The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-22 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 21.

STOCK EXOHANGE.—The recent intelligence from the
East, and the state of the money market in London, con-
tinues to operate injuriously upon our local exchanges.

BRISTOL, Nov. 21.

STOCK EXCEIANGE.—Our market to-day has been more
active, and there has been business done to some extent in
Bristol and Exeters and Midlands. The former closed at
95, and the latter at 67g.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY.

Amsterdam— .• .• .• 11 15%1
Ditto, three months 11 17
Botterdam •• •• •• •••••• 11 17 %1
Antwerp • • • • . • • • • • • • • • 2532%1
Brussels .............. 25 321,6
Ilamburgh •• •• s• •• •• ••• 13 6%1
Alton •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • •
Paris .• •••• •• •• •• •• •• 25 15
Ditto, three months .. 25 35
Marseilles ............. 25 35
Bourdeaux •••••• •• •• ---
Frankfort•on-M able •• .. 118 %
Berlin •• •••••••• .• •• ••
Vienna•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 12 50
Trie5te................ 12 55
Petersburg •• •••••• •• •• 35
Madrid .• • • • • • • • • • • 50
Cadiz .• •••••• • •
Barcelona ............

Gibraltar ....

Leghorn ...• •• . 30 50
Genoa ...... 25 4734
Milan ..............

••••••
Venice ...... .•• •
- • • ....
Naples • . • .....
Palermo ....
Messina' ... . 130
Lisbon .. ..... •.. • • 53
Oporto ......
Rio Janeiro . • • ..
Buenos Ayre5..........
New York, GO days' sight
Philadelphia
PRICER OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
MexicatwDollars .... 0 5 0
New Dollars .... • • 0 0 0
Silver in bars • .... 0 5 1%

HEALTH OP LONDO.V DURING THE WEEK,

(Prom the Report of the Registrar-General. J

In the week that ended last Saturday 1,309 deaths
were registered in London. Having fallen to 1,160 in
the previous week, the lowest number attained since the
late epidemic, the deaths again exhibit an increase, the
effect of increased cold in the closing months of the
year. The mean weekly temperature was 60.7 deg. in
the second week of September ; since that time it has
fallen almost continually till it was only 42.2 deg. in the
week that ended November 11; and last week it has
further declined to 40.9 deg.
The mean temperature of last week is about 5 deg. be-
low the average of ten corresponding weeks, and the
effect of this depression is perceptible near he begi 1-
ning and end of life, for 666 children died, whilst the
average is 539 ; and 267 old persons died, the average
being 212. Between the periods of 15 and 60 years the
mortality did not exceed the ordinary rate.
• In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the
years 1844-53 the average nuntber of deaths was 1,024,
which, if raised in proportion to increase of population,
becomes 1,126. The present return shows a mortality
considerably greater than usual.
Twelve deaths were caused by cholera, and 31 by
diarrhoea. Smallpox was fatal in 29 cases, measles in
24, hooping-cough in 34, and scarlatina in 106. To the
entire class of zymetic diseases 332 deaths—a high mor-
tality—are referred ; and to diseases of the respiratory
organs 246, which is also more than the average at this
period.

- The 12 deaths from cholera occurred in the following
sub-districts :—ln Westminster, St. John 1 ; in West-
minster, St. Margaret 1 ; in Marylebone, St. John 1 ;
in St. Giles South 1 ; in St. Giles North 1 ; in the City
of London South-east 1 ; in Hoxton Old Town 1 ; in
Whitechapel, Mile-end New Town 1; in Aldgate 1 ;
in Kent road 1 ; in Newington, Trinity 1 ; and in Ro-
therhitbe 1.

The registrars, in cotnpliance with instructions given
to there, make occasional communications in their re-
turns with reference to the deaths they have registered,
and to particular circumstances in which these have
occurred. The correctness of such opinions and state-
ments must be held to rest exclusively •n the testimony
of the registrars, and of the medical or other infor-
mants.

Mr. Rixon, the registrar of the sub-district of Wool-
wich Arsenal, who ;registered two deaths of children
from small-pox, observers- that the Vaccination Act is
nearly, if not quite, a dead letter in his district.
Scarlatina is fatally prevalent in Islington, Mr. But-
terfield, the registrar of the east sub-district, having re-
corded last week 9 deaths of children from that disease.
At 11, Hornsey-road, on 10th November, a carpen-
ter's apprentice, aged 16 years, died of " erythematous
eruption (7 days)." Mr. Hudleston, his medical atten-
dant, writes :—" I have seen a considerable number of
these cases, apparently contagious, among children ane
young adults. Sometimes the eruption has lasted only
two days, sometimes five or six. All have ultimately
recovered but this, which had the peculiar teimination,
24 hours preceding death, of sanguineous exudation
under the skin, and effusion of blood from all the mucous
membranes, accompanied with typhoid symptoms."
At 15, Bryan-place, Islington, on 13th November, a
sawyer, aged 28 years, died of "excessive salivation
from mercury (14 days), gangrene of throat and parts
adjacent (12 days)."
At 36, New Nichol-street, Bethnal-green, en 14th
November, the widow of a brush-maker, aged 56 years.
was "found dead on the floor from neortificatioa and
carbuncles on the back." Post mortem. Inquest.
In the workhouse, St. George-in-the-East, on 6th
Nov., a mariner, aged 26 years, a Lascar, unknown,
died, according to the return of a coroner's jury, a "na-
tural death, accelerated by exposure to night air and
cold."

Last week the births of 666 boys and 627 girls, in all
1,293 children, were registered in London. In the nine
corresponding weeks of the years 184i-53 the average
number was 1,402.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer dor in, the week was 29.467 in.
The-highest reading was 30.13 in. en Sunday; the owest
was 28.83 in. at E h. a.m. on Thursday. The mea,,
temperature of the week was 40'9 deg., which is 2.1 deg
below the average of the same week in 33 years. On
Teesday the mean temperature was 6.1 deg. below the
average ; on the two following days it was slightly above
the average. The highest temperature of the week was
52 0 deg. on Wednesday; the lowest was 30.0 deg. on
Monday. Tim mean dew-point temperature was 37 5
deg.; and between this and the mean air temperature the
difference was 3.4 deg. The wind blew generally from
the south-east and north-east. The amount of rain was
0.62 in., which fell on Wednesday and the two following
days.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 18
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 64
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
240
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion .......
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy 4,
Old Age
5udden.....................
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 49
Causes not specified

72

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DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corm- Deaths
of 1853.
Week.
West Districts EnurBeBrla.ted. sponding Week in the
376,527
North Districts 490,396 ...... 221
...... 253
Central Districts 393,256 ...... 153 ...... 219
East Districts 485,522 ...... 291
...... 256
South Districts
Totals ---
2,362,236 1,192

Males
Females..

1,309
............. 671
.............. 633

Males....
Females.

Total .