The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-18 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Rvistrar7G4eb-ne. rats Weelf y Return.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, May 13, the
births in London and ten other large towns of the United
Kingdom were 3,307 : the deaths 2,453. Tho annual rate
of mortality in the week in those eleven towns was 22 per
1,000 persons living, and was lower than in the two pre-
vious weeks, when the rates were 25 and 24 respectively.

In London the births of 1,008 boys and 991 girls, in all
1,999 children, were registered in the week. In the corre-
sponding weeks of ten years, 1855-64, tho average number
corrected for increase of population, was 1,971.

The deaths in London in the same period were 1,167.
The average number for the nineteenth week in ten years
(corrected) is 1,306.. Tho deaths in the present return are
less by 139 than the average number.
This is the healthiest season of the year in London, and
the mortality in May is generally low. The actual morta-
lity in the two last weeks is much below the low average.
If the London boards put the great sewers in communica-
tion with every house, and if every family get a supply of
pure water from the companies, while the population itself
does its duty in promoting cleanliness of person, house,
and street, the mortality in summers to Como will not be
excessive.

Two hundred and thirty-two persons died from zymotic
diseases, the corrected average number being 295. Eight
deaths occurred from small-pox, 18 from measles, 22 fro.n
scarlatina, 5 from diphtheria, 27 from whooping-cough,
and 49 from typhus.

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Phthisis proved fatal to 151 persons, 96 deaths occurred
from bronchitis, 54 from pneumonia, and 67 from diseases
of tho heart.

The son of a publisher's assistant, 11 years, died on the
Bth May, at Dean's-court, Old Bailey, from hydrophobia,
having been bittenby a. clog in Holborn about threemonths
previously. A female, aged 22 years, employed at lead
works, Limehouse, died on the bth May, at 4, Garden-
plate, Stepney, from lead colic. A chemical labourer, aged
52 years, died on the 11th May, at Lombard-road, Batter-
sea, from lead poisoning. A painter, aged 26 years, died
on the 7th May, at 2, Church-street, Chelsea, from lead
colic. A tool dealer, aged 60 years, was found dead, on the
26th April, at 20, Lamb-gardens, Bethnal-green, from dis-
ease of lungs, accelerated by privation.
The rate of mortality last week was 20 per 1000 in Lon=
don, 24 in Edinburgh, and 22 in Dublin, 31 in Liverpool,
27 in Manchester, 19 in Salford, 18 in Birmingham, 23 in
Leeds, 21 in Bristol, 25 in Hull, and 29 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 39 per 1000 during the week ending
the 29th ult., when the temperature was 3.7 deg. Fahren-
heit higher than in the same week in London, where the
rate was 23 per 1000.
In Liverpool the births wore 374, the deaths 281; in
Manchester the births 221, the deaths 182 ; in Salford the
births 74, the deaths 40 ; in Birmingham the birth 253, the
deaths 115; in Leeds the births 218, the deaths 99; in Bris-
tol the births 108, the deaths 65; in Hull the births 73, the
deaths 50; in Edinburgh the births 144, the deaths 80 ; in
Glasgow the births 357, the deaths 238; and in Dublin the
births 145, the deaths 136. There were 420 deaths in Vienna
during the week ending the 29th ult.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.639. The barometri-
cal reading decreftsed from 29.90 in. at the beginning of
the week to 29.35 in. on Wednesday. The moan tempera-
ture of the air in the week was 50.7 deg., which is 0.7 deg.
below the average of the same week in 50 years (as deter-
mined by Mr. Welsher). The highest day temperature
was 70 deg. on Tuesday. The lowest night temperature
was 38.9 deg. on Monday. The entire range of tempera-
ture in the week was therefore 31.1 deg. The mean of the
highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 59.3
dog. ; that of the lowest was 58.2 dog. The difference be-
tween the mean dew-point temperature and air tempera-
ture was 5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air
was 84, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain
fell to the amount of 2.69 in., which is equivalent to a fall
of 272 tons of rain per acre. The direction of the wind
I was variable.