The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-24 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

TVEEK.

(From the Registrar:General's Report)
The population of London is apparently more
movable than any other city population. It senCs
out emigrants, it is recruited to a large extent by
immigrants, and in the changing seasons of the
year thousands come and go. In the present week
many of its visitors are gone; thousands of the
inhabitants are away, yet these waves of the vast
population produce little disturbance in the vital
phenomena. Deaths and births suffer no inter-
ruption. 1,188 persons died; 1,781 children were
born in the week ending Saturday August 20th.
The deaths, it is gratifying to find, are below the
average. In the corresponding week of 1849 and
1850, 2,230 and 1,883 of the people perished ; but
the deaths in the corresponding weeks of other
years, after due correction for the increase of popu-
lation, were 1,885.
The deaths have decreased since the last of the
two hot weeks (July 17-23 d) from 1,605 to 1,888 ;
but still exceed by nearly 200 the weekly deaths
in June.

Diarrhoea is decreasing ; the deaths in the week
were 240. The east and south districts suffer most
severely. Ten persons died of cholera, eight chil-
dren and two men. One, the collector of the Kent
Water Company, living in Bowater-crescent, Wool%
wich Dockyard, was 68 years old, and died on the
17th of August, of cholera, after two days' illness.
A compositor, aged 34, en the 15th of August, at
9, Adelphi-terrace, Bethnal-green ; his death is
said to have been by cholera without diarrhoea,
after 43 hours' illness. The absence of premonitory
diarrhoea may well be questioned.
Twenty persons, including 14 unhappy children
under five years of age, died of small-pox, 14 of
measles, 51 of scarlatina, 17 of diphtheria, 23 of
whooping-cough, and 37 of fever. 140 persons, of
whom 63 were of an age 20-40, died of consump-
tion. 28 persons died by accident or negligence ;
namely, 12 by mechanical injuriis, 4by burns, 1
by poison, 10 by drowning, and 1 by suffocation ;
1 person was murdered, 5 committed suicide, 3 died
suddenly without stated cause.
Last week the births of 917 boys and 864 girls, in
all 1,781 children, were registered in London. In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58, the
average number was 1,555.
The mean temperature of the week was 63.9
deg., or nearly the same as it was in the two
previous weeks. The means of the daily highest
and lowest temperatures were 76.6 deg. and 55.6
deg.; the range 21.0 deg. The Thames remained
at 67.6 deg., and, fluctuating only one degree, was
was 9 deg. cooler in the day, and 12 deg. warmer
than the air at night. The barometer rose from
29.666 in. on Monday to 30.005 in. on Tuesday ;
it was 30.020 in. on Saturday, when the air was
excessively dry. Saturation being 100, the hu-
midity of the air in the week was 77. The wind
was variable. Rain fell in small quantities (0.22
in.) on Monday and Wednesday. Haze and fog
prevailed at times. Electricity was positive but
weak, except on Saturday, when the tension
became strong.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

WHITEHALL, AUG. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Gillory Pigott,
Esq., one of her Majesty's Sergeants-at-law, William
Henry Willes, Esq., and Wyndham Slade, Esq., to be
Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the
existence of Corrupt Practices at the last Election for the
Borough of Wakefield.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint James
Vaughan, Esq., Lucius Henry Fitzgerald, Esq., and
Richard Griffiths Welford, Esq., to be Commissioners for
the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of Cor-
rupt Practices at the late Election for the City of Gloucester.

WHITEHALL, Aun. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Edward Hay Drummond Hay, Esq., Governor of
the Island of St. Helena.