The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-14 00:00:00

HEA £TII OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
Since the middle of April, when, in a❑ improved state
of the temperature, the deaths in London were reduced
to little more than 1,040 in a week, the mortality hag
shown some tendency to increase. Last week the deaths
rose to 1,154, the effect, probably, of atmospheric change;
the mean weekly temperature, which had risen to 48 5
deg., having afterwards fallen to 41'3 deg. In the ten
weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1846-55
the average number of deaths was 1,009, which, if raised
proportionally to increase of population, becomes 1,110.
Hence it appears that the rate of mortality last week
was above the average.
This return exhibits an increase in the deaths on those
of previous weeks at all periods of life except the third,
namely, that which extends from 40 to 60 years of age.
Those which occurred to persons under 20 years amount
to 557, being not much less than half of the total num-
ber returned. Thirty-nine persons had arrived at 80
years or more, and of thes3 8 were nonagenarians. A.
man, one of the Dulwich collegians, was 93 years old ;
a widow in the workhouse of St. George-in-the-East was
95 years ; the widow of a labourer at Putney was 97
years ; the widow of a farmer, who died in Kennedy-
court, St. Gile=, was 93 years ; and a spinster at East
Dulwich•road bad attained the great age of 99 years. It
is stated respecting the person last-mentioned that she
retained her sight and hearing till within two months of
her death, and that she has two sisters now living in
Ireland whose respective ages are 93 and 96 years.
The deaths caused by typhus and common fever were
48, a number which is less than that in any of the three
previous weeks. On the other hand, hooping-cough, from
wh ch there were 43 (besides 14 from croup), and scar-
latina, from which there were 35, discover an increase.
Five infants and an adult died from syphilitic disease.
Five women died of puerperal fever, besides 7 who sunk
under other illness accompanying childbirth. Phthisis
was fatal to 173 persons. The deaths of 7 men in the
Royal Artillery, which occurred in the Royal Ordnance
Hospital between the 19th of April and 7th of May,
were caused by this disease--consumption.
Last week the births of 886 boys and 815 girls, in all
1,701 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846.55 the average
number was 1,521.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29195 in. ; the
mean, on Friday, was 30.015 in. The highest reading
occurred on that day, and was 30.04 in. The mean
temperature was higher than in the preceding week ; it
was 44.3 deg., which is 7.7 deg. below the average of
the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaishez.) The mean daily temperature rose slightly
above the average on Saturday, but on all the previous
days it was much below the average, the extent of de-
pression having varied from 7 deg. to 11 deg. On Satur-
day the thermometer in the shade rose to 681 deg., the
highest reading in the week ; on the same day, in the
sun, it rose to 90.1 deg. The lowest reading in the
shade in the week was 29'8 deg. on Monday, and the
entire range was consequently 38'5 deg. The mean dew-
point temperature was 36.9 deg., and the difference be-
tween this and the mean temperature of the air was 7'4
deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames
was 49 deg. The wind was in the north-east and east
till Wednesday afternoon ; thereafter it blew constantly
from the north. The amount of horizontal movement
of the air on Wednesday was 306 miles ; and the pres-
sure on the square foot, as measured by Osler'e anemo-
meter was 101 b. Rain to the amount of 012 in. fell
on the same day.

MORTATiITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WRP,W ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 10.
Zymotic Diseases ........... , 236
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases . .............. 234
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ............ 125
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 52
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
179
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion . ...........
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.. ,
62
Diseases
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h and Debility 37
Atrophy 4O
Old .Age
40
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 22
Causes not specified

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES 1,154
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths.
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. Of 1855. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts ...... 616,635

Totals
Ma1e5..................................... 585
Females .................................... 569
BIRTHS IN TIIE WEEK.
_ _

Males —
Females

88G
815

Total

130011 RELIEF IN IBELAND.—The total expenditure in
Irerand (luring the year ended Michaelmas-day, 1855,
for the 'relief of 269,800 paupers relieved in-doors, and
35,43:1 out-of-doors, amounted to the sum of 683.5071.
The cost of the in-maintenance was 432,8411. ; that of
the rout-relief, 4,701/. ; the salaries of officers and their
rations, 119,8321. ; and all other expenses, 126,2191
The, valuation was 11,565,4601., and the average pound-
age 4 of the expenditure on the valuation le, ad. -