The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THIS

WERE.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The deaths in London declined to 937 in the week
that ended August 25th ; they rose to 1,018 in the
week that ended last Saturday. If 1,287 deaths
from cholera, that occurred in the 35th week of
1854, are withdrawn from the returns to be com-
pared, it will be found that the average number of
deaths, in the weeks corresponding with last week,
of the years 1850-9 was 1,045; and this average,
corrected for increase of population, becomes 1,149.
Hence it appears that the public health is now
comparatively good; for the deaths were fewer by
141 than they would have been under the average
rate of mortality as calculated for the end of
August.

The births last week exceeded the deaths in the
same time by 831.
Small-pox continues to exhibit a low mortality;
last week the deaths from it were 7, which is the ave-
rage number for the last six weeks. Diarrhoea was
fatal in 91 cases ; the average of corresponding
weeks in the last ten years, corrected for increase of
population, is 173. Of the 91 all except 7 occurred
to children. There were also 5 deaths from cholera
or choleraic diarrhoea, all with one exception
amongst infants. •A gardener, aged 61 years, died
at 17, Lavender-road, Battersea, of " cholera (6
days), consecutive fever (5 days)." The deaths
from measles were 43, of which 3 occurred in St.
Mary, Paddington, 3 in Belgrave sub-district, 3 in
the Hackney-road sub district, 3 in St. Mary (St.
George-in-the-East), and 3in Bow. Scarlatina
was fatal in 37 cases, 6 of which were in Poplar.
A boy, aged 8 months, died of acute eczema ;
a young woman of chlorosis. A laundress died in
the Paddington Workhouse of "fever and diarrhoea
following cold and destitution." A widow died at
the age of 94 years. A child was scalded by
overturning a can of hot water. Three infants
were suffocated in bed. A labourer, aged 42 years,
was suffocated in the cabin of a barge in the Lon -
don Docks. A boy died at the age of 15 weeks of
" idiocy from birth ; atrophy." He was one of ten
children born of health) parents in the country; six
of these died of brain disease in infancy; three (of
whom two survive) grew up idiots ; one is quite
healthy.
Last week the births of 944 boys and 905 girls, in
all 1,849 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59
the average number was 1,586.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.537 in.
The readings fell from 29.75 in. on Monday, to
29.19 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 58.0 deg., which is 1.3 deg.
below the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The thermometer in
the shade rose to 70 deg. on Sunday, and fell to
46.7 deg. Saturday. The range of temperature in
the week was therefore 23.3 deg. The mean daily
range was 17.4 deg. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 5 9 deg., showing the amount of dryness in
the air. The mean degree of humidity was 82,
complete saturation being represented by. 100.
The wind blew from the south-west. Rain fell to
the amount of 0.81 in., most of it on Monday and
Tuesday. It fell on every day. except Frday ;
heavily for 35 minutes on the evening of Saturday,
when there was considerable electrical disturbancs.
The mean temperature of the water of the Thames
was 60.4 deg.

MR. EDWIN JAMES.—The trip of Mr. E. James
to Southern Italy continues to occupy the attention of some
foreign journals, which, in spite of the contradictions that
have reached them from your side of the Channel, persist
in believing that he has gone on a mission from the British
Government to Garibaldi. I would call it a secret mission'
but somebody or other has taken care it should. not be that.
The Hord entertains no doubt on the subject, because cer-
tains as
Paris and Turin papers have given precise detail
to what the member for Marylebono is to say to the Dicta-
ssteesdsilo in the fogs of
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instructions
tor, what hopes he is to hold oat, and what advice and as-
surance he is to give. Wherever Mr. James goes a con-
viction seems to speed that he is no ordinary traveller, gone
in quest of a little sunshine aifateartrua
Westminster, but an emissary
that may influence the destinies of Italy. He had had scarcely
passed through Paris when the announcement of his em-
bassyin a favoured
appears, with circumstantial details,
weekly periodical, and the other Paris papers have hardly
done copying and commenting
upon this when the pest
from Piedmont brings us Turin j ournals bigwith similar
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has
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Imagine that an odour of
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person of the honourable and
learned gentleman, who
diplomacy
Garibaldi all he has to say, probably by this time told