The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-31 00:00:00

THE SUN,

HEALTH of LO-VDON during the WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The total number of deaths registered in London
in the week ending last Saturday was 902 ; the
weekly average of five autumns, is 1,162 ; the present
return, therefore, shows a decrease of 260 deaths on
the estimated mortality of the season. The numbers
in the last three weeks, during which the mortality
has continued to fall below the average, have been
successively 1,075, 1,028, and 902. In last week
only 25 deaths from cholera were registered; the
numbers returned in the first three weeks of October
were respectively 288, 110, and 41. Of the 25 deaths
of the week, one occurred in the sub-district of
Long-acre, two in the district of Pancras, one in
Islington, one in the workhouse at Lower
Homerton, one (after puerperal peritonitis) is
Cock court, Bishopsgate, three in the district of
Shoreditch, three in Bethnal-green, two in White-
chapel, four in St. George-in•the East, one in
Stepney, two in Poplar, and one in each of the follow-
ing districts :—Bermondsey, St. George (Southwark),
Lambeth, and Camberwell. The deaths from diarrhoea
and dysentery in the last week were 51 ; the average
is 27 ; their continuous decline is shown by the num-
bers returned in the first three weeks of October,
which were 146, 105, and 63. Typhus was fatal in
52 cases ; the weekly average is 56. From small-pox
there were seven deaths (about a third of the average) ;
whilst those from measles, scarlatina, and hooping- cough
were respectively 20, 33, and 16, the three epidemics
exhibiting at present only half of the usual mortality.
The mortality from phthisis is also much less than the
usual amount. Besides a case of cholera, already re-
ferred to, the deaths of 13 women, aft-r childbirth,
were registered in the week.
The reading of the barometer was 30 in. on Wed-
nesday ; the mean 'reading of the week was 29.87.
The mean temperature has been throughout the week
higher than the average of the same week of seven
years; on the last five days it was from 9 to 12 de-
grees higher than the average of corresponding days.
The mean of the week was 55 degrees.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED D
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1849.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... *229
aseases of Uncertain Seat ... 36
Tubercular Diseases ... ... 139
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 108
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .. 41
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
-

Respiration ... ... ... 132
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion... ... ... -.. ... ... 58
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ... ... ... 11
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, & '3. ... ... 16
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 6
Diseases of the Skin, &e. ... ... ... ... 2
Malformations... ... ... ... ... ... 1

Premature Birth •.• ...

Atrophy

... ... ... ••• ... ... 25

Old Age ... ... ••• ... .s. 39
Sudden ... ... ... ... ... ... 8

Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

... 32

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ...

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8 in the
1841 Five Autumns. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 164 112
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 207 ... 154
Central Districts 374,199 ... 208 ... 133
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 259 , ... 241
South Districts.. 503,346 324 ... 262

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,162 ...

Males . ... ... ... ... 442
Females ... ... ... ... 460