The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-20 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, June 15,
the births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,470 ; the
deaths registered, 2,567. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 22 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,121 boys and 1,041
girls, in all 2,162 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years 1857-
66, the average number, corrected for increase of
population, is 1,968.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,094. It was the twenty-fourth week of the
year, and the average number of deaths for that
week is, with a correction for increase of population,
1,256. The deaths in the present return are less
by 162 than the estimated number.
The mortality in the metropolis was lower last
week than in any week since that which ended
on 12th July, 1862, when 1,065 deaths were
registered.
The deaths from zymotic diseases last week were
210. Twenty-six were caused by smallpox ;
of which 12 occurred in the south districts. The
deaths from whooping-cough were 33 ; 7 in the
west, 6 in the north, 3 in the central, 10 in the
east, and 7 in the south districts. Thirty-three
deaths from typhus, 19 from measles, 16 from
scarlatina, and 31 from diarrhoea were recorded.
Kensington (St. Paul, Hammersmith).—ln Ship-
lane, on the Bth of Jun; the son of a labourer, aged
four years, " English cholera" (46 hours). Ber-
mondsey (St. James's)—At 8, Alfred-place, Salis-
bury-street, on the 14th June, the daughter of a
ropemaker's labourer, aged five months, " choleraic
diarrhoea (six days), convulsions (20 hours)."
The deaths of two persons who were killed by
vehicles in the streets were registered :—A black-
smith, aged 39 years, run over, died on the 6th of
June in the London Hospital (inquest). The son
of a smith, aged 7 years, run over, died on the 31
of June in St. Thomas's Hospital (inquest).
The annual rate of mortality last week was 19 per
I,oooin London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 28
in
Dublin ; 21 in Bristol, 19 in Birmingham,
26 in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 24 in Sal-
ford, 23 in Sheffield, 25 in Leeds, 25 in Hull, 28
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 24 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 30 per 1,000 during the week
ending the Bth inst., when the mean temperature
was 11.7 deg:Fahrenheit higher than in the same
week in London, where the rate was 19.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.941 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 30.14 in.
on Tuesday, the 11th of June, to 29.66 in. on
Friday, June 14. The mean temperature of the
air in the week was 59.9 deg., which is 1.4
deg. above the average of the same week in 50
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). Ihe
highest day temperature was 82.1 deg. on Wed-
nesday, June :12. The lowest night temperature
was 44.4 deg., on Saturday, June 15. The entire
range of temperature in the week was, therefore,
37.7 deg. The mean of the highest temperature of
the water of the Thames was 62.4 deg. ; that of
the lowest was 61.0 deg. The difference between
the mean-dew point temperature and air tempera-
ture was 9.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity
of the air was 71, complete saturation being repre-
sented by 100. Rain fell during the week to
the amount of 0.06 in. 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 46,333,379
gallons, or 210,514 cubic metres, equivalent to
about as many tons by weight. The Water Com-
panies during the last month gave more than their
average supply.
The Rectistrar-General has to acknowledge the
courtesy of the London Water Companies, who
have furnished him with the average daily quantity
of water supplied for the month of May, 1867; thus,
according to their account, 99,865,339 gallons, or
453,734 cubic metres of water, equal to about as
many tuns by measure, tons by weight, were sup-
plied daily ; or 1,031 auras, rather more thin a ton
by weight, to each housc, and 147 litres (-132
gallons) to each person.

SHEEP-BREEDING IN PRUSSIAN POLAND.—Some
of the principal landowners in the Grand Duchy
of Posen have •lately bestowed much attention on the
breeding of sheep, and their efforts in this direction have
been so successful that at an agricultural exhibition which
took place at Breslau last spring, the superiority of the
system which they had adopted was officially acknow-
ledged. This opinion was fully borne out by the result
of the international sheep-breeders which has just closed
at Paris. M. Casimir Chlapowshi and Count
sheep-breeders in Prussian Poland, obtained the first prize
on this occasion, and their sheep was much admired for
the fineness and purity of their wool,