The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-13 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

Fresh up, to-day, the receipts of English wheat were
limited ; but we had a few of Monday's unsold samples
from Kent on offer. For good and fine parcels the demand
may be considered steady, at full prices; but other kinds
were dull, at Monday's currency.
Only 1,510 quarters of foreign wheat having come in,
holders were firm in their demands; but the amount of
business doing was limited, on former terms.
Floating cargoes of grain sold at full currencies.
Fine malting barley sold steadily, other kinds slowly, at
previous rates.
Malt was in fair inquiry, but not dearer.
For oats there was a steady demand, and prices were well
supported.
In beans and peas only a limited business was doing ;
but for flour there was au improved inquiry.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flour
English 1,220 I 1,070 I 1,040 150 I 830
Irish
Foreign .. 1,510 I 2,390 i 2,820 130s1u.
I 50 bls.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

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

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The deaths in London which had been in the
previous week 1,021, declined in the week ending.
Saturday, Oct. 9, to 993. In the ten years, 1848-
57, the average number of deaths in the weeks cor-
responding with last week was 1,073 ; but as the
deaths returned for last week occurred in an in-
creased population, the average, with a view to,
comparison, should be raised in proportion to the
increase, a correction which will make it 1,180.
When the deaths from cholera in epidemic seaems
are eliminated from the calculation, the comparison
will show that the deaths in the present return are
less by about 100 than would have resulted from
the average rate of mortality at the beginning of
October,
Sixty-three districts of England, in which the mor-
tality is least, have been selected, and their'average
rate of mortality in the last three months of the year
has been ascertained. If the deaths in London last
week had been according to " the healthy rate"
thus obtained, and which it is useful to adopt as
standard, they would have been 770 ; and the ac-
tual excess, or the number of unnatural deaths, is
223.

The mortality from scarlatina continues to
crease, the deaths from it having risen from 125
and 134 in the two previous weeks to 145 last week.
All of these 145 deaths, with the exception of 10,
occurred to children under 10 years of age. The
corrected average of this disease for 10 correspond-
ing weeks is 76. It reached a higher mortality
than the present return shows in the first week of
October, 1848, when the deaths from it rose to
180. Six deaths from scarlatina were registered
last week in the sub-district of St. Margaret, West-
minster, six in Islington East, and seven in Bow.
Of 41 violent deaths registered last week, 11
were cases of suicide. . .

Last week the births of 810 boys and 711 girls,
in all 1,521, were registered in London. In the 10
corresponding weeks of the years 1848-57 the
average number was 1,382.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean.
height of the barometer in the week was 29.685 in.
Thetarometric pressure varied from 29.20 to 29.92 in.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was
52.1 deg., which is 0.4 deg. below the average of
the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr
Glaisher). The thermometer in:the shade attained
its highest point on Sunday, when it was 69.6 deg.;
it fell to its lowest point on Saturday, when it was
35.4 deg. The range of the week was, therefore,
34.1 deg. The mean daily range was 19.7. The dif-
ference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 6.9'deg. The mean tem-
perature of the water of the Thames was 58.1 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 75.
The wind was nearly always south-west. The rain-
fall was 0.47 in.

In the 13 weeks ending Saturday, Oct. 2, 14,345
deaths were registered in London ; a number which
differs little from that of the same quarter of last
year, when it was 14,259. The mean temperature
of the quarter was 61 deg., which is lower by 2.3
deg. than that of the corresponding period of last
year, but higher than those of the preceding three
years. Of the 14,345 deaths, 5,032 attributed to
diseases of the zymotic character, constitute a high.
proportion, which is drawn to the extent of mor
than than four fifths from the youngest of the popu -
lation. Scarlatina has carried off many children,
and it has increased manifestly during the latter
half of the quarter. The deaths referred to it are

1,243, and more numerous than in any of the cor-
responding quarters of 1854-57, in which the num-
bers varied from 349 to g7B. Croup and hooping-
cough also exhibit an increase on those quarters.
Diarrhoea and summer cholera have been percep-
tibly less fatal than usual. In the summer quarter
of 1857 the deaths from the former of these com-
plaints were 2,343, from the latter 177 ' . while the
respective numbers of the quarter now terminated
are 1,391 and 90.

Of 500 deaths produced by means of violence, 412
were the results of accident or negligence, 21 were
by murder or manslaughter, and 67 by suicide.

TREATMENT OF THE APPARENTLY
DROWNED.

The following instructions for the resuscitation
of the apparently drowned have been extensively
circulated by the National Lifeboat Institution
throughout the United Kingdom and our Colonies.
They contain the latest discoveries on this im-

porfant subject, the Institution having taken great
pains to obtain the opinion of the medical profession
generally,both at home and on the Continent, on the
comparative merits of this and the antiquated plan
hitherto adopted in this country. Of the 300 medi-
cal men, some of them representing medical bodies,
who gave the society their opinion on the subject,
254 were entirely in favour of the new method, 10
on the side of the old plan, and 36 were undecisive.
It should be stated that the leading principles of
the instructions are those of the eminent physiolo-
gist, the late Dr. Marshall Hall.

_
1. Treat the patient instantly, on the spot, in
the open air, exposing the face and chest to the
breeze, except in severe weather.
To CLEAR THE THROAT—

2. Place the patient gently face downwards, with
one wrist under the forehead, in which position all
fluids will escape by the mouth, and the tongue
itself will fall forwards, leaving the entrance into
the windpipe free. Assist this operation by wiping
and cleansing the mouth.
If there be breathing—wait and watch ; if there
be no breathing, or if it fail, then—

TO-EXCITE RESPIRATION.
3. Turn the patient well and instantly on the
side, and-
4. Excite the nostrils with snuff, hartshorn,
volatile salts, or the throat with a feather, &c., and
dash cold water on the faee, previously rubbed
warm.

If there be no success, lose not a moment, but in-
stantly

TO IMITATE RESPIRATION--

5. Replace the patient on the face, raising and
supporting the chest well on a folded coat, or other
article of dress.
6. Turn the body very gently on the side and a
little beyond, and then briskly on the face, alter-
nately ; repeating these measures deliberately-,
efficiently, and perseveringly about fifteen times m
the minute, or every four seconds, occasionally
varying the side. By placing the patient on the
chest, it is compressed by the weight of the body,
and expiration takes place ; when turned on the
side, this pressure is removed, and inspiration
occurs.

7. On each occasion that the body is replaced on
the face, make uniform but efficient pressure with
brisk movement, on the back between and below
the shoulder-blades or bones on each side, removing
the pressure immediately before turning the body
on the side ; [the first measure increases the expi-
ration, the second commences inspiration].
* * The result is—Respiration or Natural
Breathing—and, if not too late—Life.
8. After respiration has been restored, promote
warmth of the body by the application of hot flan-
nels, bottles or bladders of hot water, heated bricks,
&c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between
the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.
To INDUCE CIRCULATION AND WARMTII--•
9. During the whole time do not cease to rub the
limbs upwards, with firm grasping pressure and
with energy, using handkerchiefs, flannels, &c.
(by this measure the blood is propelled along the
vems towards the heart).
10. Let the limbs be thus
su warmed. and dried, and.
then clothed, , the bystanders pp lying the requi-
site