The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-06 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK•

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The weekly return of the Registrar-General
states that the mortality of London has now con
siderably fallen, under the influence of approaching
summer. The weekly deaths which had ranged,
for a long period, almost invariably above 1,200,
declined in the week that ended last Saturday to
1,069. The average number as obtained from the
returns of correspon ding weeks of ten years 1851-60
and corrected. for increase of population, is 1,118 ;
and the deaths exhibited in the present return are
therefore less by 49 than they would have been if
the average rate of mortality had prevailed.
There was only one death from small-pox, besides
one from varicella. Twenty children, chiefly infants,
died of measles, 5 of which cases were in the sub-
district of St. Margaret, Westminster. There were
29 from scarlatina, and 18 from diphtheria. Not-
withstanding the improvement of the weather, the
mortality from whooping-cough continues high.
It was fatal to 94 children in the week, 6 of whom
died in the Ratcliff and Limehouse sub-districts ;
four in the Leather-market, Bermondsey ; eight in
Lambeth ; three in Rotherhithe. There were
five deaths from scarlatina in the Waterloo-road
sub-district, second part. Ten fatal cases of croup
are recorded; eight of syphilis. Two widows died
at the respective ages of 94 and 95 years; and a
market gardener at 5, Troy-town, Camberwell, died
of chronic bronchitis, at the age of 99 years. A
child died of porrigo larvalis ; two of eczema. A
man, aged 36 years, died of trismus opoisthotonos.
A lad, aged 16 years, was fatally burnt by an ex-
plosion of naphtha.
It may be useful to mention here that in tabulat-
ing the causes of death it is the practice when more
than one disease is recorded in the medical certi-
ficate to refer the death to the primary disease,
generally to the first in order of appearance, rather
than to those that are only secondary, or sympto-
matic in their character.

Last week the births of 972 boys and 987 girls,
in all 1,959 children were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-
CO the average number was 1,523.

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