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London, England, 1849-09-26 00:00:00

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ALTH OF LONDON
RING THE WEEK.
?,egistrar- General's Return.)
'rem cholera has rapidly_ declined..
11 causes registered in London in
'ding Sept. 22, were 3,160, 2,842,
.ecrease has been exclusively in the
cholera deaths, which were 2,026, 1,682, and 839 hi
the three weeks. The deaths from choleia, which in
the first week of September were three and font
hundred a day, fell on the 19th to 110, and have since
not exceeded 123.

The facts which have been published in 'detail will,
it is believed, be found useful contributions to the
natural history of the epidemic. Tbey will show tte
regular course of the disease through a vast city
population; the infliienceof sex, age, profession, and
locality, and a great variety of circumstances on its
mortality. It may be useful to point out now tho
remarkable effects of locality on the fatality of the
epidemic, although the proportions may 3ot be altercd
by subsequent deaths.
London is divided into 36 districts for registration
purposes, and the districts are sub-divided into 135
sub•districts. The population was enumerated in
1841, and the nearest approximation that can he
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 Sep'Em-
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-
talicy was 116: a rate which is equivalent to an
annual rate of 4 64 per cent.
35 in 10,000 of the inhabitants on tl.e north side of
the Thames died of cholera.

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

The mortality was therefore three times as great
on the south side as it was on the north side of the
river.

Taking 10,000 inhabitants is the hash' of cotnpaTi•
son in each dintricr, the mortality ranged from 8 in
Hampstead to 225 inßotherhithe. _ _

The large north districts extend from the Edge-
ware-road to the river Lea; the mortality was, for
Marylehone, 15 ; Sr. Pancras, 17; Islington, 20;
Hackney, 15. The mortality of Narylebone and t.
Pancras is slightly raised by the Middlesex and
University College Hospitals. Some cholera patients
were st nt 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
touch higher rate of mortality ; yet there are remark-
able exceptions. The mortality in Kensington die-
t: ict, including Paddiuwon and Fulham, was 19 ;
St. James, Westminster, only 12 ; St. Gies, 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 an other bail streets contributed
among other things to raise the mortality of St.
Giles district to 48. Clcikenwell, extending across
the higher part 0, the New road to Pentonville, has
lost only 15 in 10,C00; 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 hou-es 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. Scme 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 10,600 inhabitants ; KE nsington, Vk
have seen,]; St. Gewge, 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.
Bartholumew'a Hospital, At the'close of the epidemic
th'se deaths may be distributed over the districts front
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 Whitechapel 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
stagnant water, reaches the maximum 225 in 10,C0J,
or 2k per cent. It will be observed that on

the north bank, opposite Bermondsey and
Rotherbithe, 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 ar.d
125, less than the mortality of districts on the south
river side, but much higher than even Shoreditch and
Bethnal-green. The Latnbeth 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 hss 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 Elthatn,
three; Sydenham five, in Lewisham district; so that
the mortality from cholera on the high ground, and
in the outer districts of Surrey on the south side tie
Them►s, 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.

MR, BRIGHT, M.P.—This gentleman returned
from Ireland on Monday, having occupied upwards of a
month in a tour of observation and inspection through-
out t,,e south and west of that country. In the course
of his tour Mr. Bright has visited the counties of
Dublie, Wicklow. W. xford, 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 °b-
ee sved. With regard to the existing relations betwt en
landlord and tenant, we have reason to believe that Mr.
Might Las seer. enough to convince him of the absshres
necessity of a law to give security to the tenant tor 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 the matter before Parliament at the opening of
next cession, backed by influential opinions from all
parts of Ireland We should be glad to bear that
Eeglish Members in large numbers had been visiting a
country whose condition so much demands their at.e..-
tion.—Manchester.Examiner.
SUICIDE FROM STARVATION.—List night an in-
quest was held before Mr. F. S. Laugham, deputy•coro•
ner, at the Aran Arms, New Bond-street, touching the
death of John Jenkins, aged 37 years, a gentleman's
coachman, who ee,troytd nimself 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 bad been out of employ-
ment since May last, and was reduced to very great
distress, and in want of the common necessaries of life.
All 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 cat. It prey, d
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. He 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 digs
covered that he had hung himself, with his child's skip-
Ong rope, to an area railings. One of the jurors re-
marked that one of the deceased's children came into his
shop on Saturday last, and asked for some bread and
butter, and said his mother was crying at home and had
nothing to eat. He said he had not tasted food for two
days. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
SINGULAR ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON... The at-
mosphere on Saturday afternoon was singularly clear,
although the sky was covered with clouds, so as to «x-
-elude the rays of the sun, except here and there a small
patch. The writer of this paragraph was taking a walk
on the outer part of the race-course, and on looking
back tawards the town was surprised to find the Isle of
Wight appearing with as much distinctness as the ordi-
nary aspect of Worthing from the Brighton cliffs. The
high ground of the \.•w Forest beyond Southampton
Water,
was &so as plainly discernible as is usually High
Down-hill, beyond Worthing, when viewed from Brigh-
ton. A shepherd, who had spent on these hills neat ly
the whole of fifty years, which constituted the duration
of his life, declared that he had never seen the island so
distinctly.—Brighton Gazette.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—An anonymous donor,
under the signature of "Z," has presented to the
So-
ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts the munificent donation of 2,0001. in the Thi co-
and-a-Half per Cent. Consols, "to he applied towards
the Funds of the Colonial Bishoprics Endowment

Ftind
CURIOSITIES FROM THE CAPE.—A. vessel arrived in
he docks from Algez 'lay, Cape of Good }lope, his
brought 33 casks of curiosities, consigned to order. The
same vessel brought fiat el' vackages of sea-cow hehda
(so termed), which appears rather a singular importation
from that place.