The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-16 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(Prom the Report of th 4 Registrar-denerol.)
Eleven hundred deaths were registered in Louden in
We week that ended on Ssterday. In the second week
of the last ten years (which corresponds to lest week)
the average number was 1,239. If for comparison with
the deaths in the present increased population this aver-
age is raised by a tenth part, it becomes 1,363. The
present sit.t... of tha public bo.lth must be regarded,
therefore, as cornparatively good ; and it last week bo
compared with the same week in 1854 and 1855, when
the deaths rose to nearly 1,500, the result becomes still
more satisfactory.
The return i,.cludes 542 deaths of males and 558 of
females, and gives a total number, which, as compared
with the number of births, is less by 463. Of the 1,100
persons who died, 224, or about a fifth part, perished
before they had completed the first year of their exist-
ence ; and 47 were old men and women, on whose heads
80 eint.-rs or more had gathered.
Fatal cases produced by diseases of the respiratory
organs have decreased in the last fortnight ; the num-
bers in the last three returns having been 348, 253, and
238. Bronchitis, the most fatal of the diseases which
enn,titute this class, numbered in the same periods 204,
141, and 126. The return for pneumonia (or inflammation
in the lung.) is not heavy for this season. Phthisis was
fatal to 118 persons, the corrected average being 121.
Twenty-one deaths occurred from small-pox, 4 of which
took place in Woolwich. Mr. Rixort, who registered
thrre from that disease in the Royal Ordnance Hospital,
mentions that it has been extremely prevalent there, but
is now abating ; that there wrre upwards of 30 cases
at one time in that establishment, and some of the
worst description. Two deaths from typhu4, one from
" fever," and one from erysipelas occurred on the sth
and Bth January in St. Luke's workhouse. ' Measles
carried off 3 very young children in the Westminster
workhouse.

Last week the births of 793 boys awl 765 girls, in all
1,563 children, were registered in London, In thei ten
eqrruspondinz weeks of the years 1846.55 the average
number was 1,486.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.357 in. The baro-
meter rose from 28 85 in. on Monday to 30.40 in. at the
end of the week. The mean temperature of the week
WAS 36.4 deg., which is 1.3 deg. above the average of
the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr. Glai-
'her). The air was much colder than in the two pre-
vious weeks. The mean temperature was below the
average on the last four days.. The highest occurred on
Sunday and Monday, and was 47 deg.; the highest on
Friday was only 32.8 deg., while the lowest in the week
occurred on that day, and was 27.9 deg. The entire
range of the week was, therefore, 19,.1 deg. The mean
dew-point temperature was 34.4 deg., and the difference
between this and the mean air temperature was 2 deg.
The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was
41.9 deg. The temperature of the river varied from
44.1 deg. to 38.2 deg. The wind, which blew from the
south or east at the beginning of the week, changed to
north-east on Tuesday, awl continued almost constantly
in that direction. The amount of rain was 0.89 inches,
and of this amount 0.80 inches fell on Wednelday. Snow
fell on the morning of that day.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ILL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 12.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 44
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 23S
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
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. 2
Malformations 4
Premature Birth and Debility 33
Atrophy 3O
Old Age
.
Sudden 4
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 44
Causes not specified

1,100
DEATHS BROM ALL CAUSES

Population Deaths in corre- Deatlg
Enumerated. sponding week in th.
11.
West Districts
... 207
190
North Districts 490,396 . 298
Central Districts 893,256 .. 255
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

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Totals
Males 542
Females 558
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males 798
Females

Total 1,563

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RATLWAY.—TrafiIe re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 12, 1856 £17,74 17 1
Corresponding week last year 17,193 19 1

Increase in .: 855
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 12,
1856...........
£9 639 16 8
Corresponding weei 'lasi year
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 20,1 9,980 4 9
88 2 1
Total of the half-year to this dat4,1855 20,151 711