The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-03 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

The return for the week ending last Saturday exhibits
an increase, though not considerable, on the high mor-
tality of the preceding week. The deaths registered
last week amounted to 1,344, of which 541 occurred
from birth to 15 years of age, 427 at 15 and under 60
years, and 359 at 60 years and upwards. The propor-
tions at these three periods of life vary in very trifling
degrees from those of the preceding week ; but it may be
mentioned that among persons dying under 60 years
there is a slight increase, while the number of those
who died at that age and upwards is diminished.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52
the average number of deaths was 1,053, which, if a
correction is applied for increase of population, gives a
mortality for last week amounting to 1,158. The actual
number of deaths in the last week, therefore, exceeds the
estimated sum by 186. •
While epidemic diseases become less fatal, those which
affect the respiratory organs manifest a great tendency to
increase. In the lastfiveweeks the cases falling under the
latter head have been 199, 250, 312, 331, and 371. The
increase is discovered under bronchitis, which carries off
the old ; the cases assigned to this complaint were in the
same weeks 91, 110, 168, 184, and 212. These 212 deaths
are thus distributed:-44 amongst the young, 65 amongst
the middle-aged, 103 amongst persons who have turned
their sixtieth year. Pneumonia (inflammation of the
lungs), which produces more uniform results, was, fatal
in 71, 95, 87, 90, and 93 cases. Phthsis destroyed in
the last five weeks 138, 151, 142, 167, and 147 ; influ-
enza 1,3, 7,4, 6 lives.
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Of 3 cases in which small-pox was fatal last week, one
occurred to a gentleman aged 29 years ; the deceased,
who was a solicitor, had been ♦accinated. The son of a
hawker, aged 5 weeks, died on the 11th of February at
4, Edgar-place, Mile-end Old Town, of " ♦ariola (not
vaccinated), convulsions." Mr. Castleden states that
the child was not buried till the 27th, as it was not con-
♦enient to inter on an earlier day. The body of an in-
fant that had died from this infectious disease was kept
among the living 16 days.

Last week the births of 846 boys and 816 girls, in all
1,662 children, were registered in London. The average
number in eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-
52 was 1,513.

At the-Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.579 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 33.8 deg., which is 5.7 degs.
below the average of the same week in 38 years. The
mean daily temperature on Sunday, when it was lowest,
was 30.2 degs., or 9.1 deg. below the average of the same
day; it rose by nearly constant progression till Saturday,
when it was 37.2 degs., or 2.6 degs. below the average.
The wind blew generally from the north, sometimes from
the south-west. The mean dew point temperature was
27 degs.

1?AIL WTL T SHARI MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL—MABos 2.

STOOK EXCHINGI.—The market for shares has been
flat all day, and closed heavily at the following quotations :
Caledonian, 324 ; Eastern Counties, 134 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 38 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 781; ditto Fifth.
shares, 41 d. ; London and North Western, 1191; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 304 ; Midland, 771; North
British, 9 3-16 ; South Eastern and Dover, 24 ; York and
North. Midland, 29g.