The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

TILE RE.

ONDON.

(From the Regiitrar General's Report)
It appears from the weekly return of the'Regis-
trar-General that the mortality of London was high

in the second and third weeks of November, as has

been shown in the reports for those periods ; but
it has risen still higher in the week that ended last
Saturday, when the number of deaths was 1,745.

This is a considerably greater number than in any
corresponding week of the last ten years, except

that of the year 1858, when the number that oc-
curred, in a less than the present population was

1,738. The following numbers show the constant
increase of deaths in the four weeks of the last
month; they were 1,307, 1,429, 1,559, and 1,745.
In the first of those weeks the mean temperature of

the air was about 45 degs. In the last three the
mean weekly temperature was 37 degs. or 38 deg
The atmosphere was cold, and frequently very
humid. Nearly 300 deaths occurred last week more
than the number that would have been returned if
the average rate of mortality at the end of Novem-
ber had ruled. Although the birth-rate was near
the average last week, the number of births ex-
ceeded that of deaths by only 89. The table of
fatal diseases shows the increase to have been due
principally to pulmonary complaints. The deaths
from "diseases of the respiratory organs" were
in the last four weeks successively 197, 283, 350,
and 470 ; and to take two special diseases to
that class, those from bronchitis were in the same
periods 101, 130, 186, and 269 ; and from pneumo-
nia, 73, 115, 103, 131_ Phthisis, which ranks ire
the table with " tubercular diseases," was fatal in
the four weeks in 152, 166, 177, and 169 cases.
Nearly a half of the deaths from bronchitis occurred
at 60 years of age and upwards. There were 94
fatal cases of measles and 95 of scarlatina. Severe
children died of measles in Camden-town, 6 in the
East sub-district of Islington, 5 in St. Peter, Wal-
worth. Scarlatina was fatal in 8 cases in the sub-
district of St. Mary, Paddington, in 5 in that of St.
Peter, Walworth, in 6in Rotherhithe. The regis-
trar of St. Mary (St. George's-in-the-East) reports
that there have been 7 cases of typhus in two fami-
lies that reside in the house, No. 9, Morgan,street,
in his subdistrict. At a house in Francis-terrace,
Rotherhithe, 4 children, being the whole number
of children in a family, have been carried off 11
scarlatina within 11 days. Four deaths are returned
as caused by privation. The following are the Par"
titulars of those cases :—On Bth November, a rasa?
aged 57 years, who had been an artificial florist?
died in Pancras workhouse of " exhaustion from
starvation." On 17th November, in the same
workhouse, the widow of a tailor, aged 43 years'
died of "exhaustion from starvation." On 24th
November, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a Teat
unknown, probably about 33 years of age, died 0.1
" cold and want of food." He had been found In
the Smithfield-pens. On 14th November, at 1"
Parliament-street, Bethnal-green, the son of
weaver, aged three months, died of " destitution;
the mother not having milk for the child from warlt
of food." Last week the births of 971 boys as"
863 girls, in all 1,834 children, were registered
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London. In the ten corresponding weeks of 0°
years 1852-61 the average number (corrected)