The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

Dromedary
Ainderby filly ...
Selling Handicap of 15 sovs. each. T.Y.C.

... 1
... 2

The Probe

P‘ndulttna filly ...

... 2

Sweepstakes; whiner to be sold for 40. T.Y.C.
Montpenbier
lone ... ...

Plate. T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 3501.

Strongbow

Falcon , ... 2
Sweepstakes for two yrs old; winner to be sold for 701.
Malibran filly Cie ... ~. ... .. 1
General Seidlitz ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 2

HEALTH of LONDON during the WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
In the week ending last Saturday the number of
deaths registered in London is 1,028, and shows a
further decrease on the returns of previous weeks.
The weekly average of five previous autumns, cor-
rected for increase of population, is 1,162; the de-
crease on the average, as shown by the present return,.
amounts therefore to 134 deaths. This reduction of
the mortality is greatest in the districts on the south
side of the river ; for the deaths of the week in this
division were 276, whereas the average is 324. The
mortality from cholera now rapidly approaches the
average, the deaths having fallen from 110 in the
previous week to 41 in the last. In the west districts
they have declined from 15 to 4 ; in the north, from
7 to 1 ; in the central, from 10 to 6 ; in the
east, from 32 to 17 ; and in the south from 46
to 13. There were five deaths in each of the
districts of Shoreditch and Bethnal-green ; in all
others the number of fatal cases of the epidemic
was still less. In the whole metropolis the daily
number did not, in any instrnce, exceed 9 ; on 'Wed-
nesday and Saturday it was only 5. The deaths from
diarrhcea and dysentery were more numerous, and
amounted in the week to 63 ; in the previous weak
they were 105. Of the 14,538 persons who have
died of cholera in London in 55 weeks, 6,657, or
nearly one-half, died after less than one day's illness
(exclusive of the duration of premonitory diarrhoea) ;
and of the remainder 2,466 sank under the disease be-
fore it had reached the second day.
At present small-pox and measles are much less
fatal than usual; scarlatina was fatal in 41 cases, the
average being 64 ; typhus in G 3 cases, the average
being 56.
The reading of the barometer reached 30.04 in. on
Thursday at 9 o'clock A.M.; the mean of the week was
29.89. The mean daily temperature increased from
43 deg. on Sunday to 59 deg. 7 min. on Thursday,
and continued at nearly this value during the rest of
the week. The highest temperature was 69 deg.
7 min. on Friday. On the first three days of the
week the mean temperature was below the average of
corresponding days in seven years; in the last three
days it was about 12 deg. above the average. The
mean of the week was 52 deg. 4 min.

CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA

ENGLAND AND WALES.

The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diaraoca, reported to the General Board of Health
October 23, 1849 :
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Maul:.

Bedford and Turvey
Bradford and Nethertown
13tidgewater
Burton-on-Trent ...
Carmarthen . .
Criekhowe 11 (Llanguniden)
Dartford (Swanscombe)
Dudley (St.dgley and Rowley
Regis) ••• •••
Eceleshall (Bierlow)
Elham (Hy the) ..•
Farnham ••• •••
Iludderifield (Almondbury and

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