The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-08 00:00:00

HEALTH OR

(Front the Report of ;the Registrar-General.)
The return of deaths for last week is a not unfavour-
able indication of the presex .t state of health in London.
The total number of deal hs registered was 1,071, of
which 540 were those of no ales, 531 those of females.
The deaths from diarrhcea relined from 72 in the pre-
vious week to 64 last week . A death from " choleraic
diarrhoea" occurred, after 2-4 hours' illness, and at the
age of 42 years, in Hanover -st. Scarlatina carried off 47
children, nearly the same nu, tuber as in the previous week.
Five children in a family we Ire attacked by this disease ;
of these one died at home, and three in the London
Fever Hospital ; and the fifth is now hopelessly ill in
the same hospital. A house is reported, No. 7, George's-
cottages, Brixton-hill, in sr. hich three cases of " fever"
have occurred within the last month ; the drainage is
stated to be "in very bad condition." In Wellesley-
street, Somers-town, also, tlatere is a house, No. 16, where
fever and other complaints are common, these being
caused, or much aggravate d by the offensive state of the
drains ; and in the adjoini house, No. 15, a woman
died from disease and want, combined. Several persons
died last week, whose ages were from 90 to 93 years.
Last week the births of 8 28 boys and 768 girls, in all
1,596 children, were registe red in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the + years 1846.55 the average
number was 1,417.
At the Royal Obsery a tory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.439 in. The
lowest reading was 26.68 in. on Sunday, the 2801 ult.
Tile mean temperature of t 11: ie week was 55.3 deg., which
is 2 deg. above the avera.i;e. On Saturday the mean
temperature was 591. deg.,, which is 7.1 deg. above the
average. The highest on that day was 65.8 deg., the
lowest 57 deg. The wind b. lew generally from the south-
west. Rain fell on almc4it every day, and the whole
amount was 0'54 in.

In the 13 weeks that ended 27th Sept., 14,066 per-
sons died in London, whic b. is about 1,000 more than in
the same quarter of 1855. Diseases of the zymotic cha-
racter were fatal in 4,093; cases, against 3,661 in the
summer quarter of last yeit..r ; of these 101 were due to
croup, 108 to small-pox, 3.12 to hooping-cough, 393 to
measles, 433 to scarlatina, 573 to typhus and common
fever, 1,610 to diarrhoea (Figainst 1,258 from this com-
plaint in the same period of last year),l3l to cholera,chiefly
cholera infantuni, the rest 1.-. o various other diseases of this
class. Very young children. were the sufferers from diar-
rhoea in a very large proportion of the cases. The deaths
from measles were moist numerous in the South
districts, those from scarlatina and typhus In the East.
Diarrhoea appears to have prevailed with considerable
uniformity over the great divisions of the metropolis,
though, if the sub-districts be compared with each other,
both with reference to pop ulation and deaths, results in
many instances widely dill erent will be obtained.
Phthisis (or consumption) carried off 1,794 persons,
the number in the corresponding quarter of 1855 having
been 1,645 ; bronchitis 562, pneumonia 581, being an
increase on the previous year of both diseases ; 86 women
died from diseases of the puerperal state ; 18 persons
died of carbuncle, the numbers in the summer quarters
of the last five years ranging only from 15 to 19. Ten
persons died from the intemperate use of liquor, besides
those who sustained fatal injuries when intoxicated, and
those who died from maladies generated by intemperance,
which, however, is not shown in the medical certificate ;
35 from delirium tremens ; six unfortunate persons from
want; 145 children from but of breastmilk. Poison
destroyed 22 lives; the nuniter in five quarters of 1852-
56 ranging from 13 to 23. Drowning is recorded in
133 cases, which is considerably more than the average.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 4.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases . lB7
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 4B
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
143
Respiration
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
48
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus,
13
.. 13
'
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy ..
Old Age
sudden ..
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified

30
35
30
15

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in cone- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1855. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522 210
Smith Districts

Totals
Males 540
Females 531

828
768