The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-19 00:00:00

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.

(Frani the Registrar General's nckly Report,)
Fourteen hundred and twenty-nine deaths were
registered in London in the week that ended last
Saturday. The wintry cold and fogs of a week in
which the mean temperature of the nir was nearly
7 degrees below the average raised the deaths about
200 above the mean of the two preceding weeks.
The deaths in the last three weeks have been 1184,
1307, and 1429. The mean temperature in the
same period was 46,8 deg., 44.9 deg., and 37.3 deg.
The average number of deaths in the correspond-
ing weeks of ten years (1852-61) becomes, after
correction for increase of population, 1323. The
deaths last week were more numerous by a hundred
than they would have been if the average rate of
mortality in the second week of November had
prevailed.
Pulmonary diseases, exclusive of phthisis, were
183 and 197 in the two previous weeks ; last week
they rose to 283. The deaths from whooping-
cough in the same three weeks were 29, 28, 40 ;
those from phthisis were 119, 152, and 166. The
increase in the mortality of last week has arisen
chiefly from bronchitis and pneumonia.
Small-pox was fatal in 13 cases, and three of
these occurred in the St. John sub-district of St.
George-in-the-East. Scarlatina was fatal in 100
cases, 4 of which occurred in St. Mary Paddington,
4in Chelsea North-west sub-distict, 4 in Cripple-
gate, 4 in St. Peter Walwortb, 8 in Kennington,
and 7 in the district of Bethnal-green. Eight
children died of measles in Islington, 6 in Hoxton.
It is said there has been much typhus in certain
houses in Everard-street, St, George-in-the East
in
Last week the births of 928 boys and 976
girls,
all 1,904 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the
years 185261
the average number (corrected) was 1806.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.659 in.
The reading fell to 29.22 in. on Monday, and rose to
29.98 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 37.3 deg., which is 6.5 deg.
below the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tem-
perature was below the average on every day after
Sunday; and on Tuesday and the three following
days the amount of depression was from 9 deg. to
12 deg. The highest day temperature was 53.1 deg.
on Sunday ; the lowest night temperature was 24.9
deg., or 7.1 deg, below the freezing point of water
on Friday. The range of the thermometer in the
week was, therefore, 28.2 deg. The difference be-
tween the mean dew-point temperature and air tem-
perature was 2.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity
of the air was 91, complete saturation being repre-
sented by 100, which point was nearly attained on
the last two days. The wind was in the south-west
till Tuesday afternoon, after which it blew chiefly
from a northerly point. There was no rain measured
except on the first two days, when the amount was
less than two-tenths of an inch. There was dense
fog on Tuesday night ; and on Thursday
been
equalledafternoon
fog prevailed of a density that has not,
for several years. There was hoar
meanar fro
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stfotnhuiegshdenyst,
Wednesday, and Thursday. The
temperatures of the water 44 04f
deg. the Thames was 47.2
deg.; that of the lowest •

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