The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-02 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

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(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, April 28,
the births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,570; the
deaths registered 3,349. The annual rate of morta-
lity was 29 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,080 boys and 1,107
girls, in all 2,187 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding week of ten years'
1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,062.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,492. It was the seventeenth week in the
year, and the average number of deaths for that
week is, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, 1,355. The deaths in the present return el"
coed by 137 the estimated number.
The mortality among children from whooping'
cough continues high ; 97 fatal cases of it were re-
gistered in the week, 30 of which were in the south
districts of London. Twenty-one deaths occurred
from small-pox, 60 from measles, 17 from scarlatina)
8 from diphtheria, and 63 from typhus.
Phthisis proved fatal to 227 persons ; 150 deaths
were caused by bronchitis and 95 by pneumonia.
Two deaths were registered in the week as having
been caused by carriage accidents :—A bricklayer,
aged 50 years, run over by a cab ; died April 15, At
3, Wick-road, Hackney. A female, aged 51 yeah'
run over ; died April 18, in the London Hospital.
Two children died of cholera diarrhoea during the
week. The particulars of a death by cholera at
Bristol are recorded in a subsequent note. The
people of that city are, no doubt, alive to the lin'
portance of destroying every vestige of " rice-water
evacuations " in such cases.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 25
per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 26 in
Dublin ; 26 in Bristol, 28 in Birmingham, 38 in
Liverpool, 32 in Manchester, 36 in Salford, 28 in
Sheffield, 33 in Leeds, 26 in Hull, 29 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 37 in Glasgow.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.877 in'
The barometrical reading decreased from 30.29 in'
on Sunday to 29.29 in. on Saturday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 52.6 degl
which is 4.9 deg. above the average of the same week
in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glasbier). The
highest day temperature was 79.0 deg. on Friday'.
Thu lowest night temperature was 38.4 deg. °II
Sunday. The entire range of temperature ill the
week was, therefore, 40.6 deg. The mean degree °f
humidity of the air was 73, complete saturation
being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount
of 0.58 in. on Saturday. The direction of the Win',
was variable. _

The Registrar-General has received the following
letter in reference to a fatal case of cholera at
Bristol :

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" 2, Queen-square, Bristol, April 24, 1866.
" Sir,—At 5 o'clock yesterday I was asked to visit rfaurl
Thomas, mariner, at Prince-street toll-gato in this el*" •
found him suffering all the symptoms of Asiatic 601°8.
Ho died about 5 a.m. this morning. He left Java Wye"
comber, And arrived at Rotterdam April 14.; left Rotterdaul
last Sunday morning (April 22), and reached Londell
Monday, 23d, at 8 a.m. He left immediately by train fe;ir
Bristol ; was taken ill in the train about 11 a.m. ; Wa3
only 18 hours. He had rice-water evacuations, most vio-
lent cramp of almost every muscle, cold perspirationat
sunken eyelids, &c. I saw a great deal of cholera in 18491
and I could not distinguish this from a genuine case. 11'81°
signed the certificate of death 'cholera.' As the case is i°°..
lated I did not insert the word but I believe „
was a case of that disease. My friend Dr. Win- Budd
visited the corpse with me this morning, and he is films' 9
of opinion it was Asiatic cholera, brought from Rotterdam'
Your obedient servant, "DAVID DAVIES, 31.E.C.5•
" The Registrar General."