The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-10 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(Front the Registrar-General's Report.)
The deaths in London showed an increase in the last week
of October, when they rose to 1,409; they exhibit a further
increase for the week that ended last Saturday, the number
now returned being 1,454.
The average number of deaths in the 44th week of ten
years, 1854-03, is, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, 1,239; and there is, therefore, an excess of 215 deaths
in the present return over the estimated number.
The most prevalent of the zymotic class of diseases is
scarlatina, the deaths from which rose to 110. Next to it in
respect to mortality is typhus (including typhoid, gastric,
fever, &c.), to which 100 deaths were referred. Fifty.seven
children died of measles, no less than 10 of whom were in

the Poplar district.
Of the 110 cases of scarlatina, 4 occurred in the Belgrade
sub-district, 4 in that of St John, Westminster, 4 in the
Regent's Park sub-district, 4 in Islington East, 6 in Hag •
gereton West, sin the sub-district of St Saviour, South-
wark, 9 in the two Lambeth Church sub-district; 4 in Plum-
stead. In the last mentioned sub-district there were also 6
deaths from typhus. In the Greenwich sub-district, which
comprises Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich, there were
6 deaths from scarlatina and 8 from typhus.
The total number of deaths from diseases of the respira-
tory organs in the week was 293,being exclusive of phthisis.
The corrected average for the week is 224. This order of
complaints appears to be unusually prevalent for the begin-
ning of November. Phthisis (or consumption) was fatal in
164 cases.
A widow died aged 91 years ; another woman at the age
(as reported) of 103 years. The centenarian died on the Ist
inst. in the Bethnal-green workhouse.
A man aged G 9 years died in the London Fever Hospital
of mercurielism from Brown's gout pills.
Last week the births of 1,019 boys and 998 girls, in all
2,017 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number
(corrected) was 1,90 t.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 30•076 in. The mean
daily reading was above 30in. on ive days of the week. The
reading was 29.65 in on Sunday ; it rose to 30.32 in on Fri-
day. The mean temperature of the air in the week wasl2.4
deg, which is 3.8 deg below the average of the same week
in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glashier). The mean
daily temperature was below the average throughout the
week, and on Friday the extent of its depression was almost
9 deg. The lowest night temperature occurred on Friday,
and was 30.1 deg. The highest day temperature occurred
on the following day, and was 53 deg. The entire range of
temperature in the week was, therefore, 22.9 deg. The dif-
ference between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 4'9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of
the sir was 83, complete saturation being represented by
100. The wind blew from the north-north-east and east till
Friday afternoon, when it was in the south-west. No rain
fell, except the hundredth part of an inch on Sunday. There
were fogs on the last three days. Friday was a very cold
day, and the temperature at noon was less than 38 deg.
During the week ending the sth of November 113 births
(those of 59 boys and 54 girls) and 99 deaths (those of 51
males and 48 females) were registered within the municipal
boundaries of Dublit Its population in 1861 was 254,808,
and extended over 3,808 statute acres.

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