The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
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 16.
In the week that ended on Saturday, Juno 16, the births
registered in London and 12 other largo towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,261; the deaths. registered 2,952.
The annual rate of mortality was 25 per 1000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,000 boys and 932 girls, in all
1,932 children, were registered in the week. In the corre-
sponding weeks of ten years 1856-65 the average number,
corrected for increase of population, was 1,928.
The deaths regikered in London during the week wero
1,370. It was the 24th week of the year ; and the average
number of deaths for that week was, with a correction
for increase of population, 1,218. The actual return ex-
ceeds the estimated number by 152.

Whooping-cough was during a long pe,ricd the most
fatal disease in the zymotic class; but last week the death
from measles rose to 80, while those from whooping-cough
declined to 71. Beth smallpox and measles prevail chiefly
in the east districts. Four deaths from smallpox occurred
in the east sub-district of Haggerstone ; six in the Green
sub-district of Bethnal-green. Six children died of measles
in the Woolwich dockyard sub-district. Diarrhoea was
fatal in 20 cases.

The following three deaths from cholera were regis-

tered :

On the 12th of June, at 3, Archibald-street, Bromley, the
daughter of a mariner, aged 8 months, "choleraic diarrlicea."
On the 13th of June, at 16, Dawson's-place, Mile-end New
Town, the daughter of a rag sorter, aged 11 months, "cho-
leraic diarrhoea (seven days)." On the 13th of June, at 6,
Swan-court, Newington, a watchman, aged 55 years,
" cholera (three days)."
It is a remarkable circumstance that three deaths from
hydrophobia were registered in the week. The following
are tho particulars of the cases :
A boatman, aged 15 years, who had been brought from
Hillingdon, near -Uxbridge, to Middlesex Hospital, died on
the sth of June of "hydrophobia from the bite of a dog."
(Post mortem. Inquest.) A boy, aged 3 years, died on the
14th of Juno at 11, North-row, Walham-green, from "bite
of a dog (5 weeks), hydrophobia (three days)." A widow,
aged 80 years, died on the 7th of June, at 47, High-street,
Islington, of "hydrophobia from the bite of a dog." (In-
quest.) Five months after the bite.
A girl, aged ten weeks, died on the 10th of June, at 9,
Pulford-street, in the Belgrave sub-district, of " starvation
or atrophy ; exhaustion."
In the workhouse, St. George's-in-the-Ea,st, on the 7th
of June, the wife of a stoker, aged 49 years "syncope ;
want of food ; privations." (Port mortem. Inquest.)
A woman, aged 32 years, died from• " sea-sickness (38
days)."

The following three deaths by carriage accidents in the
street are recorded :—Tho son of a shoemaker, aged 4 years,
run over by au omnibus; died on the 7th of June, at 18,
Arthur-terrace, Islington. The wife of a sailmaker, aged
33 years, run over; died on the 10th of Juno in the London
Hospital. Tho daughter of a dairyman, aged 1 year, run
over by a cart in Burton-street, Pimlico, on the 11th Juno,
died instanter.

The annual rate of mortality last week was 23 per 1,000
in London, 22 in Edinburgh, and 27 in Dublin; 20 in
Bristol, 20 in Birmingham, 34 in Liverpool, 27 in Manches-
ter, 25 in Salford, 28 in Sheffield, 29 in Leeds, 27 in Hull,
27 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 28 in Glasgow.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.710 in. The pressure
of the atmosphere was 29.99 in. on Sunday morning; and
it fell to 29-35 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 58.5 deg., which is 0.2 deg. below
the average of the same week in 50 years (au letermined by
Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was almost
11 deg. above the average on Sunday ; on Monday it was
about the average, and during the remainder of the week
was below it. On Sunday the thermometer in the shade
rose to 83.8 deg., the highest in the week ; and that in the
sun to 145 deg. ; on Saturday the latter attained 146 deg.
The difference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 7 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 78, complete saturation being re-
presented by 100. The wind blew from the south-west.
There was rain to the amount of 0.14 in. On Tuesday the
rainfall at Eccles was 1.64 in. At Liverpool on Saturday,
at 9h. 35m. a.m., the pressure of the wind was 12.51 b to the
square foot.

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easily assimilated nourishment as the best mat, tnd for
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