The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Weekly Return of the Registrar-General.)
In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths regis-
tered in the metropolitan districts were 794—a number
which shows that the diminished rate of mortality con-
tinues, and which, taking the corresponding weeks
of ten previous years is less than in the
week of any year since 1842. The average of
the ten weeks is 877, or, augmented in the ratio of in-
creased population, 957, compared with which the de-
crease of last week amounts to 163. The whole number
of deaths recorded as caused by the zymotic or epi-
demic class of diseases is 159, whereas in the same
week of last year they rose to 393, and the corrected
average of ten corresponding weeks is 227. To take
particular epidemics:—small-pox carried off 6 per-
sons, the half of whom were children ; measles was
fatal in 17 cases; scarlatina in 20; hooping-cough in
23, all of these exhibiting a mortality of less than the
usual amount. Typhus, of which 35 persons died,
shows the ordinary amount of mortality; but it is much
less fatal than in the same weeks of 1847-9. On the
other hand, diarrhoea continues to increase, as is
usual at this period of the year, but its progress
is not remarkable; in the last four weeks the deaths
from it, for the moat part amon; children, have
been 17, 18, 33, and (last week) 40. The average
is 27. A case of English cholera is thus recorded:—
On the 4th of July, at 3, Pembroke-place, Upper
Marsh, Lambeth, a boy of seven years, the son of an
engineer, died of " English cholera (14 hours), dropsy
(9 days), effusion into the pleura (12 hours)." Exclusive
of consumption, the deaths from diseases of the respira-
tory organs were only 70, which is less than in any cor-
responding week of 1840-9, having ranged from
76 to 96. Friqn consumption there were 121,
whereas they fluctuated in the ten corresponding
weeks from 116 to 152. On the 3d of July, a
greengrocer's assistant, aged 18 years, died in St.
Ueorge's Hospital, to which he had been brought from
Kensington, of "chorea (9 days), softening of spinal
cord," post mortem. In the sub-district of Saffron-hill,
a skin-dresser, aged 43, died from "diffuse inflamma-
tion of cellular membrane of chest and neck from the
absorption of some animal poison (3 days)." A man
and a woman died from intemperance.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED LW
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 6, IMO.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... •159
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 38
Tubercular Diseases ... 168
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 112
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 38
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... 70
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion... ... ... 57
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 10
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations... ... ... 3
Premature Birth ... ...

Atrophy- .•• ..• ... 25
Old Age ••• ..• ... 30
Sudden ... ••, ••• ••• ••• 7
•••

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 25
Causes not spcclfied 3

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in cone-
Enumerated, apondinz week
1841. of 1849.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 130
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 196 „,

794
Deaths
in the
Week.
136
146
119
166
227

Central Districts 374,199
East Districts ... 393,067
South Districts.. 503,346

183
194
367

-
Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,070 ...

Males

794

••• ••• ••• ••• 406 ...

Females ...

... 388

come in for their usual purchases. The throwing trade
is much as before; a little more inquiry for some de-
scriptions has arisen the last few dais. The dyers are
better employed again. The raw silk market is charac-
terised by great firmness, and some considerable business
was transacted during last we« k.

HuDDERSFIELD, TIIESDAY.—The improvement we
had the pleasure of reporting last week has been pretty
steadily maintained during the week. The market has
not been perhaps quite so lively to-day, although there
were a good many buyers. The price of wool has been
advancing.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There is no noticeable change
in the aspect of our Piece Hall to-day, the chief in-
quiry being still, as before remarked, for low lastings.
Those of a finer quality are scarcely looked at.
The yarn trade is brisk; and the quotations have under-
gone a farther improvement. There is a large stock of
wool in the market, as the dealers are buying largely;
but the spinners are indisposed to give the advance
which they are asking, and consequently not much is
going into the hands of the eonsumers.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Since our last report the market
has been well attended, and the cloth trade in general
still continues active. Stocks are very low in the makers'
hands, the clothiers being very busy with orders for the
merchants. There is a lair average business doing in
the warehouses.