The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-20 00:00:00

HEALTH Or LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, February 16,
the births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 5,032; the
deaths registered, 3,120. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,244 boys and 1,186
girls, in all 2,430 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years
1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,175.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,389. It was the seventh week of the year,
and the average number of deaths for the week is,
with a correction for increase of population, 1,503.
The deaths in the present return are less by 114
than the estimated number.

The mortality of the metropolis has rapidly de-
creased, and the salutary effects of a higher tempe-
rature are now apparent. In the week which ended
Jan. 19 the mean temperature of the air was 26.0
deg., and in the following week 1,880 deaths were
registered ; in the week which ended Feb. 9 the
mean temperature was 13.1 deg., and last week the
deaths were 1,389. A rise of 17 deg. of temperature
has been followed by a reduction of 491 deaths.
Twenty-seven deaths from small-pox were regis-
tered last week ; in the preceding week the number
was 47. Typhus proved fatal last week to 44 per-
sons, of whom 10 belonged to the West, 12 to the
North, 6 to the Central, 13 to the East, and 3 to
the South districts. In stating these results, the 11
deaths that occurred in the London Fever hospital,
Islington, are referred to the districts from which
the patients had been brought. Twenty children
died from scarlatina, and 60 from whooping-cough.
Thirteen deaths from burns or scalds were recorded ;
4 men were burnt on Feb. 11 by a house taking
fire at Tooting. The son of a tailor, aged 10, run
over by a van, died on Feb. 8, in St. Bartholomew's
Hospital.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per
1,000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 34 in Dub-
lin ; 23 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 31 in Liver-
pool, 30 in Manchester, 28 in Salford, 26 in Shef-
field, 28 in Leeds, 25 in Hull, 37 in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, and 30 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was
32 per 1,000 during the week ending the 9th inst.,
when the mean temperature was 24 deg. Fahren-
heit lower than in the same week in London, where
the rate was 27.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.947 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 30.23 in.
on Wednesday to 29.62 in. on Friday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 46.7 deg.,
which is 8.4 deg. above the average of the same
week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 57.1
deg. on Saturday. The lowest night temperature was
37.9 deg. on Tuesday. The entire range of tempera-
ture in the week was, therefore, 19.2 deg. The
mean of the highest temperatures of the water
of the Thames was 44.9 deg. ; that of the lowest

I was 428 deg. The difference between the mean
I dew-point temperature and air temperature was 4.7
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
84, complete saturation being represented by 100.
Rain fell to the amount 0f.0.38in, -of which 0.24 in.
fell on Monday. The direction of the wind was
variable. 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 ou:fall works, Cross-
ness, was 44,220,.516 gallons, or 200,911 cubic
metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight.