The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-05 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING MB

WEEK,

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)

The returns of the London districts are still of a very
favourable character. In the week that ended on Satur-
day the slumber of deaths registered was 969. In the
corresponding weeks of the last ten years (1846.55) the
average number was 1,009 ; and the same rate of morta-
lity would produce in the increased population of the
present time 1,100 deaths. The improved state of health
' now exiting has, therefore, reduced the number of last
week's return by 141 ; and similar results have been
obtained during the month now terminated. The mean
weekly temperature at the beginning of the month was
54.3 deg., and last week was 44.7 deg,- Till last week
it showed little variation, and alwayla _exceeded the
average temperature of each week by 2 deg.
Diseases of the zymotic class were fatal to 175 persons ;
affections of the respiratory organs, exclusive of phtbisis
and hopping cough, to 190. Under the average rate
of mortality from zymotic diseases in former years, the
deaths last week would have been 295. Scarlatina is at
present the most prominent in this class, and numbers
40 ; and St. John, Marylebene, where 5 children died
of it, returns a greater number of deaths from this
disease than any other snb-district. The registrar of
Hampstead records the death of a girl at 19, Boundary-
road, St. John's Wood, being the second from scarla-
tina maligna within a few days in the same house, and
be reports the statement of the medical attendant that
the complaint has prevailed particularly at this spot
(which ought to be healthy), and is in his opinion fos-
tered by the accumulation and decomposition of organic
matter iu that part of the Bridge-road which lies in the
parish of Hampstead, and where, it appears, there is a
want of -drainage. It is satisfactory to find that small-
pox bas letely.,been more rare, and last'week the deaths
from it wete only 4—viz , 2 in St. Join, Westminster,
and 2in the Small-pox Hospital, Llingtou. The deaths
from typhus declined to 32. Three fatal cases of car-
buncle are recorded, and two of mortification in children
from the application of blister. Two women and a man
died at the age of 91 years ; a man and a woman at 92 ;
and a woman in the Belgrave sub-district at the age of
95 years.

Last week the births of 777 boys and 792 girls, in all
1,569 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846.55 the average
number was 1,445.

At the Royal Observatory, Green wich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 30.165 io. The mean
daily reading was above 30 ie. thrmghout t'-4e week; on
Sunday it was 30.291 in., and on that day the instrument
rose to 30 33 in., the highest reading in the week. It de-
serves to be remarked that the mean daily reading of the
barometer has been 30 in. or mere siece Oct. 15. The
mean temperature was last week 44.7 deg., which is '2.4
below the average of the' same week in 33 years (as de-
termined 1-y Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tempera-
ture was below the average on the first four days, and
on Tuesday and Wednesday was 7 deg. and 9 deg.
hel sw it. On Friday it was 6 deg. above the average.
The highest temperature occurred on Tbursday and Fri.
day, and was 56.7 deg. ; the lowest was 31.4 deg., and
occurred on Wednesday ; the range of the tveek was
therefore 25.3 deg. The mean dew-point temperature
was 43.6 deg., and the difference b,,t.ween this and the
mean temperature of the air was 1.1 deg. The mean
temperature of the water of the Thames was 51.2 deg.
The air was unusually calm. The greatest pressure of
the wind was llb to the square foot, by Osler's anemo-
meter, on Thursday ; for other days no value is given
in the table. Rain fell on Friday to the amount of 0.34
in. On Wednesday the sky was obscured by a thick fog,
which prevailed the whole day, and became very dense
in the evening.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER. OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 1.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and 8100d-vessels 37
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
(childbirth, Diseases of le Uterus, &e. EI. 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 3
Premature Birth and Debility
.....
Atrophy ............... 32
O
ul
dAe gn e. 4,00.
49 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
8 Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES .....................

Population Deaths in come- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
.101. of 1855. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 4905,396 ...... 177
Central Districts 393,-;56 ...... 133
Last Districts 4855'22 ' .•• •• 201
*ouch Districts

Totals
Maic4...... ...............................
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BIPTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ...............
Females. ...... —••••

• 777
792

1,.561

Total ..-- •••••-••

Tui
DENIso;JuDGeMOEr ToPeRORTeEvS.T
Thomas. W ' e are
Henderson, requested
to state that then an
ivnicitadrveorfteMnetlsysinpgubiliVied, prebendary of St. Paul's, was most '
contrary to his express wishes
and instructions, aim! that it has been removed accord-
ingly from tip' list of yrotesters.— Essex Herald.
PERILOUS BALLOW% DESCENT.—The Tre,• na Gazette
gives an account of an ascent in an air•balloon, effected
a few days ago by IL Auboin Brunet' the aeronaut,
in the Arena of Verona; The balloon rose with tremen-
dous velocity to an altitude of 7,200 feet, when, owing
to the extreme rarefaction of the air and the bad state of
the valve, which it seems could not be opened to let eat
the e'as, the balloon burst int three distinct places. For-
tunately the shreds adhered to the outer net, so as to
form a kind of parachute, and the aeronaut found tom-
sel '.descending with appalling velocity, but yet with
sufficient regularity to enable hiL'l to climb up the net
and to arrange the filiping silk, ,so as to render the de-
scent lees precipitous. He then, being still at a height
of about 400 feet, got again out of the car, but this time
to cling to its bottom, in order to avoid the concussion
of
and break the violence of the landing by the e
y
his legs. He succeeded, and landed at Santa Lucia, near
Peron. For some minutes after he was completely deaf,
but this soon wore off, and he returned to. Verona that
Igitile evening, with only a few slight bruises.