The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, July 15, the births
registered in London and ten other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 3,673; the deaths, 2,874. Tho an-
nual rate of mortality in the week in those eleven towns
was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 984 boys and 944 girls, in all
1928; children were registered in the week. In the cor-
responding weeks of ten years, 1855-64, the average num-
ber, corrected for increase of population, was 1,887.
The deaths registered in London during the week are
1,392. It was the 28th week of the year; and the average
number for that week in ten years is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,244.

The mortality exhibits a considerable decrease, the tote
deaths returned in the last three weeks having been suc-
cessively 1,455, 1,536, and 1,392. The deaths of persons
under 20 years of age decreased from 959 in the previous
week to 860 last week. Deaths at all ages from diarrh
decreased in the same periods from 301 to 267.
The whole of these 267 deaths were, with few exceptions,
cases of infantile diarrhcea ; 208 occurred to children who
had not completed their first year ; 35 to children one year
old and less than two years. Besides these, 11 deaths wero
returned as caused by cholera, all of which, except two,
appear to have been cases of cholera infantum.
In the five divisions the greatest number of deaths from
diarrhcoa occurred in the north disticts, comprising chiefly
Marylebone, Pancras, and Islington. Twenty-eight cases
of this complaint were fatal in Pancras, and the same num-
ber in Islington, 18 in Marylebone. Seventeen occurredin
the district of Kensington ; 20 in Lambeth.

A boy of 15 years was killed by being run over in a
cavalry chtlrge at 'Wormwood Scrubs. He died on the 3d
inst. in St. Mary's Hospital.

Tho rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in Lon-
don, 28 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin, 35 in Liverpool,
33 in Manchester, 36 in Salford, 23 in Birmingham, 33 in
Leeds, 19 in Bristol, 29 in Hull, and 30 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 32 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 24th ult., when tho temperature was 0.4 Fahrenheit
higher than in the same week in London, where the rate
was 24 per 1,000.

In Liverpool the births were 320, the deaths 319 ; in
Manchester the births 251, the deaths 225 ; in Salford the
births 66, the death; 77 ; in Birmingham the births 262,
the deaths 145 ; in Leeds the births 110, the deaths 141 ;
in Bristol the births 92, the deaths, 58 ; in Hull the births
78, the deaths 57 ; in Edinburgh the births 115, the deaths
93 ; in Glasgow the births 291, the deaths 245 ; and in
Dublin the births 160, the deaths 122. There were 342
deaths in Vienna during the week ending the 24th ult.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.733 in. The read-
ing fell to 29.51 in. on Tuesday, and it rose to 29.90 in.
on Wednesday. The moan temperature of the air in
the week was 61.4 deg., which is 0.7 dog. below the
-average of the same week in 50 years (as determined
by Mr. Glaisher. The lowest night temperature was 47
deg., on Wednesday. The highest day temperature was 85
deg. on Saturday. The range of the thermometer in the
week was therefore 38 dog. The thermometer in the sun
rose to 149 on Saturday. The mean degree of humidity of
the air was 74, complete saturation being represented by
100. The wind blew almost constantly from a south-west-
erly point. One-tenth of an inch of rain fell. On Sunday
there were showers of rain with thunder and lightning.
On Monday there was rain at Birmingham, Liverpool, and
Manchester, as well as Greenwich. On Wednesday and
Thursday there was rain at
_Bristol; the amount on the
two days was 0.82 in.