The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-09 00:00:00

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HEALTH OF LONDON,

(Front the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The mortality of the week ending Saturday last is higher
than it was in the ten cities of the kingdom. The births
were 4,196 ; the deaths were 3,557 in the week ; and the
average rate of mortality was 84 per 1,000.
The rate was 31 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 37 in
Dublin, 42 in Liverpool, 35 in Manchester, 31 in Salford,
30 in Birmingham, 38 in Leeds, 30 in Bristol, 44 in Glasgow.
A highrate of mortality consequent on the late inclement
weather prevails in London. In the week that ended on
Saturday last the deaths of 1773 persons were registered ;
in the previous week the number was 1747. In the corres-
ponding weeks of 10 years, 1855-64, the average number of
deaths is, with a correction for increase of population, 1530.
The deaths in the present return, theref3re, exceed by 243
the estimated number.

Three hundred and seventy deaths occurred last week
from zymotic diseases, the corrected average number being
324. Typhus was fatal to 95 persons, a number consider-
ably above the average, which is 52. Whooping cough
destroyed the lives of 86 children; 6 of these cases were
registered in the sub-district of St. Paul, St. George's-in-
the-East, and 4 in that of St. George-the-Martyr, Holborn.
Sixteen deaths occurred from small-pox, 28 from measles,
46 from scarlatina, and 5 from diphtheria.
Five hundred persons died, from diseases of the respira-
tory organs (exclusive of phthisis), the corrected average
number being 381. Bronchitis proved fatal to 339 persons,
of whom 163 were above sixty years of age. One hundred
and two deaths Occurred from pneumonia, 180 from phthisis,
78 from disease of the heart, and 178 from diseases of the
brain and nervous system.

Thirty-two deaths were caused by accidents. Eleven
persons died from fractures or contusions, 10 from burns
or scalds, and 7 from suffocation. Four persons committed
suicide. A needlewoman, aged 37 years, died on the
30th January, at 15A, Skidmore-street, Mile-end, from
suffocation produced by food entering the windpipe. A
tobacconist, aged 55 years, was found dead on the 17th
January, at 11, Braithwaite-place, Kensington, from pneu-
monia, accelerated by his denying himself the necessaries
of life. A dock labourer, aged 56 years, died on the
24th January, in the Rhodeswell-road, Stepney, from ex-
posure to cold. Two persons were killed by vehicles in the
streets.

The deaths of seven nonagenarians were recorded ; the
eldest was a men who had attained the ago of 97 years.
Last week the births of 1,175 boys and 1,102 girls, in all
2,277 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor-
responding weeks of the'years 1855-6 the average number
(corrected) was 2,115.
At the Royal Observatdry, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.144 in. The barome-
trical reading was 29.85 in. at the beginning of the week,
and decreased to 28.75 in. on Wednesday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 39.3 deg., which is 1.3
deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature
was 52.1 deg. on Thursday. The lowest night temperature
was 19.9 deg. on Sunday. The entire range of temperature
in the week was therefore 32.2 deg. The mean of the
highest temperatures of the water of the Thamels-tis
36.4 deg. ; that of the lowest was 34.8 deg.
differ-
ence between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 2.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity
of the air was 91, complete saturation being rceriesseeqnteuid-
by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.43 in. vhi
valent to a fall of 44 tons of rain per acres. 'The wind. blew
chiefly from S.W. and S,S.E. The r,ain-fall ranged in the
10 cities from 30 tons per acre in Edinburgh to 215 tons
per acre in Glasgow.