The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

MILITIA.

The 4th Mid.llesex Militia, consisting of 30 offi-
cers and 688 men, arrived at Aldershot yesterday
from lounslow, under 'the command of Colonel

Scriven.

Viscount Hill, the Lord-Lieutenant, has cora-
muniolted to the Shropshire County Militia tbat
the regiment is to be forthwith embodied. Some of
the officers have volunteered for service in India.

The Highland Borderers, or Stirlingshire Regi-
ment, has offered for foreign service, but the offer
has been declined by the War-office. The regiment
will be at once embodied and called out for active
duty at home.

BEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK:

(From the Report of the Registrar-General. )

The total number of deaths reziatered in Lon-
don, which in the previous week was 993, was in
the week that ended on Saturday, Oct. 17, 1,003,
of which 507 were deaths of males, 496 of females.
In the ten years 1847-57 the average number of
delths in the weeks corresponding With last week
was 1,019 ; but as the deaths of last week occurred
in an increased population, the average, to admit
of comparison, should be raised in proportion to
the increase, in which case it will become 1,118. It
is to be inferred that the metropolitan population
now enjoy good health, for the figiires show that

more than- a hundred persons survived last week,
whose names would hive been placed on the regis-
ters if then average rate of mortality had prevailed.
The births were very numerous last week, and
exceeded the deaths by 782.
The deaths from diarrhcea were 39, being nearly
the same as in the previous week. Of that number
25 occurred to children under two years of age.
Scarlatina has increased considerably ; it was fatal
in 52 and 49 cases in the last two weeks. Three
children died within nine days of scarlatina maligna
in a house iu Wilderness-row, Cierkenwell • in re-
ference to which cases the medical attendant ad-
verti t,) the bad condition of the house and its
neighbourhood, and to the fact that: one of the
dead bodies was retained for seven days amnng the
living. Four children died of the same disease in

'he south sub-di,trict of Chelsea ; two of these in
a family in Beaufort-terrace West. Two deaths
occur, ed from small-pox in Wellesley street, So-
mers-town; in one of the cases a woman of 27 years
was the suffere•s.

Four d aths from cholera and choleraic diarrhoea
-vverLt registered last week. In Bethnal-green, one
girl, aged 4i years, and one boy, aged 6_years, died
A 17, Cranbt ook-street, of choleraic diarrhoea ; and
one girl, aged 2, died of cholera infantum at 2,
Sweet Apple-square, on the 10th October. The son
of a brass-finisher, aged 14, died of " Asiatic cho-
lera" at 2, Peter-street, Bromley, after an illness of
20 hour,. He worked in a factory on the banks of
the Thames. "He was perfectly we!l," Dr. Bain
reports, "on Thursday might, his father having
taken him to a tailor's for a new coat ; at 5 o'clock
on Fria ty morning he was seized with diarrhoea,
vonii;illg, great prosr %tion, darkness of the surface,
thirst, I.,tbs of voice." At 1 o'cl,,ck on S.tturday
morning the pc,o, boy died. Seven deaths by cho-
lera havealso been registered in the West Ham
district, which adjoins London, but is not within
the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Act.
Cases of diarrhoea and of cholera occur every
year in L- radon ; but the annexed ease, which was
published in a former table, appeared to bear an
epidemic character :--.

- " St. Olave, St. John—At Eforselydown, on board
the Luteken, on September 22, a seaman, aged 27
years, 'cholera AsiAtioa (19 hours).' Mr. Platt, the
registrar, says--. 4 T. e ship Lutcken arrived at
Horserydown, St. John's, on the afternoon of the
21:4 inst., from Hsrbnrg (Hanover); she bad
touched at Gluckstadt, and stopped there 26 hours,
at which place cholera raged lately, and carried off
5 per cent. of the inhabitants. Deceased had not
been ashore at Florselydown.'"

An immense commerce is carried on between Eng.
land and Hamburg on the Elbe in vessels which are
in a very unsatisfactory sanitary condition, the
berths of the steamers conveying passengers being
at times saturated by the steam of water-closets.
The condition of the ordinary vessels maybe easily
imagined. To avoid the delays of quarantine, all
steamers should undergo sanitary inspection, and
t he sailing vessels in the river should be thoroughly
eleanied. They should get pure water, and they
would not then form a bridge over which epidemics
can march from Hamburg to London.
Dr. R. D. Thomson has repeated his analysis of
the water supplied by the Southwark Company.
On October 14th a gallon of it contained only 17.6
grs. of extraneous matter. On Octoher 15th, the
total impurity in the pump-well of Abbey-row,
West Ham, amounted to 56-16 gra. in a gallon,
comprising 4.40 gra. of organic) matter.
All the London waters should be analpsed weekly
under present circumstances, for the protection of
the public.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
barometrical reading in ,he weok was 29.915 in.; on
two days the mean reading was above 30in. The
mean temperature of the week was 55.2 deg., which
is 4.9 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean
daily temperature was above the average through-
out the week. The highest reading of the thermo-
meter in the shade occurred on Monday, and was
67.7 deg. ; the lowest was 42.3-deg., and occurred
on Wednesday. The range of the week was there-
fore 25.4 deg. The mean due point temperature
was 53.3 ; and the difference between this and the
mean temperature of the air was only 1.9 deg. Tho
amount of rain was 0.19 in., all of which fell on
Sunday the 11th.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 17.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses 93
Diseases of the Heart and Blood•vessels
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
_

240
46
171

Respiration v _
183
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c..
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ......
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations .... 2
Premature Birth and Debility .. 30
Atrophy ...................................................... 27
Old Age
5udden........................................................ 7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance.,...... 34
Causes not specified

MUMS MN ALL CAUSTA ............ ......... 1,003
Population Deaths in corn- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1856. Week.
West Districts' ...... 376,427
....., 156
North Districts ...... 490,396
Central Districts..... 393,256
East Districts ........ 485,522
•;nuth Districts - 251 ***—* 247

Totals .

2,362,236

1,003

Males
Fsmales..