The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-09 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON,

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
In the week that ended last Saturday the births
in London and nine other cities or boroughs of the
United Kingdom were 4,227 ; -the deaths 2,995.
The annual rate of mortality in the week in those
ten large towns was 28 per 1,005 persons living,
and was much less than in the previous week, when
it was 31.

In London the births of 1,125 boys and 1,117
girls, in all 2,242 children, were registered. In cor-
responding weeks of ten years, 1855-64, the average
number, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, was 2,115.

The deaths in London returned for the week
were 1,482, against a corrected average (for the
ninth week of the year), of 1,489. The actual num-
ber was, therefore, almost the same as that obtained
by calculation.

Eighty-one deaths were referred to. whooping-
cough, and 67 to typhus. Four fatal cases of the
latter disease occurred in the Kensington Town
sub-district ; 18 were returned by the London
Fever Hospital in Islington.
Bronchitis continues to decline. In the week
that ended February 4 it rose to 339 fatal cases ; in
that which ended March 4 the number was 206.
Eleven persons were registered as having been
killed by horse conveyance.
Seven persons died at. the age of 90 years and up-
wards. The oldest was 96 years of age, and was a
pensioner of the Greenwich Hospital.
A horsekeeper died of glanders after 9 weeks' ill-
ness, in King's College Hospital.
A labourer died in Shoreditch workhouse, aged 55
years, from bronchitis, accelerated by want and
exposure.

A boy, aged 9 years, died at 4, Ashfield-place, in
the Ratcliff sub-district, from diseased lungs, acce-
lerated by privation.

A labourer died from " poisoned condition of
blood," in consequence of being employed in white
lead works.

In Liverpool the births were 393, .the deaths 319
in Manchester the births, 286, the deaths 206 ; in
Salford the births 95, the deaths 66 ; in Birming-
ham the births 247, the deaths 147 ; in Leeds the
births 200, the deaths 129 ; in Bristol the births
113, the deaths 81; in Edinburgh the births 94, the
deaths 99 ; in Glasgow the births 384, the deaths
310 ; in Dublin the births 169, the deaths 157 ; and
in Vienna in the week ending the 28th ult. the
deaths were 359, when the temperature was 33.1
Fahrenheit, or 5.2 deg. lower than in London
during the same week.
The rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 in Lon-
don, 30 in Edinburgh, and 32 in Dublin, 35 in
in Liverpool, 30 in Manchester, 31 in Salford, 23 in
Birmingham, 30 in Leeds, 20 in Bristol, and 38 in
Glasgow. in Vienna the rate was 33 in the week
ending the 25th ult., when the rate in London was
28 per 1,000.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.749 in.
The reading fell to 29.36 in. on Tuesday, and rose
to 30.18 in. on Friday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 42.1 deg., which is 2 deg.
above the average of the same week in 50 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day
temperature was 52.7 deg. on Tuesday. The lowest
night temperature was 30.9 deg. on Saturday. The
mean daily range was 12.9 deg. The difference
between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 5.3 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 82, complete saturation
being represented by 100. On Sunday the humidity
almost reach saturation, having been 97. The wind
was in the south-west on the first three days ; on
the next three in the north-west ; and on Saturday
again in the south-west. There was rain on three
days and the whole fall was 0.32 in.