The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-15 00:00:00

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, March 10,
the births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,58 G ; the
deaths registered 4,155. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 35 per 1,000 persons living.

In London the births of 1,157 boys and 1,115 girls
—in all 2,272 children—were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, .
the average number, corrected for increase of popu-.
lation, was 2,128.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,829. It was the tenth week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,498. The
mortality in the week was excessively high, for the
actual return exceeds the estimated number by 331
deaths. The weather was cold for the season, and
the fall of the temperature has lasted, with slight
intermission, nearly four weeks.
The total deaths, which had been 1,545 in the
previous week, rose to 1,829 last week; of which
numbers those which occurred. under 20 years of age
rose from 729 to 823 ; those at the age 20-60 years
from 463 to 595, and those at GO years and upwards
rose from 348 to 411.

There were 228 deaths referred to phthisis, the
corrected average being 177 ; 285 to bronchitis,
against an average of 186 ; and 93 to pneumonia,
the average for which is 94. Scarlatina was fatal
in 54 cases, nine of which were in the sub-district
of Poplar, seven in Mile-end Old Town.

A locksmith died on the Bth inst. in the work-
house, Whitechapel, of " decay." His age, as
stated in the register of deaths, was 105 years.
A young man died in the London Hospital of
" elephantiasis of both legs ; albuminuria ; pneu-
monia."

A domestic servant died of '4 disease of the heart,
accelerated by fretting from seduction and deser-
tion." (Inquest.)
A nurse, domestic servant, aged 24 years, died of
" psoriasis inveterata (eight years) ; blood poison-
ing (three days.)"
The following six deaths by carriage accidents in
the streets were registered in the week :—A baronet,
aged 68 years, erysipelas from wound of scalp after
Ifall in the street; died on the 7th of March at the
Great Western Hotel. [lt has been explained by
the coroner that the deceased, whose sight was de-
fective, fell by running against a horse which had
been pulled up, and was standing at the moment of
the accident.] A cowkeeper's assistant, aged 19

years, thrown out of a cart in the Marylebone-road;
died on the 27th of February in St. George's Hos-
pital. A carman, aged 29 years, fell out of a cart;
died on the 2d of March in the Westminster Hos-
pital. A chimney-sweeper, aged 38 years, fell from
the step of a cart ; died on the sth of March at 7,
Upper Ogle-street, Marylebone. A brewer's ser-
vant, aged 21 years, run over by a dray in the
Bethnal-green-road ; died on the 2d of March in
St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A cabman, aged 40
years, fell from a cab ; died on the 6th of March at
1, Johanna-street, Lower-marsh, Lambeth.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 31
per 1,000 in London, 42 in Edinburgh, and 35 in
Dublin ; 37 in Bristol, 33 in Birmingham, 55 in
Liverpool, 46 in Manchester, 32 in Salford, 36 in
Sheffield, 41 in Leeds, 26 in Hull, 30 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 35 in Glasgow.
During the first seven weeks of the present 3 car,
when the mean temperature of the air was 41.5 deg.,
the average annual rate of mortality in the aggre-
gate population (6,122,894) of the 131'1g°
towns
nowthnes
of the United Kingdom was 29
per 1,000.
last three weeks, the mean
temperature
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mortality, has
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2. 35.1 deg.,
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the annual rate
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometerfueltl
to
he
2•u in. on week 9
was 29.538 in.
The barometric pressure i
Wed-
nesday, and rose to 30.23 in. on Saturday. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 36.8
deg., which is 3.4 deg. below the average of tho
same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The mean daily temperature has been
below the average constantly for 13 days. The
lowest night temperature in the week was 27.5 deg.,
on Sunday, the 4th inst., and the thermometer fell
below the freezing point of water on three other
nights, and on the remaining three nights to a point
but little above it. The difference between the mean

dew point temperature and air temperature was 5.4
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
81, complete saturation being represented by 100.
The wind was chiefly N.N.E. on the last three days.
The tenth part of an inch of rain fell.

AllaAcuLous ESCAPE.—A servant girl living a
Bishop Auckland was cleaning the top windows of a three-
storied house on Saturday night, when she overbalanced
herself and fell to the ground, a distance of 30 feet, and,
strange to say, was picked up little the worse beyond the
severe shock to the nervous system. In her fall she had
come in contact with a clothes line.
RELEASE OF JANE IiARRIS.—At the Devon assizes
on Monday, Mary Jane Harris, the accomplice of the noto-
rious Charlotte Wriusor, and the mother of the child for
whose murder the latter is under sentence of death, was
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