The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-08 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the Registrar-General's Return, Sept. 6.)
The total number of deaths in London in the
week that ended on Saturday (Sept. 4), was 1,039.
In the ten years, 1848-57, the average number of
deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week
was 1,314; but as the deaths of last week occurred
in an increased population, the average, to admit
of comparison, must be raised proportionally to
that increase, in which case it will become 1,478.
Hence it appears that last week was so favourable
to the health of the inhabitants of London that 439
persons survived who would have died if the ave-
rage rate of mortality had prevailed. The number
of children born last week exceeded that of persons
of all ages who died by 492. Diarrhoea proved fatal
last week in 120 cases ; in the week preceding the
number was 146. Scarlatina carried off 110 per-
sons, being more than double the weekly average
of the season ; whooping-cough, 42 ; measles, 20;
smallpox, 5 ; and cholera was fatal to 8 persons.
Diseases of the respiratory organs were the cause
of 80 deaths; of these 33 were attributed to pneu-
monia, and 37 to bronchitis. The deaths referred
(or consumption) which is placed in the
tubercular P
ht
hsis
class of diseases, were 119. A boy, aged
9, and a man, aged 61, died of tetanus, the former
of these cases was the result of an accidental wound
of the knee. A labourer, aged 41, died in St.
Giles's Workhouse from sunstroke, and the wife of
a weaver " from exhaustion from want of food ;"
she was 63 years of age. Four nonagenarians died
last week ; the oldest was a widow, who had at-
tained the age of 98 years.
Last week the birth of 806 boys and 725 girls, in
all 1,531 children were registered in London. In
the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1848-57
the average number, corrected for increase of popu-
lation, was 1,669.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.627 in.
The highest barometrical reading occurred on Thurs-
day at 9 a.m., when it was 29.75 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 59.4 deg., which is
0.5 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) On Fri-
day the excess of mean temperature above the ave-
rage was 6.7 deg., the temperature having been
below the average on four of the preceding days
of the week. The highest temperature in the week
was 74.0 deg. on Friday ; the lowest was 43.3 dm..
on Sunday. The mean daily range was 19.5 dz.g;
On Saturday the range was only 7.1 deg. The
mean dew-point temperature was 51.0 deg., and tha
difference between this and the mean air tempera-
ture was 8.4 deg. The mean temperature of the
water of the Thames during the last four days of
the week was 61.3 deg.

EASTERN MAILS.—The Indus, with the heavy
portion of the lot China and Calcutta mail, left Malta ou.
the 28th ult. ; and the Ripon, with the heavy portion
of the
Bombay mail ; and the Teviot, with the heavy portion of
the Australian mail, left Malta on the 30th ult. The Indus,
therefore, may be expected to arrive at Southamptonitoai
clay ; the Teviot to-morrow, ba:ause she does not
.cal .
Gibraltar; and the Ripon on Thursday. The
i‘Vfaictolansat,
with the outward Australian mail of thie6tli;
of
.1.
_y.y
ul Sh:
had not arrived at Melbourne on 9.•
Madras, with the outward Bombay
was, therefore, at least 11 days bh(ethlianic4ahrerseinteimoei.nai'll'heof
" with outward Calcutta and
the 2d nit., had arrived
steam packet the
.China mail of
out in due course atA den. The.l
.om Aden, by the
tdh ee
hi2lusat
mulat
i. l
oTf htheeß4thentipuicky:
the 4th August, and
the NildlleciChl Sea,• a
not due
faart Adcnfi on the 25th
nit., was met i
with the outward
Australian steameraElcmuuttaman
reached Point de Gallo two days after her time. The Noma,
started with the China portion of the Bentinek's mail orb,
the 7th of July. •
The manner of affixing the proclamation made
by the Count de Paris on the occasion of his coming of age
has excited the greatest admiration. These aliehes were
printed on one side with the announcement of the sale of
the chateau and estate of the Marquis de —,• in Perigord.
The offiche was then paSted only in the thin band of margin,
down the side, leaving the paper and displaying the undeg'-•
math upon which was printed the manifesto of the Cvunt
do Paris, and the long extract from his father's will, whicl
ir.t4 created so nu?.ll mtereit.—Court Jourpal.