influenza. Diarrhoea
continues to fall rapidly, the mean weekly temperature
having also fallen considerably since the period in which
the disease attained its maximum. A case of malignant
cholera of 24 hours' duration was fatal in Victoria-street,
Ilomerton, and another case, apparently of severe char-
acter, in Waggoner's-place, Shadwell. It was mentioned
in the return for the previous week that a plumber died
on the 9th inst. of " Asaitic cholera" at 50, Market-
street, London-road ;it is now reported that the wife of a
shoemaker died of cholera on the 16th in the same house.
Fever has prevailed to some extent in the sub-district
of Mile-end Old Town Lower ; and the registrar of
Mile end New Town records the death of a child, on
which an inquest has been held, from neglect, and from
the unwholesome and overcrowded state of the house in
which it dwelt. 21-Ir. Leach adds the following remarks :
"The room in which the death occurred is only about 12
feet square, and when I saw it, was occupied by 8 persons,
all in great poverty and distress. The debris of two
houses, which had fallen doWn, nearly prevented com-
murication with it, and the court, which is over-crowded,
was in consquence of bad smells and want of pure air in
an extremely offensive condition"
Last week the births of 841 boys and 817 girls, in all
1658 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the yearn 1845-54 the average
number was 1361.