The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-23 00:00:00

1857

_HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From-the Report of the Registrar-General.)
After the summer heat, and when the conditions
that attend it, and that are so fatal to children, are
to some extent removed, London begins to enjoy a
period of health in which the mortality is usually
lowerthan at any other time of the year except the
months of May and June. In conformity with this
rule the deaths, which were previously above 1,000,
and in July rose above 1,200, fell in the week that
ended on Saturday (Sept. 19), to 946. It is further
to be observed that, though diarrhoea. continues ta
exhibit more than its ordinary degree of prevalence,
the health of the population generally appears to be
batter than it usually is in the third week of Sep-
tember, for, if the weekly deaths from cholera at
two epidemic seasons be withdrawn from the calcu-
lation, it will be found that nearly 200 persons sur-
vived last week, who should have died if the ave-
rage rate of mortality, as derived from correspond-
ing weeks in 10 previous years, had prevailed.
The number of children born last week exceeded
that of persons of all ages who died by 776.
The fatal cases of diarrhoea now decline more
rapidly, as will be seen from the numbers returned
during the last five weeks, which were :-215, 198,
181, 144, and, last week, 111. Only three deaths,
two of which were those of children, are referred
to cholera ; eight to dysentery. Smallpox was fatal
to only two children ; measles to 19, of whom 13
died in the central and east districts ; scarlatina to
39, of whom 26 died in the same districts. The
deaths from typhus and common fever are 53.
Nineteen persons died of cancer, six of hernia, two
of diabetes, 10 women from diseases incidental to
childbeariug, one of whom, a young woman of 18,
died from puerperal convulsions, in consequence of
excessive joy ; a girl of two years died from mumps,
a housepainter from painter's colic, a girl who had
lived ten years with spina'-bifida, one person from
carbuncle, three from delirium tremens, one from
intemperance. Two widows died at the ages respec-
tively of 91 and 92 years, the oldest parsons in the
return of the week.

Last week the births of 883 boys and 839 girls,
in all 1,722 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks in the years 1847-
56 the average number was 1,446.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.041 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on the
last five days. The greatest barometric pressure
was 30.24 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature
of the week was 621 deg., which is 5.6 deg. above
the average of the same week in 43 years, as deter-
mined by Mr. Glaisher. The mean temperature
was above the average on every day of the week,
and on Wednesday and Thursday the excess was
about 10 dog. On the latter day the highest point
of the thermometer in the shade was attained--
viz., 80/ deg. ; the lowest point was 48.9 deg.,
and was obtained on Saturday. The whole range
of the week was therefore 31.8 deg: The mean
dew point temperature was 57.9 deg., and the
difference between this and the mean air tempera-
ture was 4.2 deg. On Thursday the thermo-
meter in the sun rose to 104.8 deg. The wind was
nearly always in the south-west till Fziday after-
noon, when it changed to north-east. There was
rain to the depth of 0.25 in. on Monday ; none on
any other day.

, MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM AI .L CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 19
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses 9l
Diseases of the Heart and Mood-vessels 2O
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
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 _ 8
Premature Birth and Debility 26
Atrophy • 5O
Old Age
Sudden 4
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ' 27
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre-
Enumerated. Bponding week

946
Deaths
in the

1851. - of 18.56. Week
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females..

Total - • 1,722

From the London Gazette of Last Night

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 22.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
•f a Despatch from her Majesty's Acting Consul at Madrid,
enclosing copies of Spanish Royal Orders altering, as fol-
lows, the duties upon the importation into Spain of pota-
toes and sago, starch, sago in grain, of No. 1126, and In-
dia-robber cloths :

• Per quintal.
Reals. c.
Potato and sago starch . l2 25
Sago in grain, of No. 1,126, imported under
foreign flag .
Do., imported under national flag 2 10
Indian Rubber cloths of silk, wool, or cotton, imported
under foreign flag,- 43 per, cent, ad val.
Do., imparted under national flag, 40 per cent. ad val.
COMMISSION SIGNED BT THE QUEEN.
2d Royal Lanark Militia—Lieutenant John Akin Dyer,
from the sth Royal Elthorne Militia, to be Paymaster.

Q )51MISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS

Stewartry of Kirkcudbright—Erskine Douglas Sandford,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
The GallowAy Rifles—The Hon. Charles Murray Hey
Forbes, late Lieutenant of the 95th Regiment, to be Cap-
tain, vice Barry, resigned.
sth, or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia —The Commission of Ensign denims is
cancelled from the Bth September instant.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
IRELAND--WEST COAST.
Arran Islands' Lights.

The port of Dublin Corporation hereby give notice that
two new lighthouses have been erected on the Arran
Islands, off the west coast of the county of Galway, from
which ights Rill be exhibited during the night of the let
of December, 1857, and thenceforth will be lighted every
night from sunset to sunrise.
Specification given of the position and appearance of the
Lights, by Mr. Halpin, Superintendent of Lighthouses.

Arran Islands North Lighthouse is built on Rock Island,
the outermost of the chain, in lat. 53 deg. 8 min. 55 sec.
N. and long. 9 (leg. 51 min. 30 sec. west of Greenwich,
bearing from Slyne Head South Light, S. b E E., dis-
tant 20.3 nautical miles; from Skird Rocks, S. b E., dis-
tant 84 miles; from Loophead, N.E. by N., distant 36
miles.

This light will be a revolving light, of the natural ap-
pearance, giving a bright flash once in every three minutes,
and will be visible from seaward between the bearings of
W.N. W., round by the westward to N.W. by N. The
illuminating apparatus is catadioptric of the first order,
its food point 115 feet over the mean level of the sea, and
in clear weather the light should be visible at a distance of
16 • _ _ _

The tower is circular, of gray stone colour, 101 feet in
height from base to submit ; the top below the lantern sash
as ill be painted red, also two horizontal belts will be
coloured red, on the tower.
Arran Islands South Lighthouse is erected on the south-
western point of Inisheer, the most southern of the islands
in let. 5$ deg. 2 min. 40 sec. N., and long. 9 dog. 31 min.
30 sec. W., it bears f. °ln Blackhead, W. 6 S. distant 14-
miles : from Finnis Rock, (of S.E. point of Inisheer), W.
b N i N., distant 1.1 miles ; from Loophead, N.E. b E.
dial. ant 33 miles.

-This light will be a fixed light, visible from seaward
between the bearings of S.E. S , round by the southward
to W. by S. and having its focal plane 110 feet over the
mean level of the saa, should be seen in clear weather
within a distance of 15 miles. The illuminating apparatus
is catadiopttic of the first order. A strip or sector of red
l'ght will be shown in the direction of the Finnic Lock—
in all other directions the light will be of the natural ap.
earance.
The tower is circular, of gray stone colour below the
projecting gallery, and is 112' feet in height from its base
to the top of the dome.
From and after the date of exhibition of the new
lights, the old light heretofore on the summit of Inish-
more, or the Great Island, will be discontinued, and the
lantern and top of the old lighthouse tower will be re -
moved.
[Bearings are Magnetic, Vag.. (at the Arran Islands in
1857) 27 deg. W.] Ey order,

W. LEES, Secretary.
Ballast-office, Dublin, Aug. 27, 1857.

BANKRUPTS.
James Saunders, miller, Thurlton, to surrender, Oct. 2,
at eleven, and Nov. 4, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee;
Aldridge and Bromley, Gray'E-
inn ; Copewan and eons, Norfolk.
Henry Whittell, boot and shoemaker, LEamingtrn
Priors, Warwickshire, Oct. 0, at ten, and Oct. 22, at half-
past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court, Christie,
officialassi4nee, Birminghain ; Poole, 'Kenilworth ; Hodg-
son and Allen, Birmingham.:
William COnyer and Joie ph Conyer, shoddy dealers,
Dawsbury, Oct. 9 and 30, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Scholes and
Son, Dewsbury ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
David John Allen, draper, Carmarthen, Oct. 5, ai d
Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acrama.
official assignee, Bristol ; Sale, Worthington, and Still-
man, Manchester; Leman and Humphreys, Bristol.
Thomas Biaber Daniell, ii.mmonger' High-street, Pop-
lar, Oct. 2at half-past twelve,. and Oct. 27 at 0113, at the
Court of BaLkruptcy._ Lee, official assignee, Alderman-
burr ; Mcss; Moorgate-street.
Henry ;Arnold and Henry John Arnold, merchant,
Uttoseter, Staffordshire, Oct. 5 and 26, at half-past
twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee, Birmingham; Wolby and Flint, 'Ut-
tom° %or ; James, Birmingham.