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point of the Aurora's day's work, being reached in
one hour and seven minutes, the distance being 20
miles. At Blackwall the numerous visitors disem-
barked and returned to town by rail.
Among the visitors on board were Vice-Admiral
Sir George Sartorius, Captain Symonds, R.N. (a
strong advocate with the Admiralty for the adoption
of the double screw principle in the Royal Navy for
some time past), Capt. Cuenskaw, the owner of the
Aurora, destining her for the China trade ; Mr.
Russel, C.E. ; Mr. Allen, R.N., of the United
Service Gazette; and other gentlemen whose names
are well known in the naval, scientific and literary

fnbjected to the test yesterday, weighing 84010.
141 b., withstood the tensile strain of 70 tons (the
Admiralty test of the largest anchor in the service).
It then showed signs of yielding at the crown and
was condemned.
The following appointments were made at the
Admiralty :—William S. Roche, surgeon, to the
Charybdis; and John J. Hayward, paymaster to
the Medina.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

:Ron the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The deaths 'in London in the week that ended
Saturday the 22d August, numbered 1,337, includ-
ing the deaths of 690, males and 647 females. 963
of the deaths occurred on the north side, and 374
on the south side of the Thames.

If a correction is made for increase of population,
it will ho found that the deaths of London at the
present are only 13 above the average derived from
ten corresponding weeks, viz , the thirty-fourth
week in each of the yearg 1853-62. It is thus ap-
parent that the health of London is not materially
affected by the prevalence of any of those virulent
diseases (if we except small-pox) which at this sea-
son of the year have been known to swell the bills
of mortality.

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The deaths from small-pox in the last si
were successively 51, 34, 43, 49, 45, and 3; weeks The
deaths from measles were 17, or 7 below the cor-
rected average; from scarlatina and diphtheria 139,
or 77 above the average ; from whooping cough,
26, or 5 below the average; from typhus, includirg
gastric, infantile, iuft tromatory, and other fevers,
61, or 13 above the average; from diarrhoea, dy-
sentery, and cholera, 205, or 83 below the average;
more than one half of the deaths which occurred
from scarlatina, typhus, and other fevers, and from
diarrhoea, occurred in the east and south districts.
Five nonagenarians died, two widows, aged 90
and 94; a single woman, aged 93, and two men,
aged respectively 90 and 93 years.
Last week the births of 912 boys and 876 girls,
in all 1,788 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1853.
62 the average number (corrected) was 1,811.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.758 in.
The reading decreased from 29.72 in. at the begin-
ning of tie week to 29.54 in. on the 17th ; increased
to 29.77 in. by 9h. a.m. on the 19th; decreased to
29.60 in. by 9h. p.m. on the same day; increased
to 30.02 in. by 9h. a.m. on the 21st, and was 29.88

in. at the end of the week. The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 58.1 deg., which is 2.9
deg. below the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest
day temperature was 76 deg., and occurred on Sun-
day. The lowest night temperature was 46 deg.,
and occurred on Friday. The range of temperature
in the week was, therefore, 30 deg. The difference
between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 9 deg. The mean humidity of the
air was 72, complete saturation being represented
by 100. The wind generally blew from the south-
west. Nearly three-tenths of an inch of rain fell,
chiefly on Monday and Wednesday.