The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-07 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
In the week that ended last Saturday 1,274 deaths were
registered in London. The average number of deaths in ten
corresponding weeks (1853 62), with the omission of deaths
from cholera in the 40th week of 185 t, and with a correction
for increase of population, becomes 1,159. The present re-
turn shows an excess of 115 above the estimated number.
There were 22 fatal cases of smallpox in the week, showing
a further decrease on those of previous weeks. Scarlatina
still prevails much, and shows a tendency to increase; the
deaths from it rose to 154 last week. Five deaths from this
latter disease occurred in Kensington-town sub-district, S
in Kentish-town, 9 in Islington, 9 in Limehouse, and 7 in
St. Peter, Walworth.

Thirteen deaths from syphilitic disease were registered;
10 of these among children. Phthisis was fatal in 160 cases.
Last week the births of 1,037 boys and 898 girls, in all
1,935 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,736.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.660 in. The reading de.
creased from 30.05 in on Sunday to 29.09 in on Thursday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 52 deg,
which is 1.8 deg below the average of the same week in 43
years (as determained by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day
temperature was 63.2 deg on Wednesday. The lowest night
temperature was 35 deg on the same day. The range of
temperature in the week, and also on that day, was there-
fore 28.2 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point
temperature and air temperature was 41 deg. The mean
degree of humidity of the air was 84, complete saturation
being represented by 100. On Saturday the humidity rose
to 96. The wind blew on six days from the south west. The
rain measured was 0.78 tn.

In the 13 weeks that ended the 26th of September 17,105
deaths were registered in London. Of that number 9,821
or considerably more than half, occurred to persons under
20 years of age. The number of persons who died at 80
years of age and upwards was only 449. The diarrhoea that
prevails in summer, scarlatina, and small-pox have been
very fatal ; and as regards the two former diseases the suf-
ferers in a great proportion of cases were children.

In the healthy summer (July, August, September) of 1860,
in which the mean temperature of the air was as low as 56.8
deg., the deaths were less than 13,000; and in the summer
of 1859, when the mean temperature was as high as 62.9
deg., the deaths were 16,000. They were 17,105, as has been
stated, in the same three months of the present year, the
mean temperature of which was 59.2 deg. The excess of
last quarter over the same period of 1859 is about 1,100,
and is due to a certain extent to increase of population.
Smallpox was fatal in the quarter in 512 cases, of which
160 occurred at 20 years of age and upwards. This malady
has been unusually prevalent. But the deaths from scarla-
tina were far more numerous ; they rose to 1,519 ; and those
from diarrhoea and summer cholera were 1,938.
Tho following are sub-districts in which the deaths from
smallpox were most numerous :—Kensington-town, where
there were 17—St. Margaret, Westminster, 11--Rectory,
Marylebone, xll—Tottenham-court, 13—St. Andrew East,
16—W hitecross-stmet, 12—St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 11—
Hoxton New-town, 10—Haggerstone West, 10—Hagger-
stone East, 12—Mile-end Old-town East, 10. There were
comparatively few deaths from smallpox in the districts on
the south side of the river, as will appear when the larger
population of that division is taken into account.
Scarlatina was particularly fatal in the east districts,
, Kentish-town, Isling-
ton, Rotherhithe, and
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Diarrhoea appears to have spread with great severity
among the children of Islington, and of the sub-district of
Christchurch, Marylebone.

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