The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-11 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LOAV DON DURING THE TV EFT

(From the Registrar-Generat's _Report.)

Twelve hundred deaths were registered in London in the
week ending Satcr.lay, Ang. 7. In the len years 1848-57
the average number of deaths in corresponding weeks %vas
1,172; but as the deaths now returned occurred in a popu-
lation which has annually increased, they can only be com-
pared with the average after the latter is raised in proportion
to the increase, a correction which will make it 1,"89. Tt is
necessary, however, to remark that the series of weeks fr, tn
which the average is drawn, cornprise.s two weel:Q, viz., one
in 1849, another in 18A, when cholera was epidemic and
caused excessive mortaltty ; and if the comparison is male
only with seasons not so distinguished, it will appear that
the mot tality of last week was not low, but rather exceeded
the average..
The "healthy rate" of mortality as it is derived from th..se
distric's of England where the mortality is lowest, though
trot so low as when sanitary principles are better understood
and applied it will become, would have produced 799 des' hs
in the week in a population equal to that which exists in
Loudon. The present return, therefore, shows an excess of
about 460, constituting what may be called the unnatural
part of the mortality.
It is satisihetory to observe that the deaths from diarrhoea,
which had risen from 127 to 168 in the last week of July,
declined again last week to 130. The corrected average for
ten corresponding weeks is 172; and in the first week of
August last year the number horn this complaint rose to
27)8. Fifteen deaths were reported in the previkats return
from cholera; the numbrr now returned is only 5, two of
which are those of adults, a brewer who died from "English
cholera" in Bermondsey, and a labourer iu Woolwich Ar-
senal, who died of cholera after a few hours' illness. Scar-
latina appears to be increasing; the deaths from it in the
last three weeks were 58, 78, and 86. Mr. Simpson, the
Registrar of 8,. Giles, North, regi.t,red 5 deaths from scar-
latina last week ; he states that it is much on the increase
in his sub-district, and mentions a house, 25, lligh-strt et,
where three fatal cases of tue disease have occurred within
seek.
Six nonagenarians died in the week; the tNO eldest were
a woman, aged 95 years, who died in the workhouse, Lam-
beth, and a widow, aged 99, who had lived in Charlotte-
street, Tottenham-cow t. road.
Last week the births of 795 boys and 753 girls, in all 1,553
children, were registered in London. In the ten con e-
sponding weeks of the years 1848-57 the average numb l•
was 1,585.
ANALYSIS OF METROPOLITAN WATERS.
The waters supplied by the metropolitan companies have
been examined during the month of July by Dr. Robert
Dundas! Thomson, F.R.S., of St. Thomas's Hospit
Fur the sake of comparison the composition of same oth,or
waters supplied to provincial towns is added. The water
of Loch Katrine is iu process of being Mt-Mooed to the city
of Glasgow ; the water from the river Dee supplies the it-
habitants of Aberdeen; the source of the water employed at
Stirling is the adjoining hills, the supply being brought in
by the town on the security of the water rates. The ha-
purity is indicated in degrees or grains per gallon.

FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday morning,
Robinson William Bower, the youngest son of Mr. Samuel
Bower, manufac:urer„ of "The Hey," near Marsden, was
accidentally shot by his own gun. About half-past Moe
o'clock in the morning) the deceased, accempanied by a ser-
vant named Wank Bmnforth, went upon some hilly pasture
. ground, the properly of his father, and situate behind Mr.
Bower's residence, fir the purpose of shooting sparrows.
The man had been sent forward to start the birds, and toe
deceased, with his loaded gun, prepated to cross a fence.
To accomplish this he passed his gun over the fence, hold-
ing it by the muzzle, the butt end resting upon the grotpid.
lie leaned forward with his breast upon tie gun barrel, and
was in the act of springing over, when, owing to some cir-
cumstance, the gun went off, and the entire charge was
lodged in the youth's breast. Ile placed his hand upon the
place, exclaimed " Oh, Frank !" took three or four paees
forward, then tell upon his face, aud all was bver. The de-
ceased was 18 years of age, and a fine vigorous youth.—
Huddersfield Chronicle.

SAD ACCIDENT.--A mother and her son, ag, d
four years, came to Liverpool from Manchester-by an eat ler
train en Saturday morning; the father followed at niee
o'clock, to learn on his arrival that his son had been killed,
having been run over in the street by a cart, through the
carelessness of the driver. The deceased was John Henry
Riddell, son of Mr. William Riddell, bookkeeper, of 2, As-.
worth-terrace, Regent-read, Salford. On arriving at Liver-
pool, Mt,. Riddell and Mr. Samuel Occlestone, ovolooker
at Mr. Harter's factory, lrwell-street, Salford, who accom-
panied her, partook of breakfast at Elston's spirit vaults, in
Roe-street. The account for breakfast was being bettl d
when alarm was given that a cl.ild had been run over in the
street. Mrs. Riddell, missing her little boy, exclaimed, "Go
and see if it is our Johnny ;" and her misgiving was in-
stantly realised. The little fellow had wandered out of toe
door upon the flags, at the edge of which he stumbled a: d
fell, at the corner of Roe-street and Murray-street. Just it
that moment there came along Murray-stye, t a onr-'to 0
cart, driven rapidly and carelessly, and close to the COO,-
stone, by William Jones, who sat in front of the cart, with
the reins in his hands, and unconsciously drove over the
child, breaking some of his limbs and jamming his head be-
tween the rim of the wheel and the curbstone. The child
died almost immediately from the injuries received and
general shock to the nervous system. The inquest was le Id
in the afternoon. The jury coupled with their verdict a
presentment of severe censure upon the driver for his reck-
lessness.—Liverpool Mercury.
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