The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly .Return,)
onTshaetunrumdaybewr ofas drot2liss, inofLwohincicohn
years of age, 447 at 20 and under 60 years, and 295114
years of age and upwards, The average number lather:o
week of ten years 1864-63 with a correction for the 0
of population, 1,364. The mi.; of mortality is thereforll
high for the season, the actual nAmber of deaths eV*.
7in6sthoeccwurreekedtilaunt:rl
by 159 the number calculated on past experience.
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Nineteen deaths were referred to stWall-pox, 55 to %cid
41 to scarlatina, 13 to diphtheria, 60 tcr wh°°Ping-eAgig
59 to typhus. Six children died of meas.'es
ton let sub-district. In the Green sub-dis "lot °f,,.,13i 00+
green, there were 3 deaths from measles, 2 ft ern Bv"-;dir
2 from diphtheria,and 2 from typhus; in the tee
trict there were five deaths from scarlatina. nco.
There were five deaths from in • h a
jury by orse tIO
the 01:11101,
Seven persons died at the age of 90 years and urry4l—,.;
oldest of whom were two widows at tne age of 95 Yell'-;20,
Four children died of scarlatina in one fitall
To wnshend-road, Marylebone, three on the 10th 9.11 u
on the 11th inst.
oureroged 50 years, died in St. Luke's
A lab • Worltit6
on the 17th of March, of "typhus with destitution. tot
A watch finisher, aged 68 years, was found dead on
34 instant at 22, Lower Northam ton-street, Clerk
from eelc
effusion on the brain, accelerated by want of food oli
Last week the births of 1,039 boys and 933 girls, war,
1,972 children, were registered in London. In the "11;0
responding weeks of the years 1864-63 the average MI
(corrected) was 2,029.
METROPOLITAN WATERS IN MARLS, 1864. to lbe
analyses
eses
o watersfnorf. Londonitobert
Dduring s ATlharocmhs,ona,ccoFt..dltilliabor,r:
been much more impure than in the preceding "'
especially in reference to the amount of matters of Orli
origin which they contain. These have been obvielisit
washed down by the rains from the surface drainitte; °hied
is found that after heavy rain drains and sewers are f1e13.-hei;
and tLese deposits carried into the rivers which real" of ;
outfall. For the sake of comparison the composition

well is given nontaining ouch sewage. aIIOO
Total impurity „vit .
per gallon.
„Apra'
gra. or deg. 5-- 04
Distilled Water O-0
Loch Katrine water, new supply •603,
to Glasgow 215 .6e,
Manchester water supply 313 jlii
Well, Newton, Wisbeach 85.84
THAMES COMPANIES. 0
Southwark
Lambeth
Grand Junction 22'08 0
West Middlesex 2 v4l 0

Chelsea
OTHER COMPANIES. 2•28
Kent
East London
New River
4.inew,,, a,
The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water COni•—itap
gallon 2•3; degrees or grains of foreign ;natter in _
of which •605 degrees or grains are of vegetable Or
origin. , VI • 14

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the ise°:(lks
of the barometer in the week was 29.800 in. The
Ta
was 30.05 in on Sunday, and fell to 29.54 in on Fri" 81;
mean temperature of the air in the week was 48'9 deg
is 3.6 deg above the average of the same week iu
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher). On three der "le off
daily temperature was from 6 deg to 8 deg eb°",„--
rage. The lowest night temperature was 334 deg.
nesday. The highest day temperature was 68'6 deg °-"1/111
day. The range in the week was therefore 35'1 detest)!
mean daily range was 18.5 deg, The difference bet 11
mean dew-point temperature and air teraperature,i4 cetir
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
pieta saturation being represented by 100, whiellP(3-1.
nearly approached on Saturday, though on the claq:oftill
the humidity had fallen to 61. The general direett°,
wind was northerly, on the first three days; on Whet
and Thursday it was east, and afterwards satires; 110
south-west. The rain in the week was only 0.08 inciiogi,
mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the
was 51.2 deg; that of the lowest 48.1 deg.