The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From .tke Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)

In the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 26, the
births in London and ten other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 3,820; deaths, 2,567. The
annual rate of mortality in the week of those 11
towns was 24 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 947 boys and 969 girls,
in all 1,916 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of 10 years 1855-64 the
average number, corrected for increase of popula-
tion, was 1874.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,135. It was the 34th week of the year, and
the average number for that week was, with a cor-
rection for increase of population, 1,290. The
deaths returned are less by 155 than the calculated
number.

The mortality from diarrhcea was almost exactly
the same in amount as that of the previous week,
in which it has been shown that there was a great
decrease. In the week that ended Aug. 12 the deaths
from diarrhcea were 201 ; in the following week,
116 ; last week, 115. The registrar of the Hackney
sub-district returned 8 fatal cases of the complaint.
The registrars of St. Paul, Deptford, and Rother-
hithe returned 5 and 4 respectively.
Six deaths were registered as caused by cholera
or choleraic diarrhoea, three of which number oc-
curred to adults. A cowkeeper, aged 52, died on
the 21st inst., at 10, York-street, Haggerstone, of
" cholera (16 hours)."
All the 115 deaths from diarrhcea were amongst
children, except five cases which occurred to per-
sons aged 60 years and upwards. The mortality
from this cause is considerably less than the average
in corresponding weeks of former years. In the
thirty-fourth week of 1859 the deaths were 215 ;
in the same week of last year they were 190.

In High Holborn, a boy, 15 years old, committed
eposs state.
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suicide by hanging. A tailor, aged 41 years, died
in Hampstead workhouse, of " disease of the
kidneys,
Two deaths from injury by carriages were re..
gistered :—On 19th August an engineer, aged 42
Years, "running with face against a cab wheel, and
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falling (9 hours)," died at Thurlow House, Brixton.
On 3d August a carman, aged 60 years, by a wag-
gon, died in Westminster Hospital.
The rate of mortality last week was 20 per 1,000
in London, 24 in Edinburgh, and 24 in Dublin ; 30
in Liverpool, 34 in Manchester, 24 in Salford, 26 in
Birmingham, 30 in Leeds, 20 in Bristol, 32 in Hull,
and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 29 per
1,000 during the week ending the sth inst., when.
the temperature was 11.6 deg. Fahrenheit higher
than in the same week in London, where the rate
was 23 per 1,000.

In Liverpool the births were 377, the deaths 272;
in Manchester, births 222, deaths 228 ; in Salford,
births 80, deaths 52 ; in Birmingham, births 230,
deaths 165 ; Leeds, births 200, deaths 130 ; Bris-
tol, births 103, deaths 62 ; Hull, births 69, deaths
63 ; Edinburgh, births 109, deaths 80 ; Glasgow,
births 320, deaths 234 ; and, in Dublin, births 194,
deaths 146. There were 316 deaths in Vienna dur-
ing the week ending the sth inst.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.692 in.
The reading fell to 29.30 in. on Wednesday, and.
rose to 30.14 in. on Saturday. The mean tempera-
ture of the air was 61.7 deg., which is 1.1 deg. above
the average of the same week in 50 years (as deter-
mined by Mr. Glaisher). The difference between
the mean dew-point temperature and air tempera-
ture was 5.8 deg. The mean degree of humidity of
the air was 82, complete saturation being represented
by 100, which point was actually attained on Wed-
nesday, on which day rain fell to the amount of
1.79 in. -The min-fall in the week was 1.96 in. On
Wednesday rain fell almost uninterruptedly (at
times with extraordinary violence) from eight o'clock
in the morning till nine in the evening ; but this
heavy
fall was confined to the southern parts of the
country. On Sunday, the 20th, rain fell at Clifton
to the amount of 1.44 in.

THE MODERN FATHER.—Tiae British father has
undergone a great metamorphosis of late years. Ho
has relaxed his old severity of aspect, and become more
Human. He plays Jove no longer; he has cast aside his tin-
foil thunderbolts, and come down from his pasteboard
Olympus. He stands confessed a man—a man with the
same heart and the same sympathies as those which ani-
mate the breasts of boys. It may be said that children
have compelled their autocratic fathers to give them a
Constitution. When they know how to use a knife and
fork—which is their qualification. for the franchise—they
are allowed to sit at the same table with their parents.
They are permitted to have a voice in the house, and to
exercise their right respectfully think and have opinions
of their own. Love and sympathy and intelligent coin-
Munity have taken the place of a cold and senseless seve-
rity, and children, who formerly were little better than
mechanical dolls, to be pushed up and down a stick
like monkeys, or squeezed for a bark, like toy dogs, are
freed from artificial restraints, and their intelligence is al-
lowed to expand with the natural growth of their minds
and bodies.—Dickens's "All the Year Round."