The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-12 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON,

(Front the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
In the week that ended last Saturday the births in
London and nine other towns of the United King-
dom were 4,067 ; the deaths 3,200. The annual rate
of mortality in the week in those 10 large towns was
30 per 1,000 persons living, and less than in the
previous week, when it was 32.
In London the births of 1,113 boys and 1,095
girls, in all 2,208 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years
1855-64 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 1,996.
The deaths in London in the same period were

1,680. The average number for the 14th week in
10 years (corrected) is 1,422. The deaths in the
present return exceed by 258 the estimated number.
Zymotic diseases proved fatal to 320 persons.

108 eight children died from whooping cough, 70
deaths occurred from typhus, 11 from small-pox, 26
from scarlatina, 9 from diphtheria, and 14 from

measles.

447 deaths were caused by diseases of the respira-

tory organs (exclusive of phthisis). 257 persons
died from bronchitis, 121 from pneumonia, and 28
from asthma. From phthisis 187 persons died.
Diseases of the heart proved fatal to 60 persons, and
201 deaths occurred from diseases of the brain. The
daughter of a miller, aged one year, died on the 7th
of April at the London Hospital from injuries sus-
tained by being run over by a van.
The rate of mortality was 29 per 1,000 in Lon-
don, 35 in Edinburgh, and 25 in Dublin ; 37 in
Liverpool, 30 in Manchester, 24 in Salford, 24
in Birmingham, 30 in Leeds, 28 in Bristol, and
36 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 39
per 1,000 during the week ending the 25th ult. ; the
temperature was 10.1 deg. Fahrenheit lower than
in the same week in London, when the rate was 28
per 1,000.

In the cities where the causes of death are not
registered regularly and published weekly, certain
diseases acquire a character of violence before their
prevalence is known, and as the Governments them-
selves have no machinery for procuring accurate
information, the vague, contradictory reports from
unauthentic sources create alarm all over Europe.
St. Petersburg is still in this condition ; unlike Lon-
don and Vienna, it has no weekly tables; but this
evil is likely to be remedied ere long, as Russia has
taken an active part in the Statistical Congresses,
and the matter is under consideration; its Govern-
ment, too, is directing its attention to the health of
the people.

In the meantime there is no trace of any new
disease in English cities ; but the mortality has been
high ; fever in its various forms is still fatal to con-
siderable numbers, for no means are taken in many
places to carry out effectual sanitary measures.
Great waterworks and great drains appeal to the
magination, but they are of no more use than the
pyramids of Egypt in preventing pestilences, unless
they carry sweet water into all the people's dwell-
ings, and remove from our cities every impurity
back to the land by which it is required. Houses
are crowded to an inconceivable extent, and the
lodgings of the workmen in our large towns destroy
their health.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
temperature of the air in the week was 48.9 deg.,
which is 3.7 deg. above the average of the same
week in 50 years. The highest day temperature
was 71.5 deg. on Saturday. The lowest night tem-
perature was 31.9 deg. on Sunday.

The International Financial Society.

The following circular has been issued by the
International Financial Society (Limited) to appli-
cants for shares in the Anglo-Egyptian Navigation
Company :

" Sir —Since the issue of the prospectus, on which your
application for shares in the Anglo-Egyptian Navigation
Company (Limited) was made, the following facts have
come to !the knowledge of the directors of the Interna-
tional Financial Society, and they deem it proper to ac-
quaint you therewith. It appears that certain parties in-
terested in a rival line of steamers filed a bill in November,
1863, to restrain Mr. F. Chapple from employing his
vessels in the Egyptian trade. In December, 1863, the
Lords Justices refused to grant the injunction prayed by
the bill, and in Dec., 1864, the Master of the Rolls dismissed
the bill with costs. No notice of any appeal was given ;
but on Saturday last, when the proposed company had been
six days before the public, an intimation was served on the
directors of the International Financial Society that the
parties referred to had lodged a notice of appeal to the
Lord Chancellor. On search being made, it appears that
no such notice had been lodged. The object, however
of the parties is sufficiently apparent, and while the
directors of the International Financial Society have no
reason to attach any value whatever to the opposition
thus set up, they have nevertheless considered it their
duty to guard the interests of the shareholders in the
company against all contingencies in the possible event of
tae partiee who have served the notice pursuing their ob-
ject and obtaining a decision adverse to Mr. Chapple. Such
a decision could have no effect upon this company, except
in the way of depriving it of the individual services of Mr.
Chapple. The directors have accordingly arranged with
Mr. Chapple that the amount in excess of the actual valua-
tion of the steamers being represented by paid-up shares,
shall remain in the hands of the International Financial
Society, to be cancelled in the contingency referred to,
so that in that event Messrs. Chapple would not receive
any consideration for goodwill. The directors of the Inter-
national Financial Society, however, consider it right that
you should have the option of withdrawing your applica-
tion for shares, if you should see fit ; and I have, ac-
cordingly, to request that you will communicate your wish
to me by return of post, and in the event of your still de-
siring an allotment of shares that you will at once renew
your application on the accompanying form. If your ap-
plication is renewed for the same or a smaller number of
shares no new deposit will be necessary, but if your appli-
cation be for a larger number of shares it must be accom-
panied by a cheque for the difference of deposit.—l remain
your obedient servant, W. A. MICIIA.EL, Secretary."

FATAL ACCIDENTS IN THE METROPOLIS.—Yester-
day William Cuthbert was driving a heavy laden
railway van through Long-acre, when one of the wheels
passed over a loose stone and he was jerked off the driving
box, and both wheels on the near side passed over his chest.
He was taken to the hospital, and expired soon after his
admission.—John Akers, a plasterer, was moulding the cap
of a chimney on some new buildings in the Britannia-
fields, when a portion of the brickwork gave way, and,
falling on the scaffold, carried it to the ground, Akers be-
ing killed on the spot.—Mr. John Bagman, importer of
foreign game and poultry, expired at his residence in
Southwark from the effects of a fractured skull, sustained
by being thrown out of a dog-cart in returning from the
University boat raco on Satu- day.
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