The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-25 00:00:00

TEE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, Sept. 21,
4,466 births, and 2,828 deaths were registered in
London and in twelve other large towns of the
United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality
was 24 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 19 per
1,000 in London, 21 in Edinburgh, and 24 in Dublin;
20 in Bristol, 28 in Birmingham, 29 in Liverpool,
35 in Manchester, 33 in Salford, 28 in Sheffield, 37
in Leeds, 40 in Hull, 34 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
and 22 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 25 per
1,000 during the week ending the 14th inst., when
the mean temperature was 7 deg. Fahrenheit higher
than the same week in London, where the rate
was 21.

The lower temperature which prevailed during
last week influenced the mortality in diarrhoea. The
deaths referred to this disease in the ten large towns,
which in the two previous weeks had been 507 and
577, declined to 436 last week. Of the annual
death-rates from all causes per 1,000 in the week,
the mortality from diarrhoea was 2 in London and
Bristol, 4 i❑ Newcastle, 6 in Liverpool and Salford,
9 in Sheffield, 10 in Birmingham, Manchester, and
Leeds, and 12 in Hull. In both Sheffield and Hull
the fatality of diarrhma was greater than in the
previous week. A considerable decrease, however,
was shown in nearly all the other towns.

In London the births of 1,121 boys and 1,094 girls,
in all 2,215 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1857-66,
the average number, corrected for increase of popu-
lation, is 2,092.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,138. It was the thirty-eighth week of the
year, and the average number of deaths for that
weak is, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, 1,238. The deaths in the present return are
less by 100 than tire estimated number.
The deaths of 106 children and 8 adults from
diarrhcea were registered last week ; 10 cases occurred
in the west, 31 in the north, 7 in the central, 25 in
the east, and 41 in the south districts. In the week
which ended 6th July the deaths from diarrhcea
were 54 ; and in the ten following weeks they were
115, 170, 196, 217, 189, 200, 196, 226, 198, and
203 ; therefore the decrease in the present return is
considerable. The deaths of 12 persons from cholera
or choleraic diarrhcea were registered last week ; one
in Chelsea, one in Pancras, one in St. Giles's, one
in Clerkenwell, one in Shoreditch, one in St.George-
in-the-East, three in Mile-end Old Town, one in
Bow, one in St. George, Southwark, and one in
Camberwell. In the Strand Union Workhouse, on
the 15th September, a labourer, aged 26 years, died
of cholera Asiatica. The medical officer reports that
the deceased, the day before his death, drank freely
from the water of a well used only for washing
down the yard. In the corresponding week of last
year the deaths from diarrhoea were 98, and from
cholera 150. Forty-four persons died last week from
typhus, which is most fatal in the south districts of
the metropolis. Six deaths from typhus and four
from scarlatina occurred in _Newington. Fifteen
deaths from smallpox, 15 from measles, 34 from
scarlatina, three from diphtheria, and 16 from
whooping cough were recorded. The daughter of a
coachman, aged six years, died on the 18th Sept.,
at 5, Cambridge-mews, Regent's Park, from " sun
stroke (24 hours)."
The deaths of four persons who were killed by
horses or carriages in the streets were registered.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.035
inches. The barometrical reading increased from
29.76 in. at the beginning of the week to 30.21
in. on Wednesday, 18th ; decreased to 29.97 in. on
Thursday, 19th ; increased to 30.05 in. on Friday,
20th ; and was 29.90 in. on Saturday, 21st. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 54.8
deg., which is 1.7 deg. below the average of the
same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 68.3
deg on Thursday, Sept. 19. The lowest night tem-
perature was 4.1.2 deg. on Tuesday, Sept. 17.