The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-16 00:00:00

HEALIII OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-GTneres Weekly Return)
It appears from the return issued by authority of the
Registrar-General that in the week that ended on Saturday,
May 12, the births registered in London and twelve other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,397 ; the deaths
registered, 3,496. The annual rate of mortality was 30 per
1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,076 boys
and 1,012 girls ; in all, 2,088 children were registered in
the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years
1836-65 the average number, corrected for increase of
population, was 2,006. The deaths registered in London
during the week were 1,628. It was the nineteenth week
of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that
week was, with a correction for increase of population,
1,305. The deaths in the present return exceed the esti-
mated number by 323.
In ecnsequence of the very cold weather that prevailed
in the week ending the sth inst., when the mean tempera-
ture of the air fell to 42.5 deg., the mortality of last week
shows a considerable increase. The deaths lathe last three
weeks were 1,492, 1,545, and 1,628. The deaths from
ra
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e e
whooping-cough rose to 113 ; those from phthisis, bron-
chitis, and pnemonia to 208, 188, and 101 respectively. A
noeed, d
C °rElknan
aged 70,, years, died
accelerated
aStet.dJobhyn-wetarenet.t;
Post mortem. (Inquest.) A seaman died in the workhouse,
St. George-in-the-East, of " frost-bite." The two follow-
ing deaths by cholera were registered :—A girl, aged 5
years, died on 6th May, at 5, Gibraltar-walk, Hackney-
road, of " cholera." It is added in a note--" I have reason
to believe that this was simply a bad case of English cho-
lera." A boy, aged 4 years, died on the 11th of May at 4,
Victory-place, Bermondsey, of " choleraic diarrh (six
hours)." The following two deaths by carriage accidents
were registered in the week : —" A railway van guard, aged
14 years, fell from a vanity Upper Thames-street. Died on
3d May in a few minutes. The wife of a labourer, aged 53
run
years, over by a brewer's cart, manslaughter against
the driver. Died on 30th April at Plumstead.
The Registrar-General has received returns from the
Registrar of Records and Vital Statistics for New York,
where
the causes of death are now returned weekly in
the
same form as in London. Tho total deaths in the week
ending April 21 were 421, of which 15 were from fever, 2
from "infantile cholera." Twelve were natives of England,
99 of Ireland, and 52 of Germany, and 249 of the United
States. The mean temperature was 58 dogs. in the third
week of April—that of Greenwich was 50.8. The causes
of 1860 show the population of New York to have been in
that year 805,651.

The annual rate of mortality last week was 28 per 1,000
in London, 31 in Edinburgh, and 25 in Dublin ; 33 in
Bristol, 26 in Birmingham, 36 in Liverpool, 31 in Man-
chester, 33 in Salford, 34 in Sheffield, 39 in Leeds, 28 in
Hull, and 29 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 33 in Glasgow.
LIVERPOOL.—The Registrar-General is informed by Dr.
Trench that in the week ending sth inst. three fatal cases
of cholera were registered within the borough, and that
one additional case was recorded during the week ending
last Saturday, 12th. inst. All these four deaths occurred in
the workhouse, among German emigrants. Those deaths
which took place on board the vessels in the river are not
here included, as they were beyond the limits of the regis-
tration districts. _

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.777 in. The atmo-
spheric pressure increased to 30.11 in. on Monday, and de-
clined to 29.43 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 51.7 deg., which is 0.3 deg above
the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined
by Mr. Glaisher.) The highest day temperature was 66. G
deg. on Tuesday. The lowest night temperature occurred
on the same day, and was 41.2 deg. The difference between
the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was
8.9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 72,
complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind
blew from the south-west and west. Half an inch of rain
fell in the week; the most of it on Friday.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. —This Day.

LONDON, May 16.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

LryEnrooL, May 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bowfell,
from Calcutta. Saited—Patna, for Hong Kong ; Sir H.
Lawrence, for Calcutta.

CLYDE, May 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Abbie Thomas,
from Trinidad.
Orr LITERPOOL, May 15.—wind S.W.—Arzived--.
Stephenson, from Pernambuco.

CARDIFF, May 15.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Hindo, for
Monte Video.

OFF PLYMOUTH, May 14.—Arrived—Wave Queen, from,
Al goa Bay:
OFF CROGRECAVEN, May 11.—Arrived—City of London,
screw steamer, from New York.

DUNDEE, May 15. —Wind S.E.—Arrived—Dundee, from
Calcutta.

PLYMOUTH, May 14.—Wind W.—Sailed—Lord Nelson,
for Melbourne.

COWES, May 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Hermann,
screw steamer, from New York.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 15.—Wind W.—Sailed—Saxonia,
screw steamer, for New York.

IBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM. 1
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, May 15—Radient, from Winda.o ; Ann Catba..
rina, from Revel.
Sailed, May 16—Belgium, steamer, for Ostend ; Vigi.
lant, steamer, for Calais; Xantippe, for Trinidad; Non-
pareil, for Moreton Bay ; Robin Hood and Portland, for
Hongkong; Callera„ for Bombay; Star of Peace, for St.
Holena ; Gladstone, for Calcutta ; Montrose, for St. -Vin-
cent ; Spanker, for Colombo ; Lucerne, for Corfu.

No arrivals.
Sailed—Lorenzo, for London.