The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON _DF.RING THE WEER:

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The weekly return issued by authority of the
Registrar-General states that the mortality now
exhibits that increase which usually attends the
closing months of the year. From 1,026 in the last
week of October, the deaths in London have risen
to 1,183, the number in the week that ended last
Saturday. The average number of deaths, as ob-
tained from corresponding weeks of ten previous
years (1850-9), and for the purpose of comparison,
corrected for increase of population, is 1,264.
Hence it appears that the deaths in the present
return are less by 81 than they would have been if
the average rate of mortality for this period of the
year had prevailed.
The births of last week exceeded the deaths in
the same by 677. '
While zymotic diseases in the aggregate show a
decrease for last week, there is an increase gene-
rally under other heads, but particularly under
pulmonary diseases (chiefly bronchitis and pneu-
monia), the deaths from which rose from 207 to 270.
In addition to these numbers phthisis rose from 109
to 156. There were only 3 fatal cases of small-pox,
43 of measles, 38 of scarlatina, 12 of diphtheria, 46
of whooping-cough, and 24 of typhus. Six deaths,
5 of which were those of infants, were from syphili-
tic disease. Five children died from measlesin the
sub district of Poplar. A cooper aged 44 years died
in consequence of his clothes taking fire from ruin
spurting into a candle when he was tapping a cask.
A girl aged 2 years was fatallyscalded by falling back-
wards into a pot. A child died from poppy-syrup
administered medically by its mother, and a young
man from an overdose of laudanum. Eight nono-
genarians, all women, died in the week, the eldest
of whom was a spinster who had attained the age
of 96 years.
Last week the births of 997 boys and 863 girls,
in all 1,860 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-
59 the average number was 1,589.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.416
in. The barometer fell from 2982 in. on Sunday
to 29.10 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 41.7 deg., which is 1.6
deg. below the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The ther-
mometer in the shade fell to 33 deg. on Monday,
and rose to 52'9 deg. on Thursday, being the
lowest and highest points respectively in the week.
The extreme range of temperature was therefore
19.9 deg. The mean daily range was 11.5 deg. On
Sunday the range was only 5.6 deg. The difference
between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was only 1.7 deg. The mean degree
of humidity in the air was 94, complete saturation
being represented by 100, which point the hu-
midity almost attained on Monday and Saturday.
The wind blew from the south-east and east in the
early part of the week ; on Wednesday and two
subsequent days from the south-west. Rain fell to
the amount of 0.92 in., about two-thirds of which
fell on Saturday, which day was wet and gloomy.
throughout. The mean temperature of the water of
the Thames was 46.5 deg.