The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-06 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(Front the Registrar-General's Report.)
In the week that ended on Saturday March 2 the
births registered in London and 12 other large toWes
of the United Kingdom were 4,615 ; the deaths re-
gistered 2,943. The annual rate of mortality was 25
per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,126 boys and 1,089
in all 2,215 children, were registered in the wee';
In the corresponding weeks of 10 years 1857-66
average number, corrected for increase of pop
ul3

tion, is '2,184.
The deaths registered in London during d
o• the Week
were 1,295. It was the 9th week of the year; nth
the average number of deaths for the week is, wiht
a correction for increase of population, 1,537. rr's°
deaths
in the present return are less by 242 than the
estimated number.
The low rate of mortality in the metropolis is attri-
butable to the high temperature and genial w
which prevailed until Feb. 27, and checked the Pr°-
gressof bronchial affections. The deaths from zYlll°,
tic diseases are 282, and arc 29 below hrreteu
average. 36 deaths occurred from typhus ; 5 in the
west, 11 in the north, 8 in the central, 5 in the east?
and 7 in the south districts. Six deaths grief Lon-
don Fever Hospital are referred to the di frota
which the patients had been brought. Whooping-
cough proved fatal to 78 children ; 11 of who'll
Bather
died in Marylebone, 6 in St. Pancras, 5 in isling-
ton, sin St. Giles, sin Bethnal-green, and 4
in Mile-end Old-town. Forty-nine deaths from
small-pox, 14 from measles, and 23 from scarlatina
sons of a clicker residing at 1, Wolverley
were registered duringithe week. Four children,
Bethnal-green, died; three from whooping-coh
and small-pox, and one from whooping-cough and
pneumonia. The registrar remarks that " the drain-
age is reported to be in a bad state."
The following deaths of three persons killed by
vehicles in the streets were registered :—A cab Po-
prietor, aged 70, fell from a cart ; died Feb. 25 ill
-street,
St. Mary's Hospital. A cab driver, aged 42, thrown
from a cab ; died Feb. 8 in IVestminster Hospit in
al'
A.messenger, aged 65, run over ; died Feb. 10
King's lege .
The annual rate ofospital mortality last week was 22 Per
1,000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 31 in pub-
lin, 22 in Bristol, 25 in Birmingham 30 in Liverf:
pool, 29 in Manchester, 23 in Salford, 25 in
She
°e3;
field, 31 in Leeds, 18 in Hull 37 in Newcastle-0
,
Tyne, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in -Vienna 187
31 per 1,000 during the week ending 23d ult.,whell_
the mean temperature was 4.3 deg. Fahrenheit lovvetro
than in the same week in London, where the r 3
e 313
was 24.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the n,.0•
height of the barometer in the week was 30.1;:io.
The barometrical reading increased from 29''
on Tuesday to 30.61 on Saturday. The mean theieh
perature of the air in the week was 39.0 deg.,l7 is
is 6.1 deg. below the average of the same Nve,35,110
50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher)-i
highest day temperature was 52.3 deg. on Si eti.,rYi_
The lowest night temperature was 28.2 deg- en
t
day. The entire range of temperature in the. week
b gl,ise.s;
the
was, therefore, 24.1 deg. The mean of
temperature of the water of the Thames viatTer_
deg., that of the lowest was 441 deg. Theau
ence between the mean dewpoint teinperattircei
01.0
air temperature was 61 deg. The Incali tion
of humidity of the air was 78, complete saturaount
being represented by 100. Rain fell to the
awf
the
of 0.04 in. on Tuesday. The general direction o
wind was W.S. W. and N.E. At Wakefield the inieci_
mum temperatures on the last five days of the wai;
were 21.5 deg., 20.5 deg., 21.2 deg., 19-5 deg., the
18.5 deg. According to a return furnished by
the
engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
the
average daily quantity of sewage pumped into
_s_.
River Thames at the southern outfall works, Cru,
,0 cubic
ness, was 46,215,285 gallons, or 209,98
OW.
metres, eqUiVPaClIt to about as maul tow by