The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-28 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING, THE WEER.

(From the _Report of the .Registrar-General. )
Thirteen hundred and .ighty-three persons, namely,
701 males and 682 females, died in London in the week
that endediast Saturday. The public health is improving,
though the rate of mortality is still high even for March;
for there died last week 123 persons more than the num-
ber obtained by calculation from corresponding weeks
in previous years (1845-54). It does not happen usually
till April that more genial weather produces a marked
effect in the reduction of the mortality.
Diseases of the respiratory organs have been more fatal
than the zymotic, or any class in which the causes of
death are arranged. Their decrease in the last five weeks
from the point at which their mortality was greatest, is
shown in the following numbers, 434, 433, 313, 339,
and (last week) 285 deaths. The last number is higher
than usual, which is owing especially to bronchitis, the
deaths from which were 146, while the estimated num-
ber is 108. The mean temperature (33.2 degs.), about
the same as in the previous week, was 4 degs. below the
average, and the latter part of the week was remarkably
cold. Hooping-cough is prevalent, and 76 children died
of it. The total number of deaths from measles did not
exceed 20, but a third of these occurred in the workhouse
at Bethnal-green, and 4 on the same day. Scarlatina
has become less prevalent than it was in the earlier part
of the year ; the greatest number of fatal cases last
week occurred in the north districts, chiefly in Somers.
town and Kentish-town. Typhus and common fever
do not prevail more than usual ; 17 of the 49 deaths oc-
curred in the south districts. Cancer was fatal in 16
cases ; hernia in no fewer than 10 cases ; in the first
eleven weeks of this year this complaint has averaged 5.
Three persons died of intemperance.
Last week the births of 800 boys and 758 girls, in all
1,558 children, were registered in London. In the nine
corresponding weeks of the years 1845.54 the average
number was 1,535.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
IN ailing of the barometer in the week was 20,300 in.
Tho highest reading was on Monday, and was 29.85 in.
The mean temperature was on Monday, and was 29.85
in. The mean temperature was 33.2 deg., which is 3.9
deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years.
The mean daily temperature was a little above the ave-
rage till Wednesday, when it fell 4.6 deg. below it ; on
the three following days the amount of depression below
the average was from 8 deg. to near 10 deg. The
highest temperature occurred on Tuesday, and was 57'8
deg. ; the lowest on Saturday, and was 28.8 deg. The
mean dew-point temperature was 34.3 deg., and the dif-
ference between this and the mean air temperature re-
presenting the dryness of the air was 3.9 deg. The wind
blew from the south-west at the beginning of the week;
and on Wednesday and the following days it was in the
north-east and north. Rain fell on Thursday to the
amount of 0.23 in. ; the whole amount in the seven days
was 0.28 in. There was snow on Thursday.

MORTALITY IN TIIE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 24.
Zymotie Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 62
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration... 285
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the. Joints, Bores, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. 3
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy... .
Old Age .. ..................... 58
5udden........................................................ 23
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance.... 77
Causes not specifiedB

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ..................... 1,383
Population Deaths in corm. Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1551. of 1854, .
Week.
West Districts ...... 376,427
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts
485,522
South Districts
...... 346
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Totals

Males
Females.

701
682-