The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-03 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The rate of mortality in London has been very
uniform during the last five weeks. In the week
that ended last Saturday the deaths registered were
1,236. The average number, as obtained from the
returns of the corresponding weeks of ten years
1851-60, and corrected for increase of population, i$
1,580, and the result of the comparison, namely. 'a
reduction in the week of 344 deaths below the
average, must be viewed with satisfaction.
In 1853 and 1860 the deaths in the last week of
March rose above 1,700, chiefly in consequence of
pulmonary complaints. The deaths now returned
are therefore about 500 less than they were in either
ololpula
f those weeks,
which,
though there
ther first of theperiods
mentioned, an increase
of population,
mentioned, must be considerable.

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high. The weekly average of this diseamt lately
has been 80; last week the number rose to 10t
The corrected average for corresponding weeks is
69. All the deaths except 13 occurred to children
under three years of age. The complaint appears
to prevail chiefly in the neighbourhood of the
Regent's Park, so many as eight deaths from it
being recorded in the sub-district that bears the
name of that locality. There were 13 fatal eases
of whooping-cough in the Greenwich and Rother-
hithe districts ; 4 in the sub-district of St. Paul
Hammersmith. It was last week as fatal as the
six following zymotic diseases combined—small-
pox, measles, scarlatina, diphtheria, typhus, mid.
diarrhoea.
Thirty deaths were registered from mcaslcc, a
number which does not exceed the average ; but
the fact that so large a proportion as 11 out of 30
was contributed by Kentish Town demands obser-
vation. Three occurred in the cast districts, and
not one in the large population on the :south side
or the river. Measles has been prevalent in Ken-
tish town for some time • 6 and 5 deaths respec-
tively were registered there in the two previous

weeks.
Of 24 deaths referred to typhus 7 were caused by
gastric fever. Glanders was fatal in two cases ;in
one to a veterinary surgeon, in the second to a
bone-chopper.
Last week the births of 1031 boys and 943 girls,
in all 1974 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeke of the years 1851-
60 the average number was 1881.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.526 in.
The readings rose to 29.81 in. on Monday, and fell
to 29.30 in. on Wednesday. The mean temper-
ature of the air in the week was 46.2
deg., which is 3.7 deg. above the average
of the same week in. 43 years (as determined by
Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was
above the average throughout the week. The
thermometer in the shade rose to its highest point,
61.8 deg., on Sunday, and fell to its lowest point,
36.5 deg., on Friday. The range of the week was
therefore 25.3 deg. The mean daily range was
16.8 deg. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 1.3 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 96,
complete saturation being represented by 100, which
point was closely approached on Monday, Tuesday,
and Thursday. The wind blew generally from the
south-west. The total amount of rain was 0.36
inches, most of which fell on Monday. The mean
temperature of the water of the Thames was 45.2
deg. The thermometer in the sun was so high
as
111 deg. on Sunday, 108,5 deg. on Tuesday, and
106 deg. on Good Friday.

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