The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-31 00:00:00

two months, " can assign no cause." One registrar makes
the following statement :—" The deaths are below the
average. In the township of Workington, containing a
population of 6,122, the deaths during the last 9 years
have averaged 42 quarterly; this quarter they are 21.
I In the other 9 townships, containing a population of
3,412, there have been only 4 deaths. Some ascribe the
decreased mortality to Providence ; others to improved
sanitary arrangements."
Various causes in operation undoubtedly contributed
to this happy result ; that if all the deaths of British
soldiers in the Crimea during the last 3 months were
added to the deaths in England, the sum would be less
by some 20,000 than the deaths registered in England
during the 3 summer months of 1854. More lives may be
saved by sanitary arrangements at home every year than
have ever perished abroad in the years of our greatest
losses in war ; and the enlightened people of this king-
dom will suffer no such embarrassment as the Registrar
of Workington has recorded if this result be realised, as
they know that all effectual measures for the improve-
ment of the human race receive the blessing, because
they are the inspirations, of Divine Providence.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

( Front the .Registrar- General's Report.)

The mortality in London is much below the usual
average rate which prevai:s within its limits. The deaths
of 903 persons were registered in the week that ended
on Saturday, Oct. 27, while the corrected average of the
corresponding weeks of the previous ten years was 1,079.
The weekly deaths would amount to 836 in London if
the annual rate of mortality did not exceed the natural
rate of 17 deaths in 1,000; so in the present week 67
deaths by unnatural causes have been recorded.
Of the 903 persons who died, 437 were under 20 years
of age, 129 were 20 and under 40, 155 were 40 to 60,
158 were 60 to 80, and 24 were 80 years cf age and up-
wards.

219 persons died of zymotic diseases, including 7 by
cholera, 10 by smallpox, 58 by scarlatina, 49 by typhus
or by the various forms of fever.

The death of the late Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies, in the Belgrave sub-district, at the age of 45, is
referred to " gastric fever and low peritonitis."
Two men died from peritonitis in St. George's Hospi-
tal, which is in the same sub district ; a baker, aged 26,
from Cheyne•walk, Chelsea, and a gilder, aged 31, from
Thomas-street, Oxford-street.

The ravages of scarlatina. in St. Pancras, where it has
caused 13 deaths, require inTestigation.
The deaths from diarrhma have fallen from 154 weekly,
in August to M, 44, 41 in October, and in the last we';4t
to 27.

Eighteen persons died of cancer, 119 of consumption,
54 of apoplexy and paralysis, 35 of diseases of the heart,
and 19 of dropsy, 105 of bronchitis and pneumonia ; 9
women died in childbirth. 27 violent deaths were re-
gistered.

In the week the births of 737 boys and 790 girls, in
all 1,527 children were registered in London. In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845.54 the average
number was 1,411.

The moon was at the full on Thursday ; the barome-
ter, which was at 30.051 inches on Monday, fell down
to 29.037 inches on Friday ; the daily mean tempera-
ture was 50.2 degrees, or 2.1 degrees above the average,
but fluctuated from 56.9 degrees to 41.1 degrees during
the week. The temperature on the grass was below the
freezing point of watk.r during two er probably three
nights. On Wednesday night the temperature of the
Thames was 12.1 degrees above the temperature of the
air. The main dew point was 47.2 degrees, aLd the
difference between that and the air 3.0 degrees. Tice
wind veered about and changed from N.W. to S.W. ;
from calm with dense fog on Monday to storm on Thurs-
day, when 235 miles of wind passed over Greenwich in
squalls blowing hard, and once with a force of 14Ibs. on
a square foot. 060 inches of rain fell on four days of
the week ; and 0.47 inches of this quantity fell on Fri-
day. Electricity was strong and positive throughout
the week. A solar halo was visible on Saturday.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 27
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
1,11 lO7
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 4O
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
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, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &e.
Malformations 1
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 3O
Causes not specified

DZATIIB PROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corm-
Enumerated. spondhig week

903
Deaths
In the

ISM. of 1854. Week
West Districts
North Districts 490,395
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
_Males
Females.

1,228 903
462
441