The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-11 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

From the weekly return of the Registrar-General it
appears that in the week ending Saturday, Dec. 7, 4,031
births and 3,394 deaths were registered in London and in
twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 29 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 27 per 1,000
in London, 31 in Edinburgh, and 25 in Dublin ; 28 in
Bristol, 29 in Birmingham, 34 in Liverpool, 36 in Man.
chester, 29 in Salford, 27 in Sheffield, 24 in Leeds, 27 in
Ilull, 30 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 33 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 24 per 1,000 during the week ending the
30th ult., when the mean temperature was 7.1 deg. Fahren-
heit lower than in the same week in London, where the
rate was 27. In London the births of 1,008 boys and 951
girls, in all 1;959 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of ten years 1857-66 the
average number, corrected for increase of population, is
2,050. The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,588. It was the forty-ninth week of the year, and the
average number of deaths for that week is, with a correc-
tion for increase of population, 1,554. The deaths in the
present return exceed by 34 the estimated number. The
cold weather which has prevailed during the last few
weeks has caused an increase in the number of deaths,
particularly from diseases of the respiratory organs.
Since the Ist of November the mean temperature
has been below the average on twenty-eight days,
and the mean temperature last week was 351 deg.
The poor especially suffer from the effects of cold, and
young children and old persons insufficiently clothed, and
without a proper quantity of food, fall easy victims to
disease. The returns of last week skew that three per-
cons have recently died suffering from " privation." At
this inclement season supplies of food, fuel, and clothing
to those who are in want would save many lives. Sixteen
deaths occurred last week from smallpox, 41 from measles,
32 from scarlatina, 48 from whooping-cough, 51 from
typhus, and 13 from diarrhcea. Phthisis proved fatal to
165 persons, 288 deaths occurred from bronchitis, 139
from pneumonia, and 55 from diseases of the heart.

A CHANGE POR THE BETTER ITV

TIPPERARY.

A correspondent of the Express gives a very gratifying
account of the state of West Tipperary as compared with
other places in Ireland. He says there is not a single
Tipperary man confined for treasonable practices or co•
(Miens language. No processions have been made ; but,
on the contrary, all classes are unanimous in condemning
such proceedings, and are steadily exigaged in attending
to their various occupations. He adds kr
" The loyal feeling is predominant in Tipperary—a
pleasing fact, whioh is owing to the good sense and inho.
rent loyalty of the masses, and to the laudable exhortations
of the Roman Catholic clergy, who are unanimous in their
condemnation of Fenianism. The Royal Irish constabu•
lary stationed in this town (Nenaghi—only about forty
men, a rather limited number for the chief town in the
North Riding of Tipperary—have, owing to the peaceful
state of the district, little or nothing to do, if we except
the usual duty inseparable from their position in a largo
and populous district, and a `real live Fenian' would be
as much an object of curiosity as his Royal Highness the
brother of the Tycoon."
Such a state of things presents a remarkable contrast
to that exhibited in former years, when. Tipperary was
stained with blood, and obtained a terrible notoriety for
its crimes. The extent of the change may be inferred
from the accounts which are on record of its condition in
1834, when nearly the same political questions which now
agitate the country were exciting the public mind. It
was estimated that murders were committed then at the
appalling rate of four a week, and the lord•lieutenant
of the county reported to the Irish Executive that 556
murders had been committed in two years and five
months.

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