The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-09 00:00:00

MORT.

The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
3d of August, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:— _

Weekly
Total. Average of
Five years.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 277 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat 9B 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 169 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels • 24 21
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 5 6
I)iseases of the Skin, &c
Old Age, or Natural Decay 5l 71
By 'Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified 1009 942
Deaths from all Causes 1014 946
DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDE-ft

TILE ABOVE HEADS.
Weekly Averart
Total. of rive Years.
Consumption ........ ...... 145 147
Scarlatina .......... .: . . ....h... 65 34
Pneumonia ............ .. 54 79
Dropsy ..... ..
Irooping Cough .... ....... .. .. 13 33
Typhus 33 31
Small Pox
Disease of the Heart
Measles
Apoplexy
Diseases of the Brain ......
Diarrhoea..
Sudden Deaths

1/.11,1,1.
West 147 138
North 202 171
Central
East . 204 207
South 241 242

Total ... ...... . ...... .....1014

SCOTCH MEDICAL DEGREES.

The attention of the Senatus Academicus of the
University of Edinburgh has lately been directed, to
various cases of the fraudulent assumption of their
medical honours by persons who either hive never
become graduates at all, or who have obtained
diplomas from academical bodies not very scrupulous,
and not even possessing the means of imparting a
medical education. Regarding the false assumption
of their degree not only as criminal in itself, but as
calculated to lower the estimation in which Doctors
of Medicine of this University have long been held,
the Senatus Academicus have resolved to employ the
most effectual means of defeating all attempts to
practise this discreditable imposition. And, as an
example of the consequences to be expected from such
attempts, it has been thought proper to publish the
following case :
In 1838, a person named George Haslewood, wish-
ing to establish himself as a physician at Pau, in the
Basses Pyrenees, and pretending to have had the
degree of M.D. conferred on him by the University
of Edinburgh, obtained the requisite license from the
Minister of Public Instruction at Paris; but as suspi-
cions were excited at Pau with regard to the truth of
his representation, an inquiry on the subject was
addressed to the Secretary of this University. The
answer to the Secretary, being in the negative, was
communicated to the Minister of Public Instruction,
who, after ordering an investigation, was at first de-
ceived by an unfounded assurance, that diplomas
could be purchased at Edinburgh without even the
personal attendance of the candidates, and that the
diploma in question had been procured on the pay-
ment of a large sum of money to a practitioner
then at Pau, who was about to retire, and who has
since died. The Senatus, on being informed of this
audacious and scandalous defence, transmitted to her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs a narrative of the case, accompanied by a re-
quest that his Lordship would communicate the parti-
culars to the British Ambassador at Paris, that the
French Government might be made fully aware of
the facts. In consequence of this application, official
information has now been received, that the Ambas-
sador had transmitted to the French Government the
representation of the Senatus, and had subsequently
' ascertained that Mr. Haslewood had surrendered the
license which had been previously granted to him,
and was about to leave Pau.
The Senatus Academicus may probably find it ne-
cessary to expose some other instances of similar de-
ceptions which have recently been reported to them.
In the meantime they take this opportunity of stating,
that during the whole period of the existence of the
Medical School in this University, the Senatus had
never once conferred the degree of M.D. except on
candidates, who after producing satisfactory evidence
of having completed a regular course of study in all
the branches of medicine, either here or in other Uni-
versities, have submitted to strict and careful exami-
nations by the members of the Medical Faculty, and
have, in presence of the assembled Senatus, sub-
scribed the Sponsis Academica, solemnly binding
them to uphold the honour of the University, by the
faithful observance of its rules, and by the pure and
correct exercise of their profosvional dutiog.
Edinburgh College, Aug. 1, 1844.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
SAFETY BEACON ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.
" Admiralty, August 7,1844.
" Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of
the Committee for managing the affairs :of Lloyd's, that
Captain Bullock is about to replace the safety beacon on
the Goodwin Sands.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) " SIDNEY HERBERT.
" W. Dobson, Esq.' Secretary, Lloyd's."
LOSS OF THE MARSHAL BLUCHER.
A letter received at Lloyd's, from the Foreign-office,
confirms the loss of the British cutter Marshal Blucher,
of Plymouth, the particulars of which were reported
sometime Since.