The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-13 00:00:00

HEA LTII OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

( From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
One thousand one hundred and fifty-one deaths were
registered in London during the week that ended on
Saturday, 9th February. The number is below the
average, but it is 202 above the number in the previous
week. Nineteen persons, namely, 9 childreo and 10
adults of 20 to 60 years of age, died of small-pox, 31
died of scarlatina, 42 of hopping-cough, and 65 of
typhus, which is now the reigning epidemic. Of 137
persons who died of consumption 77 were of the age
20-40, and 36 were of the age 40-60.
40 persons died of apoplexy, 28 of paralysis, during
the week, or 68 in the aggregate ; whereas the deaths
from these diseases in the week preceding were 21 from
apoplexy, and 13 from paralysis. These and other
sudden deaths have been frequent, and account for a
part of the increase in the mortality. Bronchitis,
r.eumonia, and asthma were fatal in 236 cases, many
of them probably terminations or modifications of in-
fluenza.

23 deaths from violent causes aro recorded : 12 by
burns and scalds, 2 by hanging, &L, 1 by suffocation,
2 by drowning, 3 by fractures, 1 by wounds, and 2 by
other cluseg.

570 males and 581 females died in the week ; 480
were children and young persons under 20 years of
age ; 189 were of the age 20-40 ; '206 were 40-60 ;
224 were 60-80 ; and 42 were of the age of 80 and
upwards.
The oldest person who died in the week was of the
age of 93 years.
The births of 895 boys and 893 girls, in all 1788
children, were registered in London. In the ton cor-
responding weeks of the years 1840-55 the average
number ras 1,596.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week ending February
the 9th was 29.840 in. The reading of the barometer
increaqed from 29'86 in. at the beginning of the week
to 29.95 in. by 10 h. a.m. on the 3d ; decreased to
29'85 in. by 3 h. p.m. on the 4th ; increased to 30.06
in. by 3 h. p.m. on the sth ; decreased to 29'54 in. by
noon on the 7th ; increased to 29.90 in. by noon on the
Bth ; decreased slightly by 3 h. p.m., and increased to
29'93 in. by 9 h, p.m. on the same day ; then decreased
to 29 80 in. by the end of the week. On Sunday the
sky was free from cloud throughout the day, on the
following days of the week the sky for the most part
was overcast. The wind blew briskly from the south-
west, and rain fell on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday :
on Wednesday there was a now moon, accompanied
with a hard wind and driving misty rain. The mean
temperature of the air was 44.0 deg., which is 5 9 deg.
above the average of the same week in 38 years. The
entire range of temperature during the week was 29.1
deg., the highest was 58'0 deg. on Saturday, and the
lowest 28.9 deg. on Monday. The air on an average
was warmer by 10'5 deg. than the preceding week.
The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was
39'8 deg.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS,
NITMEER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 9.

Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat

Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses 'l4s
➢iseases of the Heart and Biood-vessels 4B
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of

Respiration
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
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of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 2
Premature Birth and Debility 35
Atrophy 2B
Old Age . .
Sudden 5
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance - 3O
Causes not specified

1,151
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

Population Deaths in corre- Death•
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1855. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts........ 485,522
South Districts ...... 616,635

Totals .......•. 2,362,236
Males
Females.

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1,546 1,151
570
581

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males 895
Females 893

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