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exclusively in the
cholra deaths, which were 2,026, 1,682, and 839 in
the:three weeks. The deaths from cholera, which in
the% firs week of September were three and four
hundre a day, fell on the 19th to 110, and hive since
not e eeded 123.

ete facts which have been published hi-detail will,
it is believed, be found useful contributions to the
natural history of the epidemic. They will show the
regular course of the disease through a vast city
population; the influence of sex, age, profession, and
locality, and a great variety of circumstances on ita
mortality. It may be useful to point out now the
remarkable effects of locality on the fatality of the
epidemic, although the proportions may 3 et be altered
by subsequent deaths.
London is divided into 36 districts for registration
purposes, and the districts are subdivided ,into 135
sub•districts. The population was enumerated in
1841, and the nearest approximation that can be
easily given to the actual population is obtained by
assuming that the population increased in 1841-9 at
the same rate as from 1831 to 1841. Dividing the
deaths from cholera in the 13 weeks ending Septem-
ber 15, 1849, by the population thus estimated, the
following results are arrived at, and cannot be far
from the truth ;

More than 5 in 1,000 of the inhabitants of London
died of cholera ; the more accurate proportion was
53 in 10,000 inhabitants. From all causes the mor-
tality was 116: a rate which is equivalent to an
annual rate of 4.64 per cent.
35 in 10,000 of the inhabitants on the nortlfside of
the Thames died of cholera.

104 in 10,000 of the inhabitants on the south side
of the Thames died of cholera.

oa The ortality was therefore three times as great
on the', &side as it was on the north side of the
river. -),..l •
Milani:Mott inhabitants as the basis of compari-
son in ekb . • -et, the mortality ranged froth Bin
Hampsteol4-to 25 in Rotherhithe.
The liege north districts extend from the Edge.
ware-road to the river Lea; the mortality was, for
Marylebone, 15; St. Pancras,‘ 17; Islington, 20;
Hackney, 15. The mortality of .Marylebone and St.
Pancras is slightly raised by the Middlesex and
University College Hospitals. Some cholera patients
were sent out of Islington to the Free Hospital in St.
Pancras, where their deaths were registered.
The middle districts, extending in a curve from
Kensington to Bethnal-green, present generally a
much higher rate of mortality ; yet there are remark-
able exceptions. The mortality in Kensington dis-
trict, including Paddington and Fulham, was 19 ;
St. James, Westminster, only 12 ; St. Giles, 48 ;
Holborn, 28; Clerkenwell, 15 (5 less than Islington);
St. Luke, 30 ; Shoreditch, 65 ; Bethnal-green, 75.
St. James, Westminster, is a wealthy parish ; the
houses were rated at 691., on an average, in 1841.
The rookery and other ba'l streets contributed
among other things to raise the mortality of St.
Giles district to 48. Clerkenwell, extending across
the higher part of the New-road to Pentonville, has
lost only 15 in 10,000 ; St. Luke double the propor-
tion. The rated value of the houses, and probably
the income of the inhabitants, diminish rapidly in
passing from the west to the east parts of London.
The average rating of the houses in 1841 was,—for
St. James, Westminster, 691.; St. Giles, 481.; Hol-
born, 30/. ; St. Luke, 28/.; Shoreditch, 13/. ; Beth-
nal green, 81. The two last districts are poor, and
badly drained. Some of the deaths registered in
Shoreditch, in a certain sense, belong and have been
counted to the district of St. Luke, whose workhouse
' is in Shoreditch.

The river-side districts of the north present a
higher rate of mortality from cholera than the cor-
responding districts of the middle and outside range.
Chelsea lost 42 in 10,000 inhabitants ; Kensington, we
have seen, 19; St. George, Hanover-square, extending
from Oxford-street to the river, lost only 14 in 10,000;
and 71 out of the 106 deaths were in the Belgrave
sub-district. The mortality (57) was high
with less than half the population in the low West-
minster district ; St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the
Strand, rising fast from the banks of the river, lost
27 and 31 in 10,000 ; the city of London within the
walls, 33 ; the London city, east district, 38 ; the west
district, traversed by the Fleet ditch, 70 or 128, ac-
cordingly as we include or exclude the deaths in St.
Bartholomew's Hospital. At the close of the epidemic
these deaths may be distributed over the districts from
which the patients were brought; in the meantime,
the mortality of the City from cholera must lie between
43 and 57. Whitechapel lost 50 ; St. George-in-the-
East, Stepney, and Poplar, 35, 40, 67, the mortality
here being inversely as the density of the population.
Opposite the city and IVhitechapel lie on the other
side the Thames, St. Saviour, St. Olave, and St.
George, Southwark, where the mortality was 141,
151, 142 ; further east the mortality rises to 163
in Bermondsey and in Rotherhithe, intersected by
s'agnant water, reaches the maximum 225 in 10,00,
the -'north batik,opposite Bermondsey and
Rotherhithe, the deaths from cholera were only
35 and 40 in 10,000, yet the ordinary
rate of mortality in St. George's-in-the East is 2.89,
and of Rotherhithe 2.77 per cent. The mortality of
Greenwich, including Deptford and Woolwich, was
61 in 10,000 ; Camberwell and Newington 88 and
125, less than the mortality of districts on the south
river side, but much higher than even Shoreditch and
Bethnal-green. The Lambeth district extends from
the Thames to Norwood ; over this great area And
population the average mortality was 97 in 10,000.
The mortality from cholera of the river side parts of
Lambeth is as high as the mortality of St. Saviour,
St. Olave, &c. The parts on the south side the river
where the cholera has prevailed with so much violence
are below the Trinity high water mark. At Nor-
wood there were only two deaths by cholera; at
Dulwich, in Camberwell district, none; at Eltharn,
three; Sydenham five, in Lewisham district; so that
the mortality front cholera on the high ground, and
in the outer districts of Surrey on the south side the
Thames, was as low as in Hampstead, Kentish-town,
Stoke Newington, and Stamford hill.
The physical causes of cholera, or rather of the mor-
tality of cholera, may now be investigated in the soil,
atmosphere, and people, of the several districts of
London.

Ma. BRIGIIT, M.P.—This gentleman returned
from Ireland on Monday, having occupied upwards of a
month iu a tour of observation and inspection through-
out the south and west of that country. In the course
of his tour Mr. Bright has visited the counties of
Dublin, Wicklow. Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick,
Tipperary, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, and some
others. As might have been expected, the union work-
houses have been carefully visited, and the condition of
the peasantry and of the land has been extensively ob-
served. With regard to the existing relations between
landlord and tenant, we have reason to believe that Mr.
Bright has seen enough to convince him of the absolute
necessity of a law to give security to the tenant for the
improvements he may create ; and it is not improbable
that, should the Government refuse to legislate on this
all-important subject, Mr. Bright will be prepared to
bring tke matter before Parliament at the opening of
next session, backed by influential opinions from all
parts of Ireland. We should be glad to hear that
Eeglish Members in large numbers had been visiting a
country whose condition so much demands their atten-
tion.—ManchesternExaminer.
SUICIDE FROM STARVATION.—Last night an in-
quest was held before Mr. F. S. Langharn, deputy-coro-
ner, at the Aran Arms, New Bond-street, touching the
death of John Jenkins, aged 37 years, a gentleman's
coachman, who destroyed himself under the following
very melancholy circumstances:—From evidence deposed
to by the witnesses, it appeare that the deceased lived at
No. 17, Lancashire-court; he had been out of employ-
ment since May last, and was reduced to very great
distress, and iu want of the common necessaries of life.
Ail his and his wife's wearing apparel had been pledged
to obtain food, and for several days last week they had
no coals to make a fire or any food to eat. It preyed
very heavily on deceased's mind, who refused to allow
his wife to apply to the parish. The deceased had not
tasted anything for several days, and his mind appeared
to be affected. Ile remained in bed, and never spoke to
his wife or children. On Sunday morning last he got up
and went down stairs; shortly afterwards his wife dis-
covered that ho had hung himself, with his child's skip-
ping rope, to an area railings. One of the jurors re-
marked that one of the decessed'a children came into his
shop on Saturday last, and asked for some bread and
butter, and said his mother was crying at home and bad
nothing to eat. Ile said he had not tasted food for two
days. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
SINGULAR ATMOSPHERIC PiIEIsOMENON.—The at-
mosphere on Saturday afternoon was singularly clear,
although the sky was covered with clouds, so as to ax-
elude the rays of the sun, except here and there asmall
patch. The writer of this paragraph was taking a walk
on the outer part of the race-course, and on looking
hack tawar ds the town ati s surprised to bind tne Lie of
Wight apcearing with es much distinctness as the ordi-
nary aspect of Worthing from the Brighton cliffs. The
high ground of the .New Forest i)rleiel Southarnpti n
Water, way also a; plaiely discernibl, as is usir.lfy Hight
Down-bill, beyorai Worteinv., a hro viewed from 13i ign•
ton. A shepherd, who had spent on these hills neatly,
the whole of fifty year,, which constLuted the tittrattiin
of his life, declared that he hail never seen the su
distinctly.—Brightan !,oxeye.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—An anonymous door,
under the signature o" Z ," bai p•es•rved to the
.So-
ciety for the Propagafion th- G ,spel in Foreign
Paris the munificent donation of 2,6001. in thci Thlce-
and-a-liitli per Cent. Consols, "lo i.e applied towards
the Funds of the Colonial Bishopr,cs' ELdoa ment
Fund."
CURIOSITIES FROM Ttih CAPE'--A vessel arrived in
he dock frem Algt a Bay, Cup. of Goral Hop., hiss
brought 33 casks of curiosities, consigned to order. The
same vessel brought fifteen packages of sea-cow hesda
(so termed), which appears man a 4pgular inortaticni
4130 that Flee.

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THE HEALTH OF LONO
7 ,--- DURING THE WEEK.
• \ (From the Registrar- General's Re n.)
The mortality from cholera has idly declineT,
tardeaths from all causes re - ed in London
hiee weeks endin
. 22, were 3,160, 2,8,
crease has been exclusively in 1
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