The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-02 00:00:00

STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The health of the population generally has been bad ;
and the uvrtality has greatly exceeded the average.
134,605 death's have been registered, which is 20,000 in
excess of the corrected average of the winter quarters.
This addition to the ordinary mortality of winter, which
is in England the most fat Al season, is referable to the
low temperature, with the consequent hard times,
against which it is difficult for the waee classes to crake
an adequate provision ; and in other countries, where
there is no snob system of relief as is administered
under the Engiidh poor law, the suffering and the mor-
tality are touch greater in severe seasons than they are
in England.

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

( From the Report of the Reyistrae•General. )

In the week"that ended on Saturday the number of
deaths riTist,red in London was 1,132. This is rather
more than the r:umber of the previous week ; but the
la two returns t 0;,,, they afford sufficient pro-if that the
public In a!th is a ivahcing to a up re satisfactory state.
In the ten corres;•firlirg w eks of the years 1845-54 the
avv,,ave murder of deaths was I,OOG. That the actual
number may be compared with the average, 100 should
a,hl.-st t, the latter, to allow for increase i population ;
and the comparison will then show that Vie mortality
of last week did not'much exceed the ( r iit.ary mortality
at th,'etol of Atoll

Diseases, ol th, respiratory or4ans grow less prevalent
and fa a', and to this rilerimstanef, chiefly the decreae
of the total Excluding phthisis and
cnugh, that class of disea.es which, when the
we:fiber was cold, cawed 433 deaths in a week, prc-
duced in the last three weeks 282. 222, :ind 190, show-
ing a steady decrease. Phthisi4 was fatal in 176 casks
I •st we,-k, a numl)er as treat as that which usually n;..-
enrred the &nth of winter. 1-I,mping cutigh, which
carried off 50 children in erich of the tast two weeks,
prevails leiq, than it oid. Tue mortality from zymotie
disea..es, in the aggregate,- is near the usual amount, 30
deaths are ref.rred to small-pox, 15 to measles, 45 to
se •rlatina. Five from the last-inentinaed disease oc-
curred in Woolwich, 3 in FeektrAtn, and 3 in Kensing-
ton.

Last week the births of 892 boys and 864 girls, in all
1,756 children, were regi.ted in Lo.,d,in. In the ttn
correspondin!: wetks of the years 1845 54, the average
number wag 1 495.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30'140 in. The
mean reading waQ above 30 in. on every day except Satur-
day. At the beginning of the week the hight,t reading
occurred, arid was 30 40 in. The mean temperature of
the week was 44 deg., which is 4•5 deg. below the ave-
rage of the same week in 38 years. Tne mean•tempera-
tire was below the average an every day except Tues-
day, when it hardly exceeded the average. The coldest'
day was ti"un iay (die 221), when the mean temperature
was 39.4 deg.,. which was 7.6 deg, below t; e average.
and the lowt-st temp.:rature occurred on that day, and
was 29.6 deg. The highest temperature in the week
was 68'0 deg., and occurred on Tuesday, and the lowest
on the same day was 29.7 deg., nearly the lowest in the
week. and showieg a range of 38.3 deg. The mean
dew-point temperature was 37'3 deg., and the mean
difference between this and the mean temperature at
-the air was 61 deg. The wind blew from the iii.rth and
north-east ; and no rain fell except a relight shower on
the morning of Saturday. On that day the temperature
of the air was 58 deg. at noon, and fell 10 deg. by three
o'clock.