The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-29 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-Generar TPeekly Return)
Tho mortality of London is still much in excess.
In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths
were 1,408, and showed hardly any decrease on the
return of the previous weEk. The average number
of deaths for the corresponding week in each of the
last ten years-1853 62, after correction for in-
creasing population, was 1 286 ; and the return of
last week was, therefore, greater by 122 than it
would have been if the rate of mortality had been
equal to the average. The births were 555 more
than the deaths. There were 65 deaths from small-
pox last week. The mortality from this disease,
which rose considerably in the beginning of the
present month, has varied little during the last
three weeks. There were comparatively few deaths
from it in the districts on the south side of the river.
None were recorded in the week in the Holborn
and Clerken well districts, and none in Shereditch,
Camberwell, Greenwich, or Lewisham. There were
7 deaths from smallpox in the district of St. George,
Hanover• square, 6 i❑ Westminster. 4 in St. Giles,
4in St. Botolph. In a house, 12, Pell-street, St.
George-in-the East, 7 persons are or have been
suffering from smallpox. The registrar of the sub-
district (St. Mary) had been informed that it was
particularly prevalent among German sugar-bakers
and their families. There were 65 deaths from
scarlatina (the same number as that of smallpox), 4
of which were in St. Botolpb, and 9 in the district
of Whitechapel. Measles was fatal in 58 cases, 10
of which occurred in Chelsea, 6 in the Trinity sub-
district of Newington.

A woman died from typhus at 7, York-place, Sr.
Martin-in-the-Fields, and also another woman at
15, York-place. Mr. Leonard, surgeon and regis-
trar, states that these persons were sisters•in-law ;
that " the house, 15, York•place, is the worst in the
parish, and that he has sent six cases to the Fever
Hospital from a room under the tiles." He adds,
" I had to get out on the roof, cross the leads, and
get through a hole about three feet square, the only
means of ingress."

Seven murders were registered in the week.
Last week the births of 958 boys and 1,005 girls,
in all 1,963, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1853-62 the ave-
rage number (corrected) was 1,933.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.895 in.
On the last two days the mean was above 30 in.
Ti e reading fell to 29.52 in. on Wednesday, and
rose to 30.25 in. on Friday. The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 50.2 deg., which is 3
deg. above the average of the same week in 43 yesrs
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The lowest night
temperature was 33.6 deg., on Sunday. The highest
day temperature was 69.3 deg., on the following day.
The range of temperature in the week was, there-
fore, 35.7 deg. The mean daily range was 24.6
deg. The highest reading of a thermometer in the
sun occurred on Sunday, end was 106 4 deg. The
difference between the mean dew-point temperature
air temperature was 7.2 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 77, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The air was very dry
on Thursday and Friday. The wind blew gene-
rally from the south-west till Wednesday afternoon,
after which it was in the north-west. Rain fell
only to the hundredth part of an inch. The mean
of the ,highest temperatures of the water of the
Thames was 56,1 deg. ; and the lowest was 63.9