The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-05 00:00:00

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

Ponulation
Enumerated,
1841.
West Districts... 300,711
North Districts.. 375,971
o.ntral Dist-icts 373 653
East Districts ... 392,444
South Districts.. 501,190

T0ta15........ 1,948,425
Males ... ...
Females ... ...

Average weekly DeathS
Deaths, 1842-6. in the
Five Autumns. Week.
146 ... 256
184 ... 271
196 ... 278
232 ...
238 405

Males
Females

1,046

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Total ..

1,599
, 845
754

... 1,452

The improvement in the public health during the
week which closed the year 1847, after a season un-
usually fatal, is not equal to the expectation which the
previous report of the Registrar-General tended to
create. There were registered in last week 1,599
deaths, showing an increase above the preceding
week of 352, and an excess on the average of 553.
It must be observed, however, that in the mortality
from epidemic influenza, properly so called, there
is a decrease of 15, the deaths from this cause
being 127, whilst in the previous week they were
142. In the last week typhus caused 74 deaths.,'
in the former week 83. The diseases to whose in-
creased activity the mortality of last week is prin-
cipally ascribed, are measles, phthisis, imflammation
of the lungs and air passages. Deaths from all
diseases of the respiratory organs were 497, about 100
more than in the former week. This increase is
partly accounted for by the great fall of temperature,
which occurred on Wednesday the 29th ult. The
lowest reading of the thermometer on that day was
26 deg. 5 min. ; on the previous day it had been
33 deg. The mean temperature of the last two
weeks was about 35 deg.; that of the previous month
was upwards of 46 deg. It is reasonable to suppose
that some time would elapse before the effect of in-
creased cold became visible in an increase of mor-
tality.

The following observations on the weather are
added to the return :

On Sunday, December 26, the temperature of the
air early in the morning was 37 deg. 5 min., which
decreased to 36 deg. 2 min. by Bh. A.M., and increased
to 37 deg. 2 min. by lh. P.M., at which value it re-
mained for some hours, and decreased to 34 deg. by
midnight. On Monday it was 33 deg. till 8h A.M., it
then slowly increased to 38 deg. by noon ; at lh. P.M.
it was 36 deg. 5 min., at which value it continued
without change till midnight. On Tuesday, Dec. 28,
the temperature of the air was 36 deg. 5 min. early
in the morning, which decreased to 35 deg. 6 min.
by 7h. A.M. ; at Bh. A.M. some snow fell, being the
first which has fallen this season at this part of the
country ; after this some rain fell, and at Ih. P.M.
some hail fell; the temperature of the an at ,Ilzr
time was 36 deg. 5 min., _which d.^.;reased to
35 deg. 2 min., by 3h. P.M., ane. co 33 deg. by,
sh. P.M., at which value it continued till riid-
night. During a part of the morning of Wed-
day the sky was partially free from cloud, and the
temperature of the air descended to 26 deg. 5 mit., a
point lower than any since the 18th day of April,
1847, and at the time a thermometer placed on grass
read 19 deg.; at 11h. A.M. the temperature of the air
was 33 deg. ; lh. P.M. it was 35 deg., and it con-
tinued to increased slowly till sh. At., at which time
it was 36 deg., and it continued at this value till after 7h.
P.M. ; at Bh. P.M. it was 35 deg., and after 9h. P.M. it
began to increase, and was 37 deg. 5 min. at mid-
night. On Thursday, December 30, the temperature
of the air was 38 deg. till 7h. A.M., after which it
ircreased to 40 deg. by 11h. A.M.; it then began to
decrease, and was 39 deg. at noon ; and was %7 deg.
at lh. P.M.; at 2h. P.M., the direction of the wind
was south, and it then veered by the east to the north
by 2h. 30m. P.M., and the temperature decreased
to 35 deg., and still further decreased till 6h. P.m.,
at which time it was 34 deg.; it then began to in-
crease, and was 38 deg. at midnight. Rain was fall-
ing on this day from Bh. A.M. till 2h. p.m., at times
rather heavily. On Friday, December 31, there was
only a change of 21 deg. in the temperature of the
air throughout the day, and its average value was
35 deg. 3 min. The day was gloomy and dull. Or
Raturday, January 1, 1848, the temperature of th.,
air aas 31 des. 5 min. early in the morning, which
increased to 38 deg. by 2h P.M., and decreased to
32 deg. by Gh. F.M. (at this time the sky was par-
tially free from cloud); at 7h. F.M. it was 34 deg.,
and it continued at this value till midnight, the sky
being overcast during this interval; and at times a
thin misty rain was falling. The general character
of this week has been in almost all particulars
similar to that of the preceding week ; its tempera-
tures have, however, been somewhat lower. The
average temperature of the air for each day was as
follows :

Sunday, 35 deg. 7 min ; Monday, 35 deg. 3 min.
Tuesday, 34 deg. 7 min. ; Wednesday, 31 deg. 3
; Thursday, 37 deg. 5 win. ; Friday, 35 deg. 8
min. ; and Saturday, 34 deg. 3 min.
The difference of temperature during each day has
been small; it was as follows :—Sunday, 3 deg. 3
min.; Monday, 5 deg. 5 min. ; Tuesday, 3 deg. 5
win.; Wednesday, 9 deg. 5 min. ; Thursday, 5 deg.
0 min.; Friday, 2 deg. 5 min. ; Saturday, 5 deg. 7
min. The difference of temperature during the
week was 13 deg. 5 min., the extremes being 26 deg.
5 min. and 40 deg. During the week the sky was,
with very slight exceptions, wholly covered by
cirrostratus, awl therefore the period between De-
cember 19, 1847, at 7h. P.M., and Jan. 1, 1848, at
midnight, was remarkable for the clouded state of the
sky, and it is the longest period of cloudy weather in
the year 1847. The air during the week was com-
pletely saturated with moisture, and at all times, ex-
cept on Wednesday, it was nearly in th?f, state, sew
that the temperature of the dcw point has been litt.!2
below that of the air. The following is its average
value each

Sunday, 33 deg. 1 min.; Monday, 31 deg. 1 min. ;
Tuesday, 32 deg. 1 min.; Wednesday, 26 deg. 5 min.;
Thursday, 35 deg. 5 min. ; Friday, 33 deg. 4 min.;
and Saturday, 32 deg. 5 min.; consequently, the
average amount of water contained within a cubic
foot of air was as follows :

Sunday, 2.5 gr.; Monday, 3.3 gr.; Tuesday, 2.5
gr. ; Wednesday, 2.0 gr.; Thursday, 2•C gr. ; Friday,
2.5 gr. ; Saturday, 2.4 gr. The air has been in gentle
motion, and it has passed from the north and east,
except in parts of Wednesday and Thursday, when it
passed from the south.

PROCLAMATION OF OUTLAWRY.—The following
persons were yesterday called upon to surrender, under
process of outlawry, by Mr. Kemp, the bailiff to the
sheriff of Middlesex, at Hicks's-hall ; the list will
be appended at the doors of the parish churches on Sun-
day next:—Charles Henry Burgess, late of Hampstead,
at the suit of Richard Hart ; Crewe Read, of No. I, St.
Alban's-place, Regent-street, at the suit of Henry C.
Curlewis ; the lion. Henry Stanley, late of 36, York-
terrace, Regent's-park, at the suit of George Merrett
and others ; the Rev. William Cuthbert (clerk), late of
No. 16, Abbey road, St. John's-wood, at the suit of
John Carlow ; Erie 'Baker, late of 29, Upper Brook-
street, Grosvenor square, at the suit of James Watts
Peppercorne and others ; and Henry Arundel!, late of
Dover street, Piccadilly, at the suit of Walter Beckett.
REPEAL OF THE WINDOW-TAX.—Last night ,
numerous and influential meeting of the members of th
St. James's Parochial Association, rate-payers and othr
inhabitants of the parish, took place at the Crown T
vcrn, Broad-street, Golden-square, to take into co
sideration and adopt the best measures for obtaining
total abolition of the tax upon windows. Mr. Chu.
warden Geesin, having been unanimously voted
in •
chair, stated that for fourteen years he had, c
Lion with the other metropolitan delegates ass,
at the Marylebone Court-house, been
agitating the
.14. unjust impost. uring the
i
peal of this unhealthfullthful
4 consequence of the alteration taking
last two sessions, r
place in the corr 4-laws, and the calamity that fell upon
Ireland, being considered subjects of greater and more
paramount jr .nportance, the subject had not been presser! upon Minis' cers; a report had, however, been prepared,
showing t' .ne unjust and odious operation of the tax
which would be placed in the hands of every Membe
of tl• -ie House of Commons, in which Lord Duncan wou.t,
F,ive notice of motion for the immediate and total repeat.
of the window tax, on its reassembling. A resolution
made by Mr. Hewington and seconded by Dr. Butt,
calling on the church wardensto convene a public meet-
ing of the Vestry, to petition both Houses of Parliament
for a total repeal of the window tax, without which may
sanitary measures would ,be incomplete, having :been
carried by acclamation, and thanks voted to the Chair-
man, the meeting separated.
PIG IRON.—GLASGOW, SATURDAY, JAN. 1.--The•
holidays have made this a week almost blank of busi-.
ness. Little, indeed, has been offering, but for such:
transactions as have taken place prices may be consi-
dered firm as follows :-465. per ton for No. 3,4%., for mixed numbers, and 48s. for No. 1, cash. The c‘oru-
p,suted make of pig iron in Scotland during the last year-
jus t closed has been 480,000 tons, and the present.
amount of stock in store and makers' hands is 80,000.
The prices given above are from 225. to 245. per ton_
above the average for the last three Years.

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