The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-12 00:00:00

THE .HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY.

The health of the country during the last quarter
has been favourable. A diminution in mortality
has occurred in towns, and hence it is fairly attri-
buted by the Registrar-General to the abolition of
cesspools, the purification of the air, and the various
sanitary works which many of them carried out.
The increase of the population of the United King-
dom (an excess of births over deaths) occurs at the
rate of about 1,042 per day, which;at the ordinary
rates of mortality, will supply 347 daily of the age
of 20. Thus we can estimate the rate of growth of
our population, and, regarding England as a nur-
sery for ono of the finest types of the human
race, rejoice alike in our prolific production, and
in the possession of noble colonies, to which the
rncris;e...or there. £OlO4 of English soil may bn use-
fully transplanted. Neverthelese,- it must be re-
corded that the number of deaths is in excess of the
standard mortality of 63 healthy districts in Eng-
land by 30.806. These deaths represent an immense
material loss to the country, which would be vastly
swelled were the proper additions made to it for
direct and indirect expenses of attendant and con-
current sickness. They are the result of causes
which are removable, and which it is undoubtedly
" the duty of every member of the community to en-
deavour to remove." The remedies are mainly com-
plete drainage, a pure and plentiful water supply,
and free ventilation. In addition to the want
of these, the mortality of the people is
enhanced by local and temporary causes, more or
less under the control, such as trade failures, strikes,
deficient wages, ignorance and neglect of mothers,
and insufficient medical attendance. Thus the Re-
gistrar of East Wymer has reported that " the
large number of deaths (18) from atrophy seems, on
inquiry, to depend on improper food, from the
mothers not suckling their children, as they sry
it would interfere too much with their work." The
Registrar of Bilston says well, " I fear that little
notice is taken of illness until secondary symptoms
appear, when medical aid is too late. Persons first
apply to a druggist, and afterwards to a medical
man, but not till the day before death." These are
accidental causes of mortality, but sufficiently wide-
spread to deserve attention. The work of sanita-
tion promises to go on bravely in all that relates to
air, water, and drainage. The medical practitioners
who first started and impelled this movement may
continue the good work by exposing all other
soureerof wholesale disease.—The Lancet.

MINES.—In the Mining Share Market this week
a fair average amount of business has been done, but no-
thing very striking. Good progressive stocks have the
most attention, and North Downs, East Caradon, East
Russell, Holmbush, and a few others, have had a good rise.
South Frances, inquired for, at 145 to 150; at the meeting
on Monday the accounts showed a profit of £1,842 14s. on
two months' workine., and a dividend of £1,736, or £3 10.
per share, declared, Laving £1,918 3s. 6d. to next meeting's
credit. From the report it appears the ends in the aggregate
are worth £ts per fin. ; stopes and wines worth £lO5 per frn.
In the report at the previous meeting the ends were worth £33
per fm., stopes and winzas £99, so that the present shows
an improvement in both. East Russell have been very
largely dealt in, and on Wednesday opened at 11A, but
quickly rose to 12, 121, with a very firm appearance, but
later in the day, after large purchases had boon made, the
price was put down to 111. On Thursday, the report of Capt.
Richards, of Great Devon, received at the office of the com-
pany, stated the lode in the 88 cast continued a fine course of
ore, worth XlOO per fin. In the 66 cast the lode also very pro-
mising. with good stones of ore ; the shares leave off 11 to
111. East Caradon, after declining to ti, rose on Thursday
to , 81, and after a good business leave off 84 to 81. - A
circular has been sent round to the shareholders, that the
south part of the taunter lode has been cut, worth £2O per
fathom. Alfred Consols, 4 to 44 ; Calstock Consols, 4to 4} ;
St. Day United, 225. 6d. to 255. ; at the meeting the ac-
counts showed a profit of £497 18s. 3d., and a balance in
favour of the mine of £684 10s. sd.—Mining Journal of
this day.
SHIPBUILDING ON TILE CLYDE.—Steam ship-
building on tho Clyde is being prosecuted with groat ac-
tivity, sonic of the yards being so busy that the men work
by torchlight. Tho Messrs. Napier have been instructed
by the Cunard Compady to proceed with an iron paddle
steamer of 4,000 tons, ann corresponding power. She will
be pried the Scotia, and will be 500 tons larger than the
Persia. In the Greenock yards great activity prevails in
pressing forward war vessels, and a few days since 40 ship
carpenters left Greenock for Portsmouth. Messrs. Simone
and Co. have launched an iron screw steamer of 3,50 tenet
intended for India. She has been named the Prince of
Orange, and is being fitted with a pair of Randolph, Elder,
and Co.'s engines, which have been adopted with such
success, as regards a redueen consumption of fuel, in some
of the large ocean steamers.
DEATH Olt M. AMEDEE RENEE. The death is
announced of this well-known French journalist. M.
Renee was the author of several works. The last wars,
" The Nieces of Mazarin," and " Manners and Characters
of the Eighteenth Century." He formerly contributed to
the Revue de Paris, and to the Encyclopedie des Gens du
Monde. In the spring of 1857, he replaced M. de Cesena as
redacteur-en-chef of the Constitutionnel and of the Pays,
but was not acting in that capacity at the time of his death.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the
names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates
to practise, on Thursday, November 10 :—Benjamin Sins-
menu, Taunton College ; William Willis, Enniskillen ; and
John Greene, Sedgley, Staffordshire. The followieg gen-
tlemen also, on the same day, passed the first examination :
—Henry Colley March, Newbury, Berks ; and Somuel
Farrant, Cullompten, Devonshire.
THE "ROYAL CHARTER" RELIEF FUND.—It 15 Ai
matter of justice to Messrs. Gibbs and Bright to state that
their subscription to the relief fund is a personal one, se.
.
shareholders in the company to which the lost ehipuke.
longed, and that though the company cannot 1%11.7 sente.
scribe, its individual members are coming
tation of Messrs. Gibbs and Bright, the agents. rously in support of the subscription, at the-
liberal donation, are meet-
pany, who, apart from their own feoarn'fworestthel.°eolinici:
mg incessant calls upon therp from those whorelief, have suffered
by the wreck, and who require immediate