The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-07 00:00:00

The Public Health.

The following is the weekly return of the Regis-
trar-General of births and deaths in London and in
12 other large towns of the United Kingdom :
General Register-office, Somerset-house, June 4.

In the week that ended on Saturday, June 2, the
births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,380 ; the
deaths resistered, 3,314. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 28 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,111 boys and 1,025
girls, in all 2,136 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years,
1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 1,922.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,540. It was the 22d week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week was,
with a correction for increase of population, 1,195.
The mortality is still very high. It is in excess
of the estimated amount by 345.
In the last six weeks the weekly number of deaths
from whooping-cough bas ranged from 97 to 117.
Last week it was 185, the corrected average for the
end of May being 53. Of the 105 cases, 12 occurred
in Pancras, 6 in Islington, 10 in the Shoreditch dis-
trict, 10 in Lambeth. There were 63 fatal cases of
measles, 59 of typhus, 48 of scarlatina, 24 of small
pox, 19 of diarrhoea. Six children died of measles
in Westminster, and 6 in Islington.
The following two deaths from cholera were regis-
tered :—On May 28,
at 58, North-street, Walworth,
the son of a labourer, aged 10 months, died of
"Asiatic
cholera (one day)." On May 31, at 3,
Charles-street, Bethnal-green, the son of a ware-
houseman, aged 5 years, died of " choleraic diar-
rhcea" (24 hours) ; convulsion (6 hours).
A blacksmith, aged 47 years, died of " melanosis
of the lung" (6 months).
The following five deaths were caused by car-
riage accidents in the streets :—The widow of a
bootmaker, aged
70 years, knocked down by a
brougham horse in Elizabeth-street, Pimlico ; died
on May 17, after five days' illness. The daughter
of a carriage trimmer, aged 7 years, run over by a
cart ; died on May 25 in the Middlesex Hospital.
The daughter of a shoemaker, aged 3 years, run
over by a cart ; died on May 22 in Abbey-lane,
Hampstead. The son of a ship joiner, aged 6 years,
run over by two vans. Manslaughter ; died on
May 21 in Grove-road, Bethnal-green. A coal car-
man, aged 55 years, jammed between a cart and a
wall at Deptford ; died after six days' illness in
Guy's Hospital. _ _

The annual rate of mortality last week was 26
per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 24 in
Dublin ; 26 in Bristol, 26 in Birmingham, 41 in
Liverpool, 33 in Manchester, 23 in Salford, 30 in
Sheffield, 30 in Leeds, 15 in Hull, 26 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 34 in Glasgow.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.633 in.
The atmospheric pressure rose to 29.81 on Wed-
nesday, and fell to 29.51 in. on Friday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 56.2 deg.,
which is very near the average of the same week in
50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
highest temperature in the shade was 75 deg. on
Saturday ; the highest in the sun 104 deg. on Mon-
day and Friday. The difference between the mean