The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND 8013TH-EASTERN—RATLWAY.—Trnffie re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 14,1854, 215,755 11 3
Corresponding week last year 13,751 3 0

Increase in 1854..
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 14,
1854 £9,061 .2 6
Corresponding week last year 8,550 6 4
Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 17,155 13 2
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 17,291 10 4
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Jan. 8, 1854 £11,040 16 9
Corresponding week last year 12,507 13 3
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 15, 1851 114,576 7 4
year
Corresponding week last
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Traffic return for
the wee's. ending Jan. 15, 1854
Corresponding week last year ... ,
2,993 6 11

£2,004 8 3

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Inereaule in 1854 .............................. £48215 3
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Jan. 14, 1.854 .......................... £l7B 19 7
Corresponding week lati year 142, 14 4

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Front the Registrar-General's Report.)
The Registrar-General's report states that although
the extreme rigour of the weather which ushered in the
year with its frost and snow has abated, its effects con-
tinue to be manifested, and even increase, in the bills of
mortality. In the week that ended last Saturday, the
number of deaths in London rose to 1,492 ; in the pre-
vious week it had been 1,444. In the 10 corresponding
weeks of 1844-53, the average number was 1,147, which,
with a correction for increase of population, becomes
1,262. The present excess above the calculated amount
is 230.

The number of cases attributed to diseases of the re-
spiratory organs is 365, while the estimated number is
296. These are distributed thus : 13 belong to laryn-
gitis and laryngismus stridulas, 184 to bronchitis, 114 to
pneumonia 54 to asthma and other diseases of this class.
Besides these, hooping cough destroyed 73 lives, phthisis
161. 12 fatal cases aro enumerated of smallpox, which
seems again to be spreading. Two cases of cholera are
recorded, neither apparently of the malignant type ;
they are :

Rensington ; Kensington Town.—At High-street,
Notting-hill, on 12th January, the son of a schoolmaster,
aged 11 months, "cholera infantum (4 days)." •
Stepney ; Radcliff.—At 9, Periwinkle-street, on 10th
January, the daughter of a blacksmith, 3 years, " cho-
leraic diarrhma (7 days)."

In the sub-district of St. George, Bloomsbury, at 21,
Colonnade, on 11th January, the wife of a teacher of
music, aged 47 years, died from "effusion on the brain
and exhaustion, accelerated by large collection of mat-
ter round the neck, mainly caused by want of food and
comfort." Mr. Yardley, the Registrar, says :—" I have
referred this case to the coroner's officer for inquiry
touching the latter portion of the surgeon's certificate."
Four persons died of intemperance.
In the west sub-district of Islington, at 1, Gainford-
street, on Bth January, the son and daughter of a
whitesmith, aged respectively two years and ten
months, died of scarlatina. Mr, Watts, the Regis-
trar, remarks :—" The deaths of three other chil-
dren of the same family were registered last week
from the same disease. The cottage in which the
family lives has a southern aspect, but having no opening
at the back for ventilation, an unwholesome effluvium is
emitted as from a confined drain. The two preceding
occupants had fatal cases of fever, and the state of the
premises was the subject of complaint with them."
In North-street,. Wandsworth, on 6th January, the
daughter of an appraiser, aged 22 years, died of " furun-
cular abscesses and exhaustion (2 months)."
In the Workhouse, Camberwell, on 7th January, a
woman, aged 73 years, died of "carbuncle."
In St. Thomas's Hospital, on 4th January, a painter,
aged 42 years, " carbuncle and diseased liver."
At 1, Craven street, on 12th January, a banker's
clerk, aged 36 years, " cerebral disease (one year), cata-
lepsy."
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'At Islington, the daughter of a greengrocer, aged 5
weeks, "erysipelas (5 days)." From a wound in the
axilla caused by the funis being coiled three times round
the neck, and round each arm-pit at the birth.
In the workhouse, Bermondsey, on 13th January, the
widow of a labourer, died of "natural decay," at the
great age, as reported, of 103 years.
In the Belgrave sub-district, in Whitaker-street, on
11th January, the daughter of a shoemaker, deceased,
aged three years, died of " confluent small-pox (three
weeks) ; never vaccinated." Mr. Jorden, the registrar,
adds :—" The father of this child, on his death, had ex-
acted a promise from his wife that she would not have
the two younger children vaccinated, in consequence of
one of the elder suffering St. Vitus's dance after vacci-
nation, which they attributed to the operation."
Mr. Yardley, Registrar of St. George, Bloomsbury,
writes—"A woman came to my office, from No. 4,
Chapel-place, Little Coram-street, to register the birth
of her infant, which she brought with her, and stated
that two of her children were very ill with small-
pox at home. She thought from the appearance which
the child in her arms had about the nose and mouth
that he also had caught the disease. I trust the medi-
cal officer belonging to the parish, who is, I believe,
very prompt in taking measures to prevent contagion,
will visit this place, as this and the adjoining courts are
very crowded. A man came a day or two since to re-
gister a birth from No. 12, Marchmont place, and told
me that he lived with his wife and four children, be-
sides the infant, in the back kitchen, which cannot be
more than eight or nine feet square. In the front
kitchen live another man with his wife and two or three
children ; he could not tell how many lived up stairs,
but believe there was a separate family in every room.
I have not visited the house, but probably it would be
right for the Inspector of Lodging Houses to look
to it."

Last week the births of 893 boys and 875 girls, in all
1,768 children, were registered in London. In the nine
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-53 the average
number was 1,411.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.426 in. The
reading of the barometer decreased from 29.81 in. at the
beginning of the week to 29.78 in. by 9 h. p.m. on the
11th ; decreased to 29.50 in, by 9h. p.m. on the 13th,
and increased to 29.64 in. by the end of the week. The
mean temperature was 37.5 deg., which is 2.3 deg.
above the average of the same week in 38 years. On
Sunday, the Bth, the mean temperature was 41.8 deg.,
which is 6.9 deg. above the average of the same day.
It was on other days rather above the average, except
Wednesday, when it was 24.9 deg., which is slightly
below it. The highest temperature was 47.9 deg., and
occurred on Sunday. The dew-point temperature was
34.4 deg. The temperature of the Thames rose to 36
deg. at the end of the week.