The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-10 00:00:00

H.EALTII OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The present return shows a rather high morta-
lity. In the two previous weeks the deaths were
1,143 and 1,133 ; in the last week ending Satur-
day, November 6, they rose to 1,217. The mean
temperature of the air in the first week of Novem-
ber was 6 deg. lower than in the latter half of
October, and to this cause apparently the increase
of mortality is due. In the ten years 1848-57 the
average number of deaths in the weeks correspond-
ing with last week was 1,028 ; but as the deaths
now returned occurred in a population which has
increased, they can only be compared with the
average when the latter is raised proportionally to
the increase—a correction by which it becomes
1,130. The comparison shows that 87 persons died
last week who would have survived if the average
rate of mortality, as found at this season in former
years, had prevailed.
If the deaths of last week had been according to
the rate of mortality that prevails in autumn in the
healthiest country districts of England they would
have been 770, and the actual excess above this
limit which the return exhibits, amounting to 447,
is therefore to be referred to causes that are only or
chiefly found in operation in London and other city
populations.
Scarlatina reached its highest point in October,
and was stationary during the greater part of that
month. It is satisfactory now to mark a decrease
in its mortality, the deaths having fallen from 156
to 138. Last week it was decidedly more fatal in
the northern than in any of the four divisions of
the metropolis. Fifteen deaths from scarlatina
occurred in Marylebone, of which more than half
were recorded in the sub district of Christchunh;
13 were returned in St. Pancras, 8 in Islington, 8
in the subdistricts of Kennington and Brixton, 4 in
that of St. Paul's, Deptford. A shoemaker and two
of his sons died of diphtheria at 209, Bethnal-
green-road within a period of six days.
The increase of the deaths in the present return
over those of the previous week, which has been
shown above, arises principally from bronchitis and
pneumonia, the former of which rose from 83 deaths
to 128, the latter from 77 to 99.
Last week the births of 890 boys and 916 girls,
in all 1,806 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848-
57, the average number was 1,535.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.212 in.
The barometrical readings were high, their daily
means having been above 30 in. throughout the
week. The highest reading was 30.45 in. on
Sunday (Oct. 31.) The mean temperature of the
air in the week was 43.3 deg., which is 2.7 degs.
below the average of the same week in 43 years.
On Monday, the coldest day, the mean temperature
was 8.5 degs. below the average. The thermometer
ranged from its lowest point 28.2 degs. on Monday,
to its highest point 53 degs. on Wednesday ; the
mean daily range was 15 degs. The difference
between the mean dew point temperature and air
temperarure was 4.1 degs.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER,
TUESDAY.—The market is rather firmer to-day than on
Friday last, and for 20's to 30's water a little higher prices
are asked -by spinners. The real amount of business is
small ; buyers think prices must bo yet lower. Some kinds
of cloth are dearer; but, on the whple, no chEuiLe can be
noted.