The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

(From the Report ot rho ..ilegistrar-General.)
London is as healthy a is usual at this season of the
year. 1,026 deaths were registered in the week. The
average number of deaths in the corresponding week
of the ten years 1841-50 was 1,104 ; or 1,000 if we
correct for increase et population and exclude 2,865
deaths in the second week of September, 1849, when
the cholera was epidemic. In the last week there
was a death every ten minutes in London ; but the
population is now about 2,381,000, and the mortality
is therefore at the rate cf 1 in 2,381 weekly. The
births were 1,429, and exceeded the deaths by 403 ;
the population is increasing partly by immigration at
the rate of 42,000 a year, or 800 weekly.
535 males and 491 females died. The ages of four
persons were not reported; 198 only were of the
age of 60 and upwards, 3.59 were in the prime of
life, and 465 were children who had not attained the
age of 15. Oi the 1,026 deaths, 722 occurred on
the north, 304 on the south side of the Thames. 72
persons died in hospitals, 9 in lunatic asylums, 93 in
workhouses, 5 in prisons, 7 in military and naval
hospitals, and Bin military and naval asylums. No
persons died iu the hospitals for foreigners.
Diarthea, summer cholera, and fever are the pre-
vailing diseases ; fever is increasing ; cholera is
slowly, dierrlicea rapidly, declining. The deaths in
the last three weeks wore 2S, 17, 17 from cholera, and
174, 192, 101 from diarrhcei. 24 men and women
died of that painful disease• cancer, and 119 of con-
sumption, and 31 of heart disease ; eix women died
in childbirth. 59 violeut deaths are reported.
The following are the particulars of the deaths from
cholera referred to in the week ending Saturday, the
13th of September. The names are tlioe affixed to
the eves by the medical attendants :
In Kensington, St. Mary, Paddington, sub-dis-
trict, at 2, Woodfield-cottages, on the Bth of Sep-
tember, the wife of a metal organ-pipe maker, aged
35, " cholerhoid diarrho2a and bilious vomiting (3
days)."
In Kensington, Kensington-town sub-district, at
20, High-street, Notting-hill, on the 3d of Sep-
tember, the son of a draper, aged 9 months, " diar-
rhoea (10 days), cholera infantum (1 day)."
In _Hammersmith, St. Paul's, at 8, Mortimer-
terrace, Latymer-road, on the 11th of September, the
son of a carpenter, aged 17 days, " cholera infantum
(6 days), trismus mascentium (2 days)."
In Marylebone, All Souls' sub-district, at 71,Wells-
street, on the 9th of September, the son of a tailor,
aged 8 months, " cholera. infantum."
In Marylebone, Christ Church sub-district, at 5,
Providence-place, Lisson-grove, on the 9th of Sept.,
the stn of a hawker, aged 2 years "cholera infantum
(5 hours)."
In Marylebone, St. John's sub-district, at 57,
Finchley-road, on the Bth of September, the daughter
of a stationer, aged 1 year, " cholera (16 hours)."
In Holborn, St. Andrew, Eastern sub-district, at
41, Liquorpond-street, on the 9th of September, a
milkman, aged 62, " cholera (2 days), consecutive
fever (12 days)."
In Cripplegate, at 17, Redcross-street, on the sth of
September, the daughter of a baker, aged 7 years,
" cholera (12 hours)."
In the City, North-east sub-district, at 7, Cross-
key-court, London- wall, on the 7th of September,
the widow of a seaman, aged 71, " English cholera
(3 e-31.370."
In St. Saviour sub-district, at St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, on the sth of September, the daughter of a
labourer, aged 15 years, " cholera, tubercles in lungs."
In St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, Kent-road
sub-district, at 11, Stonecutters'-yard, on the 7th of
September, the son of a carman, aged 3 years, "En-
glish cholera (17 hours)."
In Newington, St. Mary sub-district, at 7, New-
street, on the 4th of September, the son of a shoe-
maker, aged 17 months, " cholera infantum (4
weeks)."
In Lambeth, at 28, Wood-street, on the sth of
September, a bookseller, aged 56, " cholera, with
disease of the liver."

In Lambeth, at 14, Vassall-road, on the 7th of
September, the wife of a warehouseman, aged 33,
" diarrhoea (7 days), cholera (5 days)."
In Woolwich Dockyard sub-district, at Charlton-
vale, on the 10th of September, a tailor, aged 25,
" English cholera (14 days).
In Woolwich Arsenal sub-district, at 138, High-
street, on the 11th of September, the son of a cheese-
monger, aged 5 weeks, " cholera (7 days).,,
In Lewisham village sub-district, at Rushy-green,
on the sth of September, the widow of a servant, aged
64, " English cholera (10 days)."
The subjoined cases are taken from the registrars'
reports :
In the Regent's-park sub-district, at 1, Henry-
street, on the sth of September, the widow of a
servant is stated to have died of " natural decay" at
the advanced age of 102.
In St. Pancras, Camden-town subdistrict, at 23,
Pratt-street, on the 9th of September, a bag-maker,
aged 72, "diarrhoea (10 days), dysentery (15 days),
exhaustion (5 days)." Mr. Holl remarks that
much disease, arising from the want of sanitary im-
provement, prevails in this place. The back yards are
below the level of the road, the cesspools at the bottom
of the yards are in a very foul state, and one of the
inhabitants keeps several pigs. The houses are
crowded by poor families, the majority of whom are
not of the most cleanly habits. These yards abut
upon the ground of a house in Acre-place; the back
of the privies alluded to forms a portion of the garden-
wall, and the stench from the cesspools is so great
that the family living i. ▪ n Acre-place are suffering
from fever and other disorders, which their medical
attendant asserts arise from the nuisance complained
of. The parish authorities▪ have been, applied to, but
nothing is done to remedy the evil.
In St. Pancras, Kentilh-town sub-district, at 18,
Haverstock 'street, Camden-town, on the 9th of
• September, the daughter of a labourer, aged 3 years,
" confluent small-pox (1 week), vaccinated 2 weeks
before death." Mr. Hacker adds, that " there are
seven persons ill with the same disease in this house.
I understand there is a dust-hole which is mast
offen-
sive from the occupiers neglecting to have it emptied."
Mr. Child, the registrar of Norwood sub-district,
states that "diarrhoea is preval-nt in the district,
more particularly in localities inhabited by the lower
classes, and those who keep swine in close confined i
places."