The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-02 00:00:00

HEALTH .OF LONDov DURING THE
WEEK.

(From, the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The total number of deaths registered in London in the
week that ended on Saturday was 1,248. In the 1@ years
1847-56 the average number of deaths in the weeks corre-
sponding with last week was 1,318. But the deaths of last
week occurred in an increased population, and to admit of
comparison the average just given should be raised in pro-
portion to the increase, and in this case it will become
1,450. The number now returned is less by 202 than the
corrected average.
The births registered last week exceed the deaths by 689.
The increase, not very groat, in the return of deaths re-
gistered last week over those of some previous weeks, is
not due to a higher rate of mortality, but to more than the
just weekly proportion of deaths returned by coroners being
placed on the registers, which is a usual occurrence at the
end of a quarter.
Fatal cases of the diseases which form the zymotic class
exhibit a decrease from 197 in the preceding to 187 last
week. The corrected average for corresponding weeks
is 251. Hooping-cough, as usually happens at this period
of the year, is the most fatal of this description of
diseases, and numbers 60, the average being 63. Measles,
to which 20 cases are referred, is also about the average;
while scarlatina, which caused 20 deaths, typhus, and com-
mon fever, which caused 31, and smallpox, which was only
fatal to three children, are all decidedly below the average.
No deaths from smallpox occurred in the Western, East-
ern, or Southern districts. Taking all the five zymotic
diseases which have now been specified together, only four
deaths from them occurred in East and West London and
the city ; none in the Strand district or in St. George-in-
the-East ; only one in St. Saviour, Southwark ; none in St.
Olave ; two in Wandsworth; one in Lewisham. It does
not appear, however, that the weather has lately been very
favourable to persons subject to bronchial affections ; 164
persons died in the previous week from bronchitis, and 160
last week, the average being 125. The mean weekly tem-
perature, which in the second week of March fell to 37.2
deg., and rose in the subsequent week to 45.1 deg., fell
again last week to 39.6 deg. On the 18th the temperature
was 11 deg. above the average; on the 22d it was 9 deg. be
low it.

Three persons who had attained the age of 90 years or
upwards are racorded in this return. The oldest is a
gentleman who died at Bow, at the age of 95 years.
Last week the births of 990 boys and 947 girls—in all
1,937 children—were registered in London. In the 10
corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 the average
number was 1,700.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29'625 in. The highest
reading in the week occurred on Friday, and was 29'90 in.
The mean temperature of the week was 39.6 deg., which is
2'5 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years.
The mean daily temperature was below the average on the
seven days from the 21st to the 27th inclu ive. The highest
temperature occurred on Saturday, and was 54 deg.; the
lowest occurred on Sunday (the 22d) and was 27.7 deg. The
range of the week was therefore 26'3 deg. The thermo-
meter fell on four nights below freeziug point. The mean
dew point temperature was 34'3 deg., and the difference
between this and the mean temperature of the air was
5'3 deg. On Sunday the wind was in the north-west;
afterwards its direction was for the most part south-west
and south-east. The air was latterly calm. There was
hardly any rain. Some snow fell on the first two days.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL OAITSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 28.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 63
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 278
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c .. 11
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ...... —. 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c. .. 4
Malformations _. 8
Premature Birth and Debility 25
Atrophy .. 26
Old Age
sudden __. 29
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 79
Causes not specified

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES 1,248
Population Deaths in cone- Deal X
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1856. Wee"...
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males 630
Females 6lB
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females..

990
947

T0ta1...._ • • SA. 0.41 1,937

Country Markets.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET.
MARCZ 31.
Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large.
Oat straw, from 7s Oci to lOs Od per kemple of t 6 stones
Iron; wheat do., 6s Od to 8s 6d; barley do., 6s Od. to 8e 'r
Od. Hay from is to ls. 3d.

EDINBURGH MEAL—Megan 31.
There were in the market to-day 14 sacks oatmeal, each
weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 37s and —s.

DALKEITH MEAL NIA.RKET—MAncs 30.
There were in the market to-day 21bags of oatmeal, oof
barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull.
Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third.
imperial
Barleymeal, per ditto -a Oct —s Od —a Ca
Peasemeal, per ditto
Flour, new, per ditto —s Od —s Oct —s Od
Pot-barley, new, per ditto- —s Od —s Od —s Od

GOAL MARIE
Prices of Coals per ton at

T.—Aram 1.
the close of the market.

a. d.i
Tanfield Moor Butes 13 91
Wallsend, Am

Wsllsend, ko.

Evenwood 15 6
Riddell l7 0 Gosforth l7 0
Cwm Garnant 24 0 ifiensher 17 6
Hassell l9 01
Ships at market

;, 23; sold, 22.