The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(Feonz the Registrar-General's Report.)

The health of London is now in an average state.
The deaths in the week ending on Saturday, Aug.
27, amounted to 1,217, whereas the corrected ave-
rage deaths in the corresponding weeks of 10 pre-
vious weeks were 1,120, if the two weeks of 1849
and 1854 are excluded, when cholera was epidemic,
and 2,456 and 2,039 persons died.
474 persons died of zymotic diseases, including
22 of smallpox, 12 of measles, 78 of scarlatina, 13
of diphtheria, 6of croup, 16 of whooping-cough,
46 of typhus, 215 of diarrhea, and 10 of cholera.
Of the deaths from diarrhoea 174 occurred under 2
years of age. Six children under 2 years of age,
three of the age of 2 and under 15; and one man,
of 37 years of awe, died of " debility after choleroid
diarrhoea" in the Dreadnought Hospital ship. He
was a ship's cook.
The diarrhoea is most prevalent in the East dis-
tricts (60 deaths), and in the South dictricts (69
deaths). The deaths from this disease in the me-
tropolis in six weeks have progressively fallen from
415 to 383, 312, 296, 240, and 215.
253 persons died of constitutional diseases, in-
cluding 31 by cancer, and 148 by consumption.
Of 307 deaths by ocal diseases, 100 attacked the
nervous system, 71 the breathing organs, and 64
the digestive organs.
25 persons died by accidents or negligence—
namely, 7 by mechanical injuries, 3 by burns, 1 by
poison, 10 by drowning, and 4 by suffocation. 3
deaths are referred to murder or manslaughter, and
5 to suicide. _ _ _

Last week the births of 840 boys and 870 girls,
in all 1,710 children were registered in London. In
the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58,
the average number was 1,523.
The barometer was above 30 in. in the three first
and fell to nearly 29 in. on the four last days of
the week. The temperature was high on Thursday,
when the thermometer rose to 91.3 deg. in the
shade ; a thunderstorm followed, and in. of rain
fell. Lightning was seen and distant thunder was
heard on Saturday evening. The air was dry, and
the mean temperature was 66.6 deg. ; the daily
mean of the highest was 81.0 deg., of the lowest
54.6 deg. The water of the Thames ranged only
from 67'2 deg. to 68.7 deg. The wind blew from
north-west and south-west, at the rate of little more
than 21 miles an hour.

The Precentorship of Chichester Cathedral has
been conferred upon the Rev. Geo. Croke Rowden, D.C.L.
of New College, Oxford.
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