The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Front the Registrar-General's Report.)
Though the weather has lttely assumed a milder cha-
racter, the high mortality that prevailed throughout last
month discovers no abatement ; on the contrary it exhi-
bits a great increase. The deaths in London were 1,011
in the last week of January ; since that time they have
steadily increased till the number registered in the
week ending last Saturday, amounts to 1,427. The
present return shows an increase of 83 above that of the
week immediately preceding. Persons of all ages have
suffered ; of the 1,427 who died, 573 were children under
15 years, 460 had attained that age, but were under 60,
and 379 were 60 years old and upwards.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52
the average number of deaths was 1,045, which, if raised
in proportion to increase of population, gives a mor-
tality of 1,150 for last week. The actual number, there-
fore, exceeds the estimated amount by 277. Taking the
same three periods of life as .above, it appears that the
mortality- of the young is 13 per cent., of the middle-
aged 22 per cent., and of the old 44 per cent., above the
corrected average.
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Last week the births of 861 boys and 810 girls were
registered in London. The average number in eight
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height of the barometer in the week was 26.663 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 35.3 deg., which is
4.6 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years.
The mean daily temperature, which was 31.6 deg. on Tues-
day, when it was lowest, and was 8.4 deg. below the
average, rose to 43.9 deg. on Saturday, or 41 deg. above
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east 29 at the beginning of the week, changed on Tuesday
to south-West ;on Thursday it , again blew from north-
east, and at the end of the week returned to south-west.

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restrictions as will give the Board of Trade more liberty
of action and greater power of interference than it at
present possesses.—Morning Advertiser.
SIX. NEW FIRE ESCAPES have been placed in various
parts of London during the past year, viz., in the New-
road, near Albany-street, Camden-town ; in front of the
Southampton Arms ; the corner of Dean-street, Oxford-
street ; the corner of Connaught-place, in the same
street ; the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster ; the Horse-
ferry-road, Westminster—making the present *umber of
stations, 38. Two extra stations are to be immediately'
established, providing the inhabitants are willing ta oboti-
tribute towards their support.