The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-14 00:00:00

TBE PUBLIC HEALTH'.

(Front the Registrar-General's Return.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, August 10,

the births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,201 ; the
deaths registered, 2,715. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 23 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,053 boys and 1,034
girls, in all 2,087 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of the ten years
1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, is 1,958.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,274. It was the 32d week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,394. The
deaths in the present return are less by 120 than
the estimated number.
The deaths of 177 children and 12 adults from
diarrhoea were registered last week ; in the four
preceding weeks the numbers were 115, 170, 196,
217. The disease has not exhibited an epidemic
character, and if the ordinary safeguards of health
and life are not neglected, the mortality will pro-
bably not be greater than it generally is at this
season of the year. Young children are the greatest
sufferers when diarrhoea is prevalent, and the pro-
portion of the deaths of infants as compared with
those of adults is startling; many of these young
lives would be saved if proper attention were paid
to diet, and medical aid obtained at the earliest stage
of the malady. Last week 26 deaths from diarrhtea
occurred in the west, 46 in the north, 30 in the
central, 44 in the cast, and 43 in the south districts.

13 deaths from cholera or choleraic diarrhoea were
registered. In the corresponding week of last year
(1866) the deaths from diarrhoea were 264 and from
cholera 781.

Kensington ; St. Mary, Paddington.—At 7,
Waverley-terrace, on August 4, the son of a linen-
drapCr's assistant, aged 4 months, choleraic diarrhoea.
Kensington; Tow n.—At 15, Addison-road, North, on
August 4, the son of a clerk, aged 11 months, cho-
leraic diarrhoea. St. George, Hanover-square ; Bel-
grave.--At 133, Gatliffe-buildings, on August 4,
the son of a tailor, aged 4 years, cholera (30 hours).
Westminster ; St. John.—At 9, Earl-street, on
August 8, the son of a painter, aged 1 year, " cho-
leraic diarrhoea (six days)." St. James, Westmin-
ster; Berwick-street.—At 39, Berwick-street, on
August 10, a female, aged 6 months, "choleraic
diarrhoea (36 hours.)" Marylebone; All Souls.—
At 54, Bolsover-street, on August 3, the son of an
umbrella maker, aged 2 months, "cholera infantutn

(three days.)" iancras ; Regent's-park.—At 2,
Marley-court, Charles-street, on August 8, the son
of a commercial traveller, aged 8 months, "choleraic
diarrhoea (6 hours)." Pancras; Camden-town.—
At the workhouse, on August 1, a female servant,
aged 45 years, cholera. Shoreditch,
At 28, Wilson-street, on August 5, the daughter of
a fruiterer, aged 4 months, choleraic diarrhaa."
St. George-in-the-East (St. Paul).—At 10,
Anthony-street, on Angnst 5, the son of a cooper,
aged 2 months, cholerine (seven days.)" Bermond-
sey (St. James).—At 5, Perseverance-place, Blue
Anchor-road, on August 1, the son of a carpenter
aged seven months, choleraic diarrhoea (two days).'
Wandsworth (Battersea).—At 14, Patmore-street,
ou August 3, the son of a railway guard, aged 1
year, choleraic diarrhoet, rice water purging (three
weeks)." In same sub-district, at Grant-road, on
August 8, a daughter of a builder, aged 3 months,
choleraic diarrhoea, exhaustion. _ _

The deaths of three persons who were killed by
Lorses or carriages in the streets were registered.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 22 per

1,000 in London, 21 in Edinburgh, and 21 in Dub-
lin ; 14 in Bristol, 27 in Birmingham, 28 in
Liverpool, 28 in Manchester, 24 in Salford, 22 in
Sheffield, 29 in Leeds, 22 in Hall, 24 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 21 in Glasgow. The rate in
Vienna was 22 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 3.1 inst. when the mean temperature was 5.1
deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in
London, where the rate was 22. -
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.747 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 29.57 in.
on Thursday, Aug. 8, to 30.00 in. by the end of the
week. The mean temperature of the air in the
week was 601 deg., which is:2.deg. below the ave-
rage of the same week in 50 years (as determined
by Mr. Gl.tisher.) The highest day temperature
was 75.9 deg. on Saturday, Aug. 10. The lowest
night temperature was 49.1 deg., on Wednesday,
Aug. 7. The entire range of temperature in the
week was therefore 26.8 deg.. The mean of the
highest temperatures of the water of the Thames
was 62 deg. ; that of the lowest was 60.5 deg.
The difference between the mean-dew point tem-
perature and air temperature was 5.7 deg. The

-mean degree of humidity of the air was 82,
complete saturation being represented by 100.
Rain fell to the amount of 1.09 in. A few meteors
were seen during the night of Saturday, Aug. 10.
According to a return furnished by the engineer of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily
quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames
at the Southern Outfall Works, Crossness, was
51,645,039 gallons, or 231,617 cubic metres, equi-
valent to about as many tons by weight.

The London sewers will carry off, according to
the computation of Mr. litzalgette, in addition to
the sewage, fin. of rain in 24 hours ; but between
midnight and 9 o'clock of Friday morning, July
26, Hin. rain fell, not like a thunderstorm, but by
a uniform downfall extending over the whole me-
tropolitan area. London was eovered with 26 mil-

lion tons of water. The tide rose as the storm fell,
so that the discharge of the waters by the sewers
into the Thames became impossible ; and the lower
parts of South London were flooded, where at high
water the river is Gft. or 7ft. higher than the streets
and 12ft. higher than the basements of the houses.
(See Report of Engineer to the Metropolitan Board
of Works, Aug. 9, 1867).