The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-03 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON _DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The deaths from all causes registered in London
in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,092.
The average number obtained from the returns of
corresponding weeks in 10 previous years 185160,
and corrected for increase of population, is 1,220 ;
and it appears that the deaths in last week were
less by 128 than they would have been if the aver-
age rate of mortality for the last week of June had
prevailed.
The deaths were to the births returned in the
same time in the proportion nearly of 3 to 5.
The total number of cases in which pulmonary
complaints, exclusive of phthisis, were fatal, was
115, while the corrected average for corresponding
weeks is 129. Zynootic diseases were fatal in 260
cases, against an average of 276. Of those there
were 75 of whooping-cough, lof small-pox, 20 of
measles, 27 of scarlatina, 16 of diphtheria, of which
last 4 occurred in the sub-district of Old-street, St.
Luke's. Ten children died from whooping-cough
in Lambeth ; 6 in Newington. Diarrhcea begins
to exhibit, but in a slight degree, the increase usual
in the warm months. In the preceding two weeks
it was returned in 17 and 26 cases, last week in 32.
The wife of a journeyman tailor, aged 25 years,
died at 75, Berwick-street, of cholera, after seven
hours' illness. The daughter of a journeyman
tailor, aged eight months, died at 2, Queen's Head •
lane, Islington, of " choleraic diarrhcea," after 15
hours' illness; and the daughter of a soldier, aged
six months, at 2, Violet-place, Newington, of
" English cholera." Two children of a carpenter
died at 17, White Hart-street, Kennington, of
" malignant sore throat," in a house the drainage of
which is reported by the medical attendant as im-
perfect.
Last week the births of 963 boys and 941 girls,
in all 1,904 children, were registered in London.
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1851-
60 the average number was 1,662.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.609 in.
The readings fell to '29.48 in. on Wednesday, and
rose to 29.74 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 60.1 deg, which is 0.7
deg below the average of the same week in 43 years
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The thermome-
ter in the shade fell to 47.7 deg on Thursday, and
ruse to 77 deg on the same day. The range of
temperature on that day, and also the extreme
range of the week was therefore 29'3 deg. The
mean daily range was 30 3 deg, The highest
temperature in the sun was 120 deg. on Satur-
day. The mean temperature of the water of the
Thames was 66 deg. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 6 deg. The mean degree of humidity in the air
was 82, complete saturation being represented by
100. The wind was in the south-west till Thurs-
day; on Saturday, when the mean dryness was 10.8
deg, the wind was in the north-west- and north.
Rain, more or less, was measured on every day
except FrEay, generally in small quantities; the
whole amount was 0.63 in. Thunder was heard on
Sunday, and also on Thursday, accompanied by
vivid lightning.

TIIE
COMET.. Last night the comet was visible
in the north-west horizon soon after nine o'clock, Not-
withstanding the cloudy state of the atmosphere, it could
be seen occasionally shining with great brilliancy and tra-
velling with great rapidity, so much so that it could be seen
with the naked eye,