The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-12 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON during the WEEK.
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(From the Registrar• Gencrarsßeturn.)
The return for the week ending last Saturday
shows that the total deaths registered in the metro-
polis were 1,053. The average of the season, cor-
rected for increase of population, is 1,162, and,
therefore, exceeds the deaths of last week by 109.
The mortality which for some time after the abate-
ment of the epidemic continued to fall till it reached
a point unusually low, again steadily increases, as
appears from the numbers successively returned in
the last four weeks, which were 878, 892, 931, and
1,053. The cause of the increase may be discovered
in the fact, that whereas deaths from epidemic dis-
eases in these four weeks were respectively 204, 178,
173, and 203, these caused by diseases of the respi-
ratory organs (chiefly bronchitis and pneumonia)
were 134, 170, 194, and 203, showing a gradual rise
towards the average, which is 214. The deaths from
phthisis (which are not included in the above) have
been in the last four weeks 128, 104, 134, and 133;
the weekly average is 128. Hooping cough was
fatal, in the same periods, to 22, 12, 23, and 18
children; the average is 34. There were 9 deaths
from influenza last week, showing an increase on
recent returns; the average of previous seasons is 21,
but is chiefly derived from the mortality in 1847,
when influenza was epidemic, and multiplied the
deeths both from this and other affections of the res-
piratory organs. The deaths in last week from
typhus were 51, a considerable increase on previous
weeks ; but other epidemics are still much below the
average. It is gratifying to state that no person in
London was registered as having died in the last week
from cholera; this is the first week in which the bills
of mortality have been quite free from this disease
since June, 1848, a period of nearly eighteen months.
The deaths from diarrhoea were 17, less by 6 than the
average. A man of 47 years died of " marasmus,
after spirit drinking." The death of a man of 63 in
St. Andrew Eastern (Holborn) was caused by desti•
tution. In Norwood a man died of glanders caught
from a diseased horse.

Accompanying the present return is a diagram,
which exhibits the mortality from cholera in the
London districts, with the average elevation of the
inhabited portions of each ; and shows also by which
of the nine water cJmpanies each district is supplied,
and tho source from which its water is obtained.

The mean daily reading of the barometer on Thurs-
day was 29 635 in., the highest in the week ; the mean
of the week was 9.419. The mean daily tempera-
ture, which fell to 33 deg. on Tuesday, rose to 46 deg.
on Thursday. The mean of the week was 42 deg. 2
min., slightly above the average of the same week in
seven years. On Tuesday the mean temperature was
8 deg. below the average, and on Thursday 6 deg.
above it.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1819.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... *203
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 61
Tubercular Diseases ... 170
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 126
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 50
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... ... ... ... 203
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... ... ... •• • 61
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• ... •• • 11
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, /z 12
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 9
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations...
Premature Birth ...
Atrophy ... ... •••
Old Ago
Sudden.
... 8
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance ... 36
Dauses not specified ... ... 4

... 25

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,053

Populatien Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8 in the
1841 Five Autumns. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 164 ... 147
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 207 ... 202
Central Districts 374,199 ... 208 ... 180
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 259 ... 224
South Districts.. 503,346 ... 324 ... 300

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,162 ... 1,053
Males . ... ... ... ... 539

Females ... ... ... ... ... 514

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

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Males ... ... ... ... ... 710
Females ... ... ... ... ... 628

Total ... ... ... ... ... 1,338
*ln this number are included 32 by Scarlatina, 5
by Typhus Fever, and 17 by Diarrhcea.

SHIPWRECK.

FALMOUTH, DEC. 9.-e-On Friday morning, the
weather being very dirty and thick, and a gale at
SSE., a schooner was observed in the bay off the
Swanpool, apparently entangled with the coast. By
half-past eight she was reported to be fast driving
on the rocks at the back of Gyllyngdune, be-
tween Pendennis Castle and Swanpool, and imme-
diately under the cliff, above which are the gardens
and mansion of the Rev. W. J. Coope, the rector
of this parish. She proved to be the Mary, of Dart-
mouth, of 123 tons, Thomas Jarvis, master, from
Acre, on the coast of Africa, 105 days, for this port
for orders. She had scarcely beyond half a cargo,
which consisted of palm oil, the property of Messrs.
Hutton and Sons, of London. Her crew were six in
number, of whom two were Africans, one of them aged
about 60 years. They bad been for 14 days on an allow-
ance of two spoonsful of flour daily. The vessel was
in a distressed state, having lost her canvas. On
Thursday night the Lizsrd Lights were made, hut
the next morning the appearance of the land, from
the state of the weather, could not be recognized.
About eight A.M. a pilot cutter offered assistance,
when the master requested to be informed what
amount would be expected. One of the people of the
cutter said 1501., but afterwards the parties appear
to have agreed to leave the amount of remuneration to
the adjudication of the underwriters, or the sub•com •
missionary of pilotage. The pilots then directed that
a hawser should be passed aft, that the cutter might
render assistance by towing, to get her out of her
perilous condition, she being every moment more and
more embayed ; this was not attended to, but whe-
ther from the exhausted state of the crew, or from the
vessel's sails blowing away, or any other cause, does
not appear. There is no doubt that much time was
lost during this interval, so much so, that ultimately
the pilots told the master to let go his anchors, for
assistance was then too late, she must go on shore.
The starboard anchor was then let go, but tco near
the shore to prevent the vessel being driven up to
within 100 yards of the cliff over the rocks, whereon
she beat heavily. It was now nine o'clock, and some
hundreds of persons had assembled at Gyllyndune,
and on the cliff, the waves dashing over
the vessel at each return, and the crew
making earnest gestures for assistance, clinging
to the side of the vessel. At length, by means
of a hawser passed to the shore, the mate ventured,
with considerable hazard to himself, and painful ex-
citement to the bystanders, to attempt to reach the
shore by it; and when midway, owing to the line not
traversing on the hawser, he became for some mo•
ments suspended, and with every lurch of the schooner
was dashed into the sea on the rocks; the remainder
were got on shore one by one in a barrel suspended'
by a hank to the hawser. On landing they were all
taken to the mansion of the Rev. W. J. Coope, for
refreshment and rest; in which act of benevolence
the ladies of the reverend gentleman's family took a
very prominent part, exposing themselves to the in-
clemency of the weather for some hours to welcome
one by one the shipwrecked mariners as they reached
the chore, and when conducted to their mansion not
being content but that they themselves must tend
them with provisions, &cc., and then requested that
those who were disposed should go to bed, of which
three took advantage, one of whom was an aged black.
This poor creature appeared to be more immediately
the object of commiseration from his benumbed
condition. It is said that during Thursday night
the awful weather to which the vessel was exposed
alarmed the fears of this aged African, who was in-
cessant in his invocations to John Wesley to save
him. The poor fellow had probably been under the
instruction of some Wesleyan missionary when in
Africa. The assistance rendered by_Mr. Coope was
incessant and extraordinary : with great personal risk
he directed the adoption of means for assisting the crew
to get on shore and in securing their property ; he re-
mained the entire day in the vicinity of the wreck or
on board. Mr. Jarvis and his crew desire to express
their unfeigned gratitude to Mr. Coope and his family
for their unexampled kindness.
By three o'clock in the afternoon the tide had left
the vessel, and the weather had cleared and mode-
rated, which enabled her stores to be landed. The
seamen's clothes, several parrots, and a monkey,
were deposited at the mansion. The vessel was
found to have lost her false keel, her rudder,
which was broken in two parts, stern-post started,
and had smashed her bottom from stem to stern.
Owing to the favourable weather on Saturday, 71
casks were got out of her, and taken up in lighters to
this town. Mr. Yemes, the master commander of
the Astrea, tendered all the assistance which the
guardship could afford; but it is next to an impossi-
bility that the vessel will ever come off from her
pre sent position.

LONDON SEWAGE.—A correspondent informs us
that the tunnel-sewer, now in course of formation across
Ludgate-hill, from Ave Maria-lane to Creed-lane, is for
the purpose of bringing down sewage matter to works
constructing at I'uddle•dock, where it will be treated by
the method patented by Mr. Higgs.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ended Dec. 9, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 7631.;
parcels, &c., 441.; goods, cattle, &c., 3591.; steam-boats,
69/.; Mold, 581.—Total, 1,2931.