The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-18 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The weather was last week unusually cold for
April, and the mortality of London was high,
though, as in the previous week, it was considerably
lower than it had been in the last three weeks of
March. The deaths in the week that ended last
Saturday were 1,407. In the ten years 1850-59
the average number of deaths in the weeks corre-
sponding with last week was 1,119, which, if cor-
rected for increase of population, becomes 1,231.
The deaths of last week, therefore, exceeded by 176
the number which the average rate of mortality in
the second week of April would have produced.
The mean temperature of the air in last week was
about 5 deg. lower than in either of the two pre-
ceding weeks.
The deaths referred to bronchitis in the week are
208, the corrected average being only 118 ; in the
corresponding week of 1851, when the mean tem-
perature of the air was remarkably low, and
nearly the same as that of last week, the deaths
from bronchitis were not more than 89. Pneumonia
was fatal in 116 cases, the corrected average being
90. Phthisis also continues fatal, for this disease
numbered 179 last week, while the estimated
number is 164. But the two zymotic diseases,
smallpox. and scarlatina, do not appear to gain
force, as the weekly mortality from them has lately
been less than it was in the first three months of
the year. Three deaths from smallpox occurred
in the week in the sub-district of Trinity, Newing-
ton. Five persons died from burns, one man
from his clothes taking fire, two others from the
burning of the houses in which they dwelt; two
persons were burnt by means not recorded. Ten
infants were suffocated in the bed clothes. Four
infants were murdered. A porter, aged 66 years,
died from want on the 27th of March, at 19, Phipp-
street, Shoreditch. Three persons died from in-
temperance, besides two from delirium tremens.
Last week the births of 932 boys and 934 girls,
in all 1,866 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1850.59 the average number was 1,684.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29-805 in.
The mean height on Wednesday and Saturday was
above 30 in. The lowest reading of the barometer
in the week was 29.38 in. on Sunday ; the highest
30.08 in. on Saturday. 'The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 40.7 deg., which is 4'S deg.
below the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tem-
perature was below the average on every day ex-
cept Sunday ; and the extent of depression was
nearly 8 deg. on Wednesday and Saturday. The
thermometer in the shade rose to 57.2 deg. on Sun-
day, the highest point in the week, and fell to 28.2
deg. on Wednesday, the lowest point, or 3.8 deg.
below the freezing point of water. The range of
temperature in the week was, therefore, 29 deg.
The mean daily range was 15.8 deg. The
difference between the mean dew -point tem-
perature and air temperature was 5.3 deg., show-
ing the dryness of the air. The mean degree of
humidity was 82 ; the humidity on Friday and
Saturday was respectively 95 and 97, approach-
ing nearly to the point of complete saturation,
which is represented by 100. The mean
temperature of the water of the Thames was 46.4
deg. The direction of the wind was variable ; on
Sunday it was south-west, on the next three days
it was west and north-west, and again south-
west and south, and at the end of the week
north-east. Rain fell to the amount of o'2l in.,
half of which fell on Saturday. On Monday
showers of hail and rain were frequent, and in
the evening there was thunder and lightning ;
and on Tuesday there were showers of snow,
hail, and rain.

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