The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-18 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar General's Report.)
In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths
in London were 1,346. The deaths of persons at
60 years of age and upwards were almost the same
in number as those of the previous week, but tinier
20 years of age they rose from 659 to 690.
The average number of deaths in the weeks of ten
years (1853-62) corresponding with last week is,
with a correction for increasing population, 1,407.
The number in the present return is less by 61 than
it would have been if the average rate of mortality
for the second week of February had prevailed.
The births in last week exceeded the deaths by
762.

Measles declined towards the end of January,
and it continues less fatal than it was in autumn or
at the beginning of this year. Scarlatina has also
become rather less fatal ; the deaths from it in
the week were 69. Typhus (including typhoid fever,
&c.) numbered 63 and 45 deaths respectively in the
last two weeks. In Somers-town there were 4 fatal
cases of scarlatina, and the same number in Peck-
ham ; alsu 7in the district of Whitechapel. The
total number of deaths from smallpox was 23,
almost one-half of which occurred in the east dis-
trict.
The mean temperature of the air, which had been
45 deg. in the previous fortnight, declined to 401
deg. The deaths from phthisis rose from 142 and
125 to 156; those from pneumonia from 54 and 62
to 69; those from bronchitis were 159, and exhibited
hardly any variation.
Six nonagenarians died in the week, the oldest of
wnom was a man aged 98 years. Besides these, a
centenarian, a widow, died of apoplexy at 18, Dun-
stan's-road, Mile-end, on the 11th February. She
attained the age of 100 years on the 15th of Jan.--
a fact which is stated by the Registrar to be well
authenticated. She survived her husband three
weeks.
Four deaths from various causes have ocurred
within a fortnight in the house, 57, London-street,
Tottenham-court-road.
Last week the births of 1,092 boys and 1,016 girls,
in all 2,108 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1853-62
the average number (corrected))wa9B6.
At the Royal Observatory, reenwi sl,
ch, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.170 in.
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after _
day, and rose to 30•52 in. on Friday, which is the
meansutlday readingrhe
1861. The mean temperature of the air in the week
highest point observed since the 2d of
,
was 40.7 deg., which is 2.1 deg. above the average
of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
thereforeday The
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Glaisher) the lowest night temperature .was 29°8
deg. on Monday, and 29.7 deg. on Friday. The
highest day temperature was 49.1 dog. on
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A GOOD iliNT.—Send your Mire child to bed
happy. Whatever cares press, give it a warm good-right
kiss as it goes to its pillow. The memory of this, in the
stormy years which fate may have in store for the little
one, will be like Bethlehem's star to the bewildered ahep-
herds.

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