The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-14 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The total number of deaths registered in London in the
week that ended on Saturday was 1,258. Tho average num-
ber in the corresponding weeks of 10 years (1853-62), after
the omission of deaths from epidemic cholera in the 41st of
1854, and a correction for increase of population, becomes
1,126. The actual result exceeds the estimated number by
132.

Thirty •one deaths from smallpox were returned, and 146
from scarlatina; 16 fatal cases of the latter disease occurred
in Marylebone, 14 in Islington, 5 in the sub-district of
Whitecross-street, and 5 in that of St. Mary Magdalen,
Bermondsey.

A man died at the age of 9G years, a woman aged 77 years
died of elephantiasis, and a boy 5 years old from swallowing
a cherry stone.
METROPOLITAN WATERS IN SEPT., 1863.

Some of the waters used for domestic purposes in London,
according to the analyses of Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson,
F.R.S., have been purer, while others have contained more
foreign ingredients than in the preceding month. The Kent
Company's water has been distinguished by the organic
matter bang nearly all oxidised, and therefore comparatively
harmless. The Thames waters have been generally less
impure than in August.

Total impurity Organicim-
per gallon. purity.
gra. or deg. grs. or deg.
Distilled Water
Loch Katrine water, new supply
to Glasgow 2.35 •605
Manchester water supply
Aldg-ate-pump, City 19'12 13.94
• THAMES COMPANIES
Chelsea _ 17.08 1.80

Southwark

Grand Junction 16,18 1.12
'West Middlesex 16.01 1.16
Lambeth
OTIIER COMPANIES.

Kent
East London
New River

The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the
gallon 2.35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution,
of which •605 degrees or grains arc of vegetable or animal

Last week the births of 962 boys and 911 girls—in all,
1,863 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor-
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,818.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.600 in. The reading
rose to 29.88 in on Monday, and fell to 29.38 in on Friday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 53.3 deg,
which is 1 deg above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). On Tuesday the
mean temperature was 7.7 deg below the average of that
day ; on Thursday and Saturday it was nearly as much
above the average. The highest day temperature was 66.5
deg on Sunday. The lowest night temperature was 37.5 deg
on Tuesday. The range of temperature in the week was
therefore 29 deg. The mean daily range was 12.6 deg.
The difference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 4 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 87, complete saturation being re •
presented by 100, which point was almost attained on Wed-
nesday. On Sunday and Monday the wind was generally
in the south-west ; in thereat of the week south-east. The
rainfall was 0.44 in., which fell on five days. At 23 minutes
past 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning a slight shock of earth-
quake was felt. One of the astronomical assistants was
observing a fixed collimator, and saw the mark apparently
descend through an angle of less than a quarter of a minute
of arc, and rise again after a few seconds of time to its
former position. No trace of the earthquake was left on
the photographic records of the self-registering magneto-
meters. There was a thunderstorm on the morning of
Thursday. Lightning
was very frequent on Friday evening.