The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

BIRTHS.

1 157,374 births were registered in the quarter ending
Match 31, 1851. This is a greater number of births than
was ever registered in any previous quarter; and the in-
crease is distributed over all the divisions of the country,
although it was greatest in Cheshire, Lancashire, and
Yorkshire. In a few counties the births exhibit no in-
crease, in the majority the increase is considerable.
INCREASE Or POPULATION.
As 157,374 births and 105
,456 deaths were regestered
in the quarter ending March 31st, 1851. an excess is left
of 51,928 living. It is the natural increase of the popu-
lation in three months. And as all the deaths are regis-
tered while all the births are not registered, the difference
is lass than the actual increase. The variations in the
increase of population from fluctuations in the births
and deaths since 1847 have been considerable ; the excess
of births over deaths was 19,704 in the winter quarter
ending March, 1848, and 51,928 in the corresponding
quarter of 18.51.
The emigration in the quarter ending March 31st,
1851, from the ports of the United Kingdom at which
there are Government emigration etßeers, was 56,072.
The emigrations from English ports amounted to
48,929 namely. 1,515 from Plymouth, 4,505 from
London, and 42,912 from Liverpool. 2,339 emigrants
sailed from Glasgow and Greenock: 4,804 from Irish,
ports. It is well known that many Irish emigrants sail
from Liverpool.
STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
105,446 deaths were registered in the quarter ending
March 31. This.number is less by nearly 15 000 than
was registered in the corresponding quarters of 1847 and
1848; and more by 7,000 than was registered in the March
quarter of 1850. Taking the increase of population into
account, the mortality was slightly below the average. It
was et the rate of 2'365 per cent. per annum: whereas the
average rate of the quarter is 2'457 per cent. The highest
rate of mortality experienced in any winter quarter since
1839 was 2 830 in the cold winter quarter of 1847; . the
lowest was 2.144 in the mild winter quarter of 1846.
A previous table shows that the average annual
rate of mortality in winter is 2i- per cent. nearly
(2.457); the mortality being above this range i„
town, and below it in country districts. The
mortality in the- March quarter was somewhat
lower than the average in the 117 districts, .including
the chief towns; and considerably beleive the average in
the 506 remaining country districts. The mortality of the
towns was a fiftieth part, and of tbe country districts a
twelfth part less than the average., . The country dis-
tricts are therefore enjoying more than their usual im-
munity, while the mortality iu the town districts is scarcely
reduced at all ; yet it was in the town districts that
cholera' was must fatal," and according to a common
theory cut off the weakly lives in 1849. The returns
show that little impression has yet been made on the
mortality of towns, which have practically been left un-
improved. The drains, sewers, slaughter-houses, and
churchyards are much the same as the were, and their
effects therefore are the same.
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