The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-06 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(Prom the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The rate of mortality in London is still below the ave•
rage rate which the inhabitants have suffered in former
summers. 1,025 deaths were registered in the week
that ended on Saturday, Aug. 2, while the corrected
average of the week is 1,259, or, omitting the week of pre-
vious years when cholera was epidemic, 1,102. Of the
persons who died 515 were females, 510 males ; and in
previous week the deaths of females exceeded the deaths
of males• Although the females living in London greatly
exceed the males in numbar, the deaths are generally in
the inverse proportion.

Of 1,025 deaths 595 occurred at ages under 20 Team ;
152 were of the age 20-40 ; 120 were 40-60 ; 123
were 60-80 ; and 27 were of the age of 80 years and
upwards. Two old widows, one of 95, the other of 96
years, died in Hackney.
Of the 152 deaths at the age of 20-40, 66 were re-
ferred to consumption (phthisis), 5 to diseases of the re-
spiratory organs. In the aggregate 224 deaths in the
week were referred to these causes.
Diarrhea is the prevailing disease of the week ; it
killed 125 persons ; namely, 94 infants under a year
old, 17 children of the age 1.2, and 2 of the age 2-3, and
3 of the age 5.10, 9 adults of the age of 20 and upwards;
89 of the deaths were on the north, 36 on the south side
of the Thames. To cholera 16 deaths are referred ; 12
children under 5 years of age died of this disease, the
rest were adults.
The cleansing operations in the streets and houses
should proceed at the same accelerated rate as putrefac-
tion, in this hot weather. When diarrhoea comes on it
requires immediate attention.
Medical informants are requested to state in all cases
the precise time that intervenes between the stage of
diarrhoea and collapse in cholera cases.
During the week the births of 869 boys and 870 girls,
in all 1,739 children, were registered in London. In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the aye-
age number was 1,431.
The wind blew generally from the south-west and
south east during the week, which opened in clouds and
rain, but became bright and cloudless on Thursday, Fri-
day, and Saturday. Electricity was positive and gene-
rally of moderate tension. The barometer was 30.006 in.
on an average, and did not fluctuate to any extent. The
heat was excessive for this climate ; the mean highest
day temperature was 82.4 deg., the maximum was
early 90 deg. (89.8 deg.) in the shade on Saturday; the
mean lowest night temperature was 56.1 deg., and the
mean temperature of the week was 67.6 deg., or 5.4
deg. above the average. The highest temperature in
the enn rose progressively from 95.4 deg. on Sunday
to 111.0 deg. on Saturday. The mean temperature
of the Thames at Greenwich was 68.5 deg.. The
air was excessively dry during the sunlight of the last
three days, and dew could only have been deposited on
Thursday in the day time by a fall of 25.4 deg. of tem-
perature ; at night the air was nearly saturated.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NITHEBR. OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

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IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 2
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat