The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-14 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The following is the weekly return of the
Registrar-General of Births and deaths in London
and in 12 other large towns of the United King-
dom :

General Register-office, Somerset-house,
Dec. 10.

In the week that ended on Saturday, Dec. 8, the
births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,018 ; the
deaths registered, 3,330. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 28 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 983 boys and 987 girls,
in all 1,970 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding week of ten years 1856-65 the
average number, corrected for increase of popula-
tion, was 2,001.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,584. It was the 49th week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,525. The
deaths in the present return exceed the estimated
number by 59. The excess is amply accounted for
by bronchitis, a disease of cold weather.
Only one death from cholera was registered in the
seven days ; it Ras the death of a labourer's Child,
aged 21 years, at 37, Church-street, Poplar. The
deaths from cholera in the last five weeks have been
67, 32, 8,3, and 1.
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and the results may be thus briefly summed up ; in
St. George, Hanover-square, 12 in 10,000 died of
cholera ; Chelsea, 4 ; Westminster, 6 ; Marylebone,
3 ; Kensington, 4, all on the north side of the
Thames, and supplied with water by the Grand
Junction, the Chelsea, and the West Middlesex

Companies.
The following districts on the south side of the
river were supplied by the Southwark and by the
Lambeth Companies, and the deaths by cholera to
10,000 inhabitants were in Newington, 3 ; St.
George, Southwark, 7 ; Wandsworth, 5 ; Camber-
well, 6, Rotherhithe, 9 ; Lambeth 7 ; St. Olave,
6 ; BerrOondsey, 8 ; St. Saviour, 7.
The New River, taking about 82 per cent. of its
water from the river Lea; supplies St. Martin-in-
the-Fields, where the deaths were. I. by cholera in
10,000 inhabitants ; in the City of London, 5 ; West
London, a part of the city without the walls, 12 ;
Strand, 7 ; Islington, 4 ; Holborn, ; Luke,
16 ; St. Giles, 10 ; Clerkenwell, 11. In Pancras,
chiefly supplied by the New River, the deaths were
6 ; St. James's (Westminster), 4 ; Hampstead, 1.
The East London Company draws all its water
from the river Lea, but it has pumps at two dif-
ferent stations, the one at Lea-bridge, and the other
two miles belew. at Old Ford, where it has a small
covered reservoir and two open reservoirs in " clan-

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29-68 in.
The barometrical reading increased from 29.37 in.
on Friday to 30-34 in. by the end of the week. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 46.9
deg., which is 4.8 above the average of the same
week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
The highest day temperature was 56.3 deg., on
Thursday. The lowest night temperature was 30.9
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Thames was 44.5 deg. ; that of the lowest was
414 deg.. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 3.5 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 88,
complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain
fell to the amount of 0.99 in. The general direction
of the wind was south-west. 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 out-
fall works, Crossness, was 222,840 cubic metre,.

Dr. Frankland's analysis of East London water
taken, on Nov. 8, from the Stamford-hill Reservoir
of the company gives the following results :—The
solid matter in 100,000 parts, 31.30 ; organic and
other volatile matter included in the preceding,
1.28; oxygen required for oxydation of organic
matter, •0467 ; degrees of hardness, 21.7.