The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-15 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The deaths in London in the week that ended on
Saturday were 1,249 ; they were less than they
had been in many previous weeks,
The average
number of deaths as derived from the returns of
corresponding weeks in ten previous years (cor-
rected) is 1,224. The mortality, therefore, still
exhibits an excess over the estimated amount; but
in the present instance the excess is not consider-
able.

T birthsmeaslese ital
casesins thes
mo f e
week exceeded the deaths re-
gistered n the h
fa
rose from stciainrelabtiynab9declined The
from 53 in
the previous week to
28 39 last week ; while those of
found two-thirds of its
chiefly victimsto
in the
latter
he
East
t d
is
t disease
riet:
Spitalfields, St. George-in-the-East, Mile-
end Old Town, Bow, and Poplar. But scarlatina
prevailed for the most part in the South districts ;
and its chief seat continues to be the sub-districts of
Lambeth Church, in the second of which there
were 7 deaths last week. These 7 deaths, added to
those of five previous weeks, give a total number of
70 in that portion of the Lambeth district. Seven-
teen deaths from typhus occurred in the London
Fever Hospital. Four from typhus in the Maryle-
bone Workhouse. The total number returned by
the London districts as having been caused by this
disease in the last week is 89. Eighteen deaths
were from diphtheria. Eight children died from
syphilitic diseases.
Seven nonogenarians were returned, the oldest of
whom, a widow, had attained the age of 97 years-
Last week the births of 1,015 boys and 9t
s
in all 1,946 childn were registered irs
1852-61
In the ten corresponding weeks of the 53(.11
the average number (corrected) was 1,6°
on gdon.

mark
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PRICE OF GOLD.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling.
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. Mel. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 4-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4:G} per
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per .£1 sterling
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, there._
lore, about
.
m
3 -galls per oen.t.,4e..ai.Tr in London 'llan • Hamburg.

u 37.8 y.------
THE ROLL— Or THE PEOPLE.—The civil regis-
tration endg l England
ofd
lastand
year, six months short of a quarter of a century, this
astounding number of names had been registered and trans-
mitted to Somerset louse :—Persons married, 7,086,700 ;
tohe let of ,18 deaths in
marriages,ly and
births, 14,278,790 ; deaths, 9,605,536 ; in all 30,971,026, or
`Vales
n th
es en
began f births,
more than the entire population of the United Kingdom at
this day.

It is stated that the directors of the Ottoman
Bank have determined that 25,000 shares, of £2O each, with
a deposit of £2 each, shall be forthwith issued at par, the
option of taking such shares being offered, in the first in:
stance, to the shareholders registered in the corny!
books on the 6th inst., the day of the special geort_do lle:
which authorised this issue, in the proportione
o.f ushali
share to each old share, and that threr:_
as
80th the
participate pro rata in the division o p ino
80th of June, 1862.