The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-03 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

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

The deaths in London in the last week of August
(ending on Saturday) were 1,147 ; and they were
less than in any of the three previous weeks of the
month. The mean weekly temperature has varied
little during the month; in the first and third weeks
it was nearly 59.6 deg., in the second and fourth
nearly 58.6 deg.

If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the thirty-
fifth week of 1854 are excluded from the returns on
which the calculation is based, it will appear that
the mortality of last week approximated very closely
to the average mortality for the end of August.
The births in last week exceeded the deaths in
the same time by 705.
Diarrhoea, which began to increase after the third
week of July, and continued to make progress dur-
ing five subsequent weeks, exhibits a decrease in
the present return, the deaths from it having de-
clined to 93. Besides the 93 from that complaint
last week, there were 13 referred to cholera, In
Three Tun-alley, Whitechapel, a woman, aged 40
years, died of cholera after three days' illness. At
8, Norfolk-street, Southwark, a man, aged 38 years,
died of cholera, after three days' illness. At 21,
St. John's-terrace, Battersea, a woman, aged 55
years, died of " cholera sporadica (0 days), febris
gestrica (3 days)."
Typhus, of which there were 77 fatal cases, pre-
vails chiefly in the East districts; it was returned
in 5 cases in Limehouse and 4in Bow. There wore
9 deaths from smallpox.
A woman, aged 30 years, had been afflicted with
eczema and ichthyosis from birth. An infant was
suffocated by sucking the india-rubber nipple of a
feeding bottle into its mouth. A seaman in the
merchant service, aged 52 years, died in the Dread-
nought Hospital Ship from " starvation ; dysen-
tery."

Last week the births of 912 boys and 940 girls,
in all 1,852 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61
the average number (corrected) was 1,823.

TRE CONFEDERATE STEAMER ALABAMA.—TbC
intelligence respecting this vessel published in The Times of
yesterday has occasioned a rise inwar risks. The Alabama
is nearly 1,000 tons burden and 300-horse power, and when
she left the Mersey she accomplished under unfavourfib'e
circumstances nearly 13 knots an hour. She is armed der
a 100-pounder Blakely rifled gun forward, a 68-P°o7 all
smooth bore aft, and four 32-pounders. Her beard beard of
picked men, numbers 110. She will, probably', P'
..D.O for vessels
off Nassau and Charleston, opening a Pas7government.
carrying munitions of war for the Confederate
i the Western.
The Alabama took her armament en blotwithstandiug a
Islands from the Bahamas stealneco
lor in s peed
r'nsidered to be quite
otper.
heavy sea which prevailed. She
a match for the Tuscarora, and iSte v She
iees from New York
can carry 21 days' coal. La• edndach had been, heavily
state that the sloop-of-war Ado°
armed, and dispatched from Fortress Monroe to cruise in
Bahamas waters.
over the
The second arch of the wooden bridge
Var broke down a fewdays ago under the weight of a cart
laden with stone. Fortunately no loss of life occurred, and
measures were irnzuediately taken to prevent the circulation
from being biterruPted.