The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-25 00:00:00

posed of.

THE PUBLIC LIGHTS IN THE CITY.
Mr. R. J. CHAPLIN, one of the members of the
Court of Common Council for the ward of Alders-
gate-street, with Mr. NORMAN, attended on behalf
of a number of the inhabitants of the ward in
reference to the lighting of the public lamps, refer-
ring specially"to several lamps in Little Britain.
The latter gentleman stated that some of the lamps
in the thoroughfare mentioned had lately upon
several evenings gone out, and the street had been
left in comparative darkness.
In answer to one of the commissioners, it was
stated that the carbnretting process was applied to
the lamps which had gone out, and no complaints
had been made in respect of the lamps where the

process was not applied.
The CHAIRMAN said that perhaps the better
course would be that the complaint should be re-
ferred to the General Purposes Committee, who
had the whole supply of gas to the City under
consideration at the present moment. (Hear.)
Dr. ABRAHAM concurred in the suggestion of the
chairman. He thought it was perfectly clear that
during the night the gas supplied to the public
lamps was lowered to a very serious extent, and
he could not but help thinking that this practice
was a very dangerous one, and was calculated to
lead to very serious results.
Mr. Deputy WHITESIDE reminded the Court
that only three feet of gas per hour was sup-

plied to these lamps where the carburetting pro-
cess was applied, while five feet per hour was
supplied to the other lamps. The act of the gas
companies in turning off the supply during the
night would therefore of course operate more
strongly upon the former lamps. (Hear.)
Mr. PRICKER thought it was to be lamented
that the gas company and the carburetting
company could not work harmoniously, and
until this end could be brought about there must
be continual complaints of the imperfect lighting of
the public lamps.
The motion was then put and agreed to.
THE TRAMWAY BILL.

Mr. JOSEPH DAW, the principal clerk, read a re-
port from the Improvement Committee, to whom
this bill had been referred for consideration. Being
of opinion that the question of allowing a public
company for purposes of pecuniary gain to lay down
iron or other trams within the streets of the City
involved very important considerations, they recom-
mended the Ceurt to petition Parliament against
the bill. •
The report was agreed to, and the petition in
opposition to the bill was at once signed.
SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY.

Dr. LETHEBY, the medical officer of health, re-
ported on the state of 166 houses that had been in-
spected during the week, and he submitted a list of
64 places for sanatory improvement. He likewise
reported that the markets and slaughter-houses had
been duly visited, and that the officers had seized
1,554 lbs. of meat as unfit for human food. It con-
sisted of six sheep, two pigs, eight quarters of beef,
and 17 joints of meat-161 lbs. were diseased, 607
lbs. were putrid, and 786 lbs. were from animals
that had died from natural causes. All of it were
destroyed. The medical officer informed the com-
missioners that on Saturday last three persons from
Leicester—namely, George Warrens, Daniel Cotton,
and George Hills, were tried at the Old Bailey and
convicted, for having sent diseased and unwhole-
some meat to Newgate-market, and that they were
severally sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
The judge notified that if this punishment was not
found to have the effect of checking the practice of
sending diseased meat to the London markets it
would be increased. Sixty-seven births and forty
deaths were registered in the City during the week.
The latter are below the average (47) for the cor-
responding week of the last six years ; 18, or nearly
half, of the deaths were among children of less than
five years of age, and only seven among persons of
60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as
follows :—Phthisis, 5 ; bronchitis, 2 ; mesenteric
disease, 3; continued fever, 2 ; scarlet fever, 1 ;
whooping cough, 1; and measles, 8. These are
the most prevalent of the zymotic diseases.
Some other business was transacted, and the
Court adjourned.

HEALTH OF LONDON DET.RING THE WEEK.

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

The deaths in-London in the week that ended last
Saturday, the third week in June, were 1,104; and
the rate of mortality has been remarkably uniform
during the four weeks that have elapsed since the
third week of May. The mean temperature of the
air was lower last week than it had been any of
the four weeks that preceded it.
The mortality from typhus was less last week
than it has been in any other week during a very
long period. The deaths from it declined from
about SO to 49. Of this latter number,
returned by the London Fever Hospital. A man
cook, aged 57 years, died of typhus after eight days'
illness, at 4, Lower Keate-street, Spitalfields, in
which house it is stated that five cases of typhus,
two of which were fatal, have occurred since March.
There were four deaths from smallpox, 45 from
measles, 44 from scarlatina, 12 from diphtheria, 15
from croup, 24 from whooping-cough, 20 from

diarrhcca.
Phthisis (or consumption) was fatal in 151 cases,
the corrected average being 155. Bronchitis was 1
fatal in 64 cases, pneumonia in 47.
Four children died by murder or manslaughter.
years died from
A man aged 36 boils followed by
erysipelas, that extended over the head and down
the pharynx and larynx. A woman died of urti-
caria. A man lost his life by taking an overdose
of the tincture of aconite.

The oldest person whose death appears in the
week's returns is a man who had attained the age
of 94 years.

Last week the births of 942 boys and 671 girls,
in all 1,913 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-
61 the average number (corrected) was 1,824.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.700 in.
The reading was 29.46 in. on Sunday, the 15th,
rose to 29.96 in. on Thursday, and fell to 29.57 on
Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the
week was 54.9 deg.,which is 4.6 deg. below the ave-
rage of the sameweek in 43 years,as determined byMr.
Glaisher. The weather was cold for the season. The
mean daily temperature was below the L verage on
every day. There was rain on every day ; the total
quantity measured was six-tenths of an inch, more
than half of which fell on Sunday. The wind was
chiefly in the N.W. or other northerly directions;
night
On Sunday it blew from the west. The lowest
temperature occurred on Sunday, the 15th,
as
45.5 deg. The highest day temperature wafs
ttivino
deg., and occurred on Tuesday. The range o -
perature in the week was 23.8 deg. The mean y
range was 16 6. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 6-1
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was