The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR THE PREVENTION OF

THIRTY-FIFTH EDITION.

DISEASE.
Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
oN PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. _ _

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HEALTII OF LONDON DURING HIS WEEK.
(From the Weekly Return of the Registrar. General.)
In the week ending lat Saturday 1,023 deaths
were registered in the distticts of the metropolis. In
the corresponding weeks of the ten years (1841-50),
the average was 1,102 ; conyared with which the
present return exhibits a favourable result. And if
it could be safely assumed, notwithstanding . the
effects of various epidemics, that the population has
increased yearly at the rate of 155 per cent. (the
annual rate of increase observed in Landon between
the two censuses of 1831 and 1841) and the above
average were proportionally augmented, the com-
parison would show the public health of the week in
a still more satisfactory point of view. But it will he
found on examination that, in five out of the ten cor-
responding weeks, the returns differ little from that
of last week, or fall much below it, whilst an exces-
sive mortality presses on other parts of the series, the
deaths rising to 1,450, at one period, when influenza
was on the wane, at another, when cholera had broken
out in Drouet'a institution, and thus swelling the ac-
count above what an average state of health would
produce.
The last ,week. exhibits a- marked-improtethent on
the first week of the year, chiefly in the decline of
fever and the epidemics to which children are subject,
but also in the diminished effects of diseases of the
respiratory organs. In the previous week the deaths
from epidemics in the aggregate were 239, in the last
they were 173 ; and to take particular maladies in
this class, there were in the former week, from small-
pox, measles, scarlatina, and boopingcough, 28, 29, 14,
and 58, respectively ; in the last week there were 16,
21, 16, 43 • scarlatina alone, which, however, is now
leis fatal than usual, not showing a decrease. Typhus
has declined in the two weeks from 48 to 35 ; erysi-
pelas from 14 to 2. Amongst complaints which as-
sume an epidemic character influenza alone shows
any tendency to increase; it has carried off nine
persons in the week, though it usually reaches less
than half that number. In connexion with three
cases of typhus, which proved fatal in three different
parts of the metropolis, the registrars call at-
tention in their notes to the circumstances
in which these events occurred—here " a filthy
and overcrowded court," which had been repeatedly
complained of as the nursery of disease ; at another
place, " miserable huts," which had been constructed
without regard to comfort or decency; and in the
third case, a small back room is described, where six
persons had been sleeping, and into which air could
not penetrate either by means of the chimney or other
channel.

Fatal cases arising from affections of the respiratory
organs (exclusive of hoopingcough and phthisis) are
diminished from 321 in the former week, to 275 in
the last; and amongst these, laryngitis from 11 to 4,
bronchitis from 152 to 136, pneumonia from 101 to
96, and asthma from 37 to 27. In the same period
phthisis exhibits a decrease from 147 to 123.
On the 7th of January, in St. Giles'-in-the-Fields,
at the Union Workhouse, a woman, who had been a
servant, died, as stated in the medical certificate, from
"old age and decay," after having reached the extra-
ordinary age of 105 years. Mr. Faulkner, the Regis-
trar, adds, that this woman retained full possessionof all her faculties till within a fortnight of her death."
It is not stated, as is desirable in such cases, whether
so singular a fact rests on the authority of a parish
register or other sufficient evidence.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1560.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*173
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 41
Tubercular Diseases 169
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and ... 119
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 44
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... • ••• ... •• • ••• 275
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Orv,ans
of Digestion... ... ... .. •• • ... 55
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &a. 1
Malformations••• ... ... ... ... ... 4
Premature Birth ... •• ..• ••• 30
Atrophy ... ... ... ... ... 13

Old Age ... ... ... ... ... ... 43
Sudden ... ••• ... ... ... ... ... 9

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 17
Causes not specified :2

DEATIIS FROII ALL CAUSES ... ..• 1,0 23
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1841. of 1849. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 .. 157 ... 166
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 181 ... 195
Central Districts 374.199 ... 185 ... 170
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 249 ... 223
South Districts.. 503,346 ... 293 ... 269

..... 1,948,369 ... 1,065 ... 1,023
Males ... 492
Females ... 531

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males ••• „.. ... 792
Females ... ••• ... ••• 788

Total ... ...1,580
*ln this number are included 16 by Scarlatkaa,.3s
by Typhus Fever, and 15 by Diarrhoea.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of
Traffic for the week ending Jan. 12:—
Passengers, parcels, &c. £21,301 19 0
- Muchandise
... 16,060 6 2
Cattle ... 702 7 0

Total ... £38,064 12 2
Corresponding week last year 37,611 0 6
Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the
traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North
Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and
Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor-
tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North
Staffordshire Company.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY—Return of traffic for the
week ending Jan. 12 £14,439 4 2
Corresponding week last year... 12,529 3 3

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—Traffic for week !riding Jan.l2 ....C13,396 10 11
Corresponding week in last year, (219
miles open) ...£10,532 15 3
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. _(Miles open, 112. )
Return of traffic for the week ending Jan. s:
Railway and canal ,_ £4,407 0 0
Corresponding week last year ... 3,022 0 0
Note. —The above is exclusive of the receipts available
under the agreement with the London and North-Western
Railway Company.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending Jan. 12:—