The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-13 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

( From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The high range of temperature which has prevailed
during the last fortnight has bad a somewhat unfavour-
able effect on the public health. The number of deaths
registered in London in the week ending Saturday,
August 9, was 1,232, which exceeds that of the week
immediately preceding by 207, though it falls short by
96 deaths of the corresponding average of the last te❑
years.

- Summer cholera, infantile cholera, and choleraic diar.
rhcea proved fatal to 28 persons ; of this number 21
were children under the age of 10 years. Diarrhcea, pre-
vailed to some extent, and the deaths from this disease,
which were 125 in the previous week, advanced to 211.
of this number 187 were infants under 2 yearn of age ;
10 were 2 years old, and under 15 years; and 14 were
20 years of age and upwards.
In the zymotic class of diseases the other deaths were
7, ascribed to small-pox, 34 to measles, 35 to scarlatina,
36 to hooping-cough, and 54 to typhus. The aggregate
number of deaths in this class was 405 ; namely,
206 on the north side of the Thames, and 109 in the
districts on the south side of the river.
Of the 1,232 deaths, 611 were those of males and 621
of females. The deaths of children under the age of one
year amounted to 417, or about 34 per cent, of the total
mortality. 54 persons (an unusual number) of 80 years
of age and upwards died during the week ; of this num-
ber 4 females attained the advanced ages of 90, 91, 93,
and 91 years, and a carpenter who died at Mile-end New
Town, had reached his 96th birthday.
Last week the births of 782 boys atld 803 girls, in all
1,585 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 the average
number was 1,423.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.860 in. ;
during the first five days the sky was generally cloudless,
and the thermometer in the sun ranged from 105 deg. to
111 deg. Slit,,,tit showers fell on Friday evening; and on
Saturday rain fell heavily during the morning. Elec-
tricity was positive with strong and moderate tension.
The air for the greater part of the week was calm and
dry, with a mean temperature of 66.1 deg., which was
1.5 deg. below the week preceding, but 4.1 deg. above
the average of weeks for the last 38 years, and if com-
pared with the corresponding week of last year, the pre-
sent summer heat shows an excess of 5 deg. On Sunday,
Aug. 3, the mean temperature was no less than 10.3
above the average.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 9.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
93
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
74
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c, 6
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 9
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
1
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy ..............
Old Ago

39

'
Sudden ................................. 57
~ ........... 8
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 49
Causes not specified
7

DEATHS 1E03( ALL CAUSES 1,232
Population s Deaths in corre- Death
Enumerated, spending week in ti,
1851.
West Districts
...... 155
North Districts 490,39(3
...... 200
...... 242
Central Districts 393,256
...... 174
East Districts 485,522
..... 194
South Districts ...... 616,635
... .... 270

Totals ...... ... 2,362,236
Males ................ 1,232
....................... 621
F: .................................... 611
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

993

Males
Females

............... 782
............... 803

Total .
- .... 10685