The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-09 00:00:00

HEALTH.

"In the last quarter the total number of deaths
was 140,646, being less than in the same period of
1864, when it was barely 143,600, and much greater
than in that of 1863, when it was 129,000. In
London it was 21,018; in Cheshire and Lancashire,
containing more population, 23,330. In all the 11
divisions of England the deaths were less
numerous as compared with those of the March
quarter of last year, except the tenth—namely,
the Northern counties (Durham, Northumber-
land, &c.) and the eleventh Monmouthshire
and Wales. In each of these two divisions
there was an increase. The south-eastern counties
also furnish an exception, but the numbers in the
two quarters were almost equal.
" The rate of mortality in England was 2.728
(viz., deaths to 100 personsiliving), against an average
for the quarter of 2.522. Since the March quarter
of 1855 the returns supplied no example of as high
a death rate, with the exception of that of last year,

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2.514 in the latter ; and it rose in both to nearly
the same extent above the respective averages ; the
advantage, however, falling to the towns whose in-
habitants are generally better fed, and in this im-
portant matter better fortified against the incle-
mency of the sky.
" The effect of the winter-like severity of March
doubtless remains to be read in legible characters in
the registers of the quarter now running ; and the
lateness of that unpropitious weather must be con-
sidered in any comparison between the last two win-
ters. The mean temperature of the winter of 1864
was 37.9 deg. at Greenwich, and was higher by F 4
deg. than that of last winter ; but the weather was
marked by more frequent and abrupt changes, and
as the cold was more seasonably confined to the first
two months, its effect would be apparent chiefly on
the death registers of that quarter. The deaths from
bronchitis in London in the winter quarter of 1863-5
were successively 2,217, 4,023, and 3,217.
" The following statements exhibit the progress
of scarlatina and typhus in London since 1860.
Scarlatina discovers a uniform well-marked tendency
to increase in the last six months and attains its
maximum in the December quarter, the earlier half
of the following year witnessing a decrease. It was
decidedly less fatal in 1864 than in 1863 ; while ty-
phus, after decliningin 1863, rose again in 1864. The
last quarter of the year also favours the development
of typhus, but by a law which is apparently less con-
stant.

" DEATHS IN LONDON FROM SCARLATINA.
March. June. Sept. Dec.
Yrs. Quarter. Quarter. Quarter. Quarter. Total.
1861 ... 420 ... 326 ... 467 ... 1,145 ... 2,358
1862 ... 774 ... 677 ... 841 ... 1,165 ... 3,457
1863 ... 888 ...1,055 ... 1,519 ... 1,621 ... 5,075
1864 ... 749 ... 593 ... 805 ... 1,095 ... 3,242
1865 ... 566 ...

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" DEATHS Ei LONDON PROM TYPHUS (INCLUDING
TYPHOID, CONTINUED FEVER, ilte.)
March. June. Sept. Dec.
Yrs. Quarter. Quarter. Quarter. Quarter. Total.
1861 ... 354 347 429 .. 624 ... 1,754
1862 991 —.1,015 833 .... 7OO ••• 01",'
1863 735 624 ... 652 881 ... 2,892
1864 862 783 980 ... 1,064 3,689
1865 936
" Bronchitis and pneumonia, scarlatina, fever,
and small-pox prevailed last winter both in town
and country. Zymotic diseases ravaged South
Wales, and raised the death rate in the Welsh divi-
sion to 2.951 per cent., which is higher than the rate
of London or of any other division except that of
the cotton districts. Out of 438 deaths in the sub-
district of Cardiff, 55 were by small-pox, 31 by
measles, 20 by scarlatina. Out of 128 deaths at
Llantrisant, 53 were from scarlatina. In the
lower sub-district of Merthyr Tydfil out of 303
deaths, 32 were from scarlatina, 37 from measles,
11 from small-pox, and 20 from typhus. Aberdare
returned 371 deaths, and of these 75 were from
small-pox, and 35 from scarlatina. Of 203 deaths
at Neath, small-pox caused 56, measles 31. There
were 38 deaths from Scarlatina at Llangafelach
(Swansea) out of a total number of 143. The ill-
health and the frequent deaths of the population of
the Principality appeal to the pity of every
patriotic Welshman.

" Small-pox prevailed in many other parts ; and
among these at the following places, where it was
chiefly fatal :—Tiverton, Lansdowne (Bath),
Tewkesbury, Shrewsbury, Burton-on-Trent (where
41 were from small-pox out of a total number of 185),
Aldridge (Walsall), Wednesbury (West Bromwich),
Rowley Regis (Dudley), (Birmingham, Lincoln,
Liverpool, West Derby, Prescot, Warrington, Bol-
ton, Scarborough, Easington, Chester-le-Street,
Whitehaven, Pontypool, Newport. The Registrar
of Chester-le-Street complains of great want of
cleanliness among the mining population.

" Scarlatina caused 20 out of 22 deaths at Nor-
tham, Southampton, a low-lying ground near the
lichen. Typhoid fever and scarlatina prevailed at
Ilchester, Somersetshire, where there are old dilapi-
dated hovels, overcrowded, and without drainage
or ventilation. In the sub-district of Mount Plea-
sant, Liverpool, of 1,150 deaths from all causes,
no less than 318 were from typhus, nearly 300
of which occurred in the workhouse. At Everton,
West Derby, 104 out of 775 deaths were from
typhus arid typhoid fever. In the sub-district of
Cheetham, Manchester, there was great mortality
in the workhouse at Crumpsall ; 119 deaths oc-
curred in it, 63 of which were from measles.

" The Registrar of Rillington (Mahon) writes as
follows : ' West lleslerton used to be a most
healthy village until it was drained last year ; but
it has never been free from fever since. The drain
terminated in a walled receptacle at the end of the
village, which was eniirely closed at the top, thus
throwing poisonous gases into the houses at every
back door. At a slight expense the work might
be carried into a field about 300 yards from the
spot, and the village thus cleared from what has
proved a heavy scourge to its inhabitants.'
" Taking the ten large towns in the United King-
dom, the death rate of Liverpool (borough) was
3.979 per cent. in the quarter. The next highest
rate is that of Glasgow, 3.898; Dublin, 3.431; Man-
chester, 3.414 ; Leeds, 3.203 ; Edinburgh, 3.095 ;
Birmingham, 2.874 ; Bristol, 2.813. London and
the borough of Salford showed the lowest death
rates, 2.798 and 2.796 and their rates were almost
the same.

" THE UNITED KINGDOM.

" Through the courtesy of the Registrars-Gene-
ral of Scotland and Ireland the returns can now
be given for the United Kingdom. The registered
births in the first quarter of the year were 261,175;
the deaths, 190,741. The estimated population in.
1865 is 29,897,366."

THE BLOCKADE-RUNNING FLEET.—The occupa-
tion of the blockade-runners being entirely at an
end the fleet so long and in so many cases so successfully
engaged in it aro turning their faces homeward again, and
daily we hoar of numbers of them being off the coast mak-
ing for London, Glasgow, or Liverpool. At this port we have
had our full share of them, for on glancing up the list of
vessels lying in the docks we noticed no fewer than 22 of
thorn. In the Queen's-dock wo notice the Alice, Capt. Grant,
a well-known runner of the blockade of both Charleston and
Wilmington, and which must have repaid herself to her
fortunate owners over and over again. She was one of the
most successful boats on the station. In the Sandon-dock
there is the Abigail, but she is a now steamer. Then there
is the Amy, which, if we remember right, had to put back
to this port when bound to Bermuda to begin her second
career as a blockade-runner. Another new steamer, the
Curlew, lies in the Coburg-dock, in the hands of Messrs.
Jones, Quiggin, and Co. The Confederate States, Cap_
tain Ramsey, occupies a berth on the west side of the
Birkenhead float ; from her present nom de plume, and the
changes she has recently passed through, it would be diffi-
cult to identify her with the steamer Laurel which con-
veyed the armament to the new Confederate steamer She-
nandoah, but such is indeed the case. The Caroline, Cap-
tain Hudgins, returned from Nassau and Bermuda only last
week, mating one of the fastest passages on record. Sho
is a Clyde built steamer, as is also the Emily, Capt. Egan,
in the Canada-dock. She, too, returned last week from
Nassau. The Eugenie, Capt. Porte; which has been for
some time lying up
at Birkenhead, is perhaps one of the
finest blockade-running
steamers in the port, as she is re-
ported the fastest. She belongs to Messrs. Fraser, Tren-
holm, and Co. The Fanny, in the Carrier's-dock, is a
fine steamer, sister ship to the Emily and Caroline.
The Gibraltar, late Captain Reid, is well known. She,
it will be remembered, conveyed to Charleston the
two Blakeney guns, which figured so conspicuously in
the first, if not in the more recent, bombardment of that
city. Captain Reid, her commander at the time, has, in
command of the Lynx, proved himself one of the most
daring captains engaged in the business. The Gibraltar is
the Sumter which created such consternation among the
American shipping at the breaking out of the war, and
which, if we except the Nashville, was the first Confederate
vessel at sea. The Georgia Belle, though a magnificent
looking vessel, has failed somewhat in the engine-room.
She has never been at sea. The G. T. Watson, which, if
we aro correctly informed, is veritably the oldest blockade-
runner extant, is in the Carriers-dock. She certainly was
the last vessel that left Charleston, the dock, shipping,
being all fired by the Confederates as she steamed from the
wharf. The Hornet, the Mazeppa, the Plover, the Ray,the Ruby, the Rosina, the Swan, the Snipe, and the Wed-
geon, are all new vessels, models of symmetry, and by
their trial trips are said to be unrivalled in speed. Tho
Chamelion, Capt. Wilkinson, is in the Clarence graving-
dock. She, like the Gibraltar, has figured in the double
capacity of merchantman and cruiser, having, as the Talla-
hasse, cruised some time under the Confederate flag, com-
manded by Captain Wood, of the Confederate Navy.—
Liverpool Mercury.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,
Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING the performance will commence with
THE MAN 01 THE WORLD. Sir Pertinax MacSyco-
Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. G. F. Neville, Barrett ; Miss HOBO
Leclercq and Miss Atkinson
After which, on a scale of great splendour, Milton's Mask
ri
of COMUS Messrs. Walter Lacy, NV itbye Cooper, Hen
Drayton, Miss Poole, Miss Augusta Thomson, and Mrs. H.
Yezin.

THEATRE-HO Y AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. Buckatone.
THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Mr. Chip-
pendale; Miss N. Moore, Miss Snowdon, Miss F. Wright, &c.
After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs.
Sothern, Bnckatoue, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers
Clark, White, Coe. drc. ; illesdamee Snowdon, Stuart, Bill;
Harris, Wright, Szc.
And EASY SHAVING. Miss Louise Keeley, Miss F.
Wright ; 31es3rs. Clark, Gordon, Rogers, (ix,
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
To commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI._
"ale 1-1-ovrl,4;ur and illanager. B. )• sbncer.
THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. Mess s. C. H.
Stephenson and Eburne ; Miss K. Kelly.
After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Mr. Benjamin
Webster; Messrs. J. L. Tool-, P. Bedford, Billington. Stuart,
Stephenson, Ashley ; Mrs. A. Mellon, and M,ss H. Simms.
To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE ; or, In the
Pigskin. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford ; Miss K. Kelly.