The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-05 00:00:00

continuance of the gallows, but I believe, with one of
our most exquisite of living poets, that
" The child is father to the man."

And while children are allowed to grow up into men,
ignorant of everything in the nature of moral or re-
ligious discipline, and to pursue, unchecked, the bent
of their own rude instinctive desires, I am constrained
to look upon it as one of those necessary evils which
time and advancA civilization can alone destroy.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT HOWARD.

HEALTH OF LONDON during the WEEK.
(From the Registrar-Generals Return.)
In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths
registered in the metropolitan districts were 931.
The return continues to show a considerable decrease
on the weekly average, which is 1,162, as calculated
for increase of population, from the mortality of
former autums ; but it exhibits a slight increase on
the returns of the five weeks immediately preceding;
(luring the greater part of November the deaths
fluctuated between 837 and 89:3. The increase is
apparent in deaths caused by diseases of the respira-
tory organs ; whooping cough carried eff23 children,
about double the number of the previous week ;
pneumonia 94 t ersons (of whom 78 were under 15
years of age), being an increase of 12 on the previous
week; asthma, 21, an increase of 9; and phthisis 134,
an increase of 30. The deaths from all epidemic
diseases were 173, whilst the autumnal average is
307. The fatal cases of typhus have declined to 35 ;
those of diarrhoea and dysentery were 20; and only
1 death is returned as caused by cholera, and in this
case the deceased sank under debility, the consequence
of two attacks of the disease which she had suffered
previously. She was a women of 27 years, and died
in the south-west sub-district of the city of London.
A case is recorded in which the fatal diseases atrophy
and icterus were the result of intemperance. Twelve
women died after childbirth.
In the returns for the weeks ending September 22
and 29 diagrams were published showing the deaths
from cholera to every 10,000 inhabitants, in each dis-
trict of London. A tabular statement is now given
showing the mortality from cholera in 58 weeks in
each of the sub-districts into which London is
divided ; the population of each sub-district, the
deaths from cholera to every 10,000 inhabitants, and
the number of inhabitants to every death. To take
a few examples :—Lambeth contains eight sub-
divisions :—in Waterloo-road (first part) the deaths
to 10,000 of the population were 159 ; in Waterloo-
road (second part) they were 145; in Lanilieth
Church (first part) they were 118. These places are
in the neighbourhood of the river, but the sub-
districts which are more remote present more favour-
able results; for in Kennington the deaths were
110 to 10,000 inhabitants; in Brixton they
were seventy-nine, and in Norwood only seven.
Wandsworth and Camberwell also exhibit the
greatest contrasts in the comparison of the sub-
districts into which they are severally divided, the
deaths ranging from 17 in 10,000 in Putney to 175
its Battersea, and 182 in Streatham and Tooting;
from 5 in Dulwich to 182 in Camberwell (sub-dis •
trict). In St. George's, Hanover-square, the Belgrave
sub- district, which is of low situation, suffered a
mortality of 33 in 10,000, while the average of
portions more favourably situated was not more
than 8. In St. James's, Bermondsey, the rate of
mortality was 208 deaths ; in Rotherhithe 270. The
above are some of the general results, but in the
table the sub-districts which contain workhouses,
hospitals, and other public institutions, are distin-
guished, as allowance must be made for persons taken
into them from other districts, after they had been
attacked by the disease.
The mean height of the barometer in the week was
29.803 ; the daily mean was above 30 inches on Tues-
day. The mean temperature of the week was 34 deg.
5 min., and was lower than the average of the same
week in seven years by 9 deg. 1 min. On Wednes-
day the daily mean was less than the average by 17
deg. 5 min.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEER ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1849.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... *173
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 45
Tubercular Diseases ...
... 170
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... .. 118
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 34
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
... 194
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 8,1.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations...
•••
Premature Birth ...
Atrophy
Old Age
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

... 50

... 20
... 24
45

931