The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-09 00:00:00

HEALTH OP TRE METROPOLIS.

(From the Registrar-Generals Weekly Return.)
The deaths in London were above 1,400 in each of the last
three weeks of jeerthof
November; they declined to 1,376
week that ended last Saturdly. The average
deaths in ten corresponding weeks (taking the 49tnhn.wmncebreekE,sine
each of the years 1853-62) is, with a correction for: 5
of population, 1,460. The actual number is less by 4
thee that obtained by calculation.
The births in the week were more numerous than the
deaths by 419,
Smallpox was returned in 26 cases, seven of which oc-
curred to persons who were Y
Scarlatina was less fatal than it h:
period, the number recorded being
in October, BrBs old and upwards.
ber, and 119 weekly in
averaged 129 deaths weekly
o
November, and it appears to have recently still further de-
clined. lsendb.
This complaint
Lien during a long
town, 10 in Islington,
lalworth, and 4in Plumstead. A
4V
Pop-
lar,
5 in
St.
Peter's,'
child died of scarlet'a at 20, Margaret-street, Limehouse ,
bne the fourth fatal case of this disease
Five deaths from scarlatina were
5 in Bow, 4in ine were registered in Kentish-
and this is stated to
withinare referred to the head of " typhus"
Sixty-four death:
corrected average for 10 corresponding-
in the tables. T
64 there were 34 returned as typhus,
weeks is 50. Of the
gastric fever, &c.
wee
,8 as fever, S bilious, . . .
14 as typhoid
deaths—it exhibits no recrease on
in the same househ 23 days.
weekgreaternumber of
Last a
weeks. Las
the three previous .
to phthisis or any other dis-
ease in the list.
of 941 boys and 854 girls, in all
Last week the births
Bronchitis caused 155
years 1853-62 the average number
cor-
responding weeks of the
was Greenwich,297ioin .t the
Them meanean height
daily
1,795 children, were registered in London. In the 10
(corrected) was 1,867. t
awononreySk'unday and Friday, and below
29in on Wednesday. The reading fell to 28•80 in on Thurs.
e to 30'22in on Friday,
day, and rose The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 42.1 deg, which is o's deg above
reading was above
o f At
the e the
barometerßoyal
nb3stoshri
nev,
the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined
by Mr. Glaistheher)avera. On three days the
Mean temperature
was below ge; on Saturday it Was in excess by
8 below degthe . On the first three days the temperature fell
freezing point of water. The lowest was
29.8
deg on Monday. The highest was 54.2 deg on Thursday. The range of temperature in the week was, therefore',
21.4 deg. The mean daily range was 14.3 deg. The vil"n
of the high temperatures of the water of the Thames was
n
47.4 deg; that of the lowest was 45'2 deg. The difference
between the mean. dew point temperature and air
ture was 4.4 deg. The mean degree of humidity
100. The
was 85, complete saturation being represented
by 100.
in the
air was moist on the first four days. The windan_
d afterwards
south-east in the beginning of the week, . on Wednesday
chiefly in the south-west. At 3 o'clock POTO
to 22k1b to the
the pressure of the wind from of the air
N;eleV''elrock the pressure was
square foot ; and next morning
211 b, and from that time to '
6 o'clock vi
The amount of rain
almost constantly between 6 and
h fe 11 on Wednesday and
was 0.78 in, nearly all of wh
Thursday. t c-lc in the evening it was