The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-27 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC REAM!:

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The following is the weekly return by the
Registrar-General of Births and Deaths in Lon-
don and in ten other large towns of the United
Kingdom :

General Register-office, Somer.set-house,
January 24.

In the week that ended on Saturday, the 22d
inst., 5,166 births and 3,831 deaths were registered
in London and 19 other large towns of the United
Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per
thousand persons living, and the same as in the
previous week.

The annual rates of mortality last week in the
17 English cities and boroughs, ranged in order
from the lowest, were as follows :-19 per 1,000 in
Wolverhampton, 19 in Bradford, 21 in Huh, 24
in Portsmouth, 22 in Norwich, 23 in Leicester,
23 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 24 in Sunderland,
25 in Birmingham, 26 i❑ Leeds, 26 in Liverpool,
27 in London, 30 in Salford, 31 in Manchester,
31 in Nottingham, 31 in Sheffield, and, the
highest rate during the week, 37 per 1,000 in
the city of Bristol. Scarlet fever showed an in-
creased fatality last week in London, Sheffield, and
Leeds, but had declined in several of the other
large towns. The greatest mortality from this dis-
ease last week occurred in Ecel, sall Bierlow sub-
district of Sheffield borough, which, from an esti-
mated population of about 56,000 persons, returned
36 deaths, of which 18 were fatal cases of scarlet
fever. In these 17 large English towns 247 deaths
were referred to scarlet fever last week, against 241
and 218 in the two previous weeks. Whooping
cough continues somewhat fatally prevalew:in
Manchester and Salford and in Birmingham.

The deaths registered last week in Edinburgh
were at the annual rate of 36 per 1,000 persons
living, in Glasgow 38 per 1,000, and in Dublin 29.
Scarlet fever shows au increasing fatality in Dublin,
and resulted in 15 deaths last week.

In the week ending last Saturday the deaths re-
gistered in Paris showed an annual death-rate of
27 per 1,000 persons living. The deaths in Berlin
in the seven days ending Thursday, the 20th inst.,
gave an annual rate of 28 per 1,000, and in
Vienna during the week ending the 15th inst. of 28
per 1,000. Smallpox is very prevalent in Paris, and
caused 48 deaths last week, against 40 and 27 in
the two previous weeks. In London the deaths
from smallpox in the three past weeks have, to-
gether, not exceeded 28.

In London the births of 1,130 boys and 1,109
girls, in all 2,239 children, were registered last
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years
1860-69 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,283.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,652. It was the third week of the year,
and the average number of deaths for the week is,
with a correction for increase of population, 1,794.
The deaths iu the present return are less by 142
than the estimated number.

The deaths from zymotic diseases were 374, the
corrected average number being 358. Eight deaths
from smallpox, 41 from measles, 143 from scarlet
fever, 8 from diphtheria, 55 from whooping-cough,
12 from typhus fever, 12 from enteric (or typhoid)
fiver, 15 from simple continued fever, and 15 from
diarrhoea were registered.
The registrar of the Trinity sub-district of St.
Saviour, Southwark, remarks, in reference to a
fatal case of smallpox, which occurred at 10, har-
per-street :—" There have been four cases of small-
pox in this family, none vaccinated, the parents ob-
jecting. The street is fully populated."
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A builder, aged 31 years, died on the 14th of
January at 135, Bridport-place, Hoxton Old Town,
from " relapsing fever."
The deaths from scarlet fever were 29 in excess
of the number recorded in the preceding week ; 18
cases occurred in the West District, 27 in the
North, 15 in the Central, 31 in the East, and 52 in
the South Districts.

Plithisis and pneumonia were not so fatal as in
the previous week, but the deaths from bronchitis

exhibit an increae.

The deaths of seven children and one adult from
burns or scalds, and two persons from drowning,
of eight infants from suffocation, and of eight per-
61.11Cidli were registered.