The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-01 00:00:00

BIRTHS.

135,481 births were registered in the quarter
which ended on December 31, 1849. The births
in the corresponding quarters of 1845 8 were
131,219, 139,349, 127,267, 133,204. So that the
proportion of births to the population is 3.022 per
cent. in 1849, or greater than in the correspond-
ing quarters of 1847-8 ; it is less than iu the De•
cember quarters of 1843-6. The births in the year
1849 were 578,087, which is the greatest number
ever returned in one year. The number of births in
1846 was 572,625, in 1847 only 539,965, and in 1848,
563,205. The estimated proportions to the population in
the six years 1844-9, were 3.263, 3.236, 3.364, 3.181,
3.223, and 3.264 per cent. The latter proportion
is equal to 1 in 31 (or 30.64) of the population ; 1
in 15.67 of the female population i • and 1 in 7.33 of
the woman at the ages 15-45. Tne number of per-
sons of the ages 15 and under 45 in the country was
the England; fi e rrnie against
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on July 2, 1849, not more than 3,955,299 men, and
4,238,481 women, showing an excess of 283,189
women of the at agebett 15-45
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of the year, have to be placed.
The births, in the metropolitan districts of Surrey,
in Liverpool, and in Hull, where cholera was so fatal
in the summer quarter, were fewer in the December
quarter of 1849, than in the corresponding quarter of
1848.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS. -MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.

Tue births registered in the last quarter of 1849
Isere 135,481, the deaths 97,688 ; so that the natural
increase of which there is a record was 37,793. But
46,136 persons emigrated in the quarter from 11
ports at which there are Government officers, and
41,845 of the number left the three English ports of
Liverpool, London, and Plymouth.* All the births
in England are not registered, the emigrants of
lieglish birth are not distinguished, no account is
taken of the immigrants into England, and
S.:otland and Ireland still remain almost the
only parts of the civilized world in which the births
and deaths are unregistered, so that the accurate
statement, which might otherwise by proper arrange-
ments be so easily made of the movement of the
population of the United Kingdom, is impossible.
The excess of births over deaths in the year was
578,087-441,458=136,629.
STATE OP TIIE PUBLIC HEALTH.
The deaths in the last quarters of the five years
1845-6-7-8-9, were 80,681, 108,937, 103,479,
92,447, 97,775. The rate of mortality in the quarter
was 2'lBl per cent. ; slightly in excess of the average
rite (2.165) of the 12 December quarters 1838-49.
The lowest rate of mortality (1.898) was experienced
in the December quarter, 1845—the highest (2529)
in the corresponding quarter of 1846.
of the 10 byo
If we take the complete years—the deaths re-
gistered in the five years 1845-6-7-8-9, were 349,366,
390,315, 423,304, 400,060, 441,458. The deaths in
1849 exceeded the deaths in
cmortality
f the 12 years 1838-49,
years 92,92.
1838-47
wasaverage a2g.The
a2el3 annual
per
2-243. The annual mortality was lowest (2.080 per
cent., or lin 48) in the year 1845 ; hig -
hest (2.493,
or lin 40) in the year 1849. The high rate of mor
tality set in with an epidemic of what was called
diarrhosa and English cholera in the
summer of 1846;
it was succeeded by influenza at the close of 1847 and
the beginning of 1848; the Asiatic form of cholera
first distinctly showed itself in October, 1848, and
raged in many places with great violence in the
months of July, August, September, and a part of
October, 1849, when it generally subsided.
The returns of the other States of Europe are still
so much in arrear that there are no means of com-
paring them with those of England, but it is worthy
of remark that the mortality of England in 1849,
when cholera was epidemic, scarcely exceeded the
mortality of France and Sweden in ordinary years,
en 1 was much less than the ordinary mortality of
Saxony, Prussia, Italy, luatria, and Russia.
I. LONDON.—The deaths in London from specified
causes were 12,818 ; of which 3,227 were by diseases
of the zymotic class, 2,035 tubercular, and 2,133 by
pulmonary disease. Of the deaths 494 were by cholera,;
482 by diarrhcea. All except about 20 of the deaths
from cholera occurred in October. 99 deaths from
small-pox, 338 from measles, 486 from scarlatina,
and 273 from hooping-cough, were registered ;
the numbers are below the average. Metria, erysi-
pelas, and syphilis, were less than usually fatal. The
deaths of the mothers in and after childbirth, were
116, or one death of the mother to 1,168 children
born ; a small proportion, not so low, perhaps, as it
should be, but much lower than it has been at the,
same season in London, or, perhaps, in any other city.
We death from hydrophobia was registered in the
December quarter, 1845 ; none since. The registrar
of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Charing-cross, remaks
Cholera has disappeared, but there is an extensive
field for improvement in the dwellings of the poor,
as well as in the drainage ; and a supply of water
in a state fit to drink, instead of the disgusting fluid
now so highly charged fir, is loudly demanded.'
ir. SOUTII-E ASTERN DIVISION. Measles and
scarlatina prevailed in some of the parishes of Epsom ;
typhus and influenza in Guildford ; at Farnham,
Dorking, and the other districts of Surrey, the mor-
tality was below the average. The registrar of
Friinley only registered six deaths. " Tais is lower,"
he says, " than I ever remember it to have been.
Owing to the alarm of the cholera, the people in this
district have been more guarded in their manner of
living ; and in consequence of the low price of almost
every article of food and clothing, the condition of
the labourer is considerably improved within the last
six months."

The general mortality in Kent, Sussex, and Hamp-
shire is lower than it was in 1848 ; yet small-pox,
scarlatina, and measles prevailed in many districts.
In Abingdon, Bradfield, Reading, EAsthatripstead,
and Windsor (Berkshire) the mortality was in excess.
Scarlatina and small-pox prevailed in Reading ;
measles, hooping-cough, and small-pox in Windsor,
where 23 deaths from cholera were registered—the
last on October 31.

111. SOUTH MIDLAND DIVISION.—The mortality
was lower than in 1848 in Middlesex and Bucking-
hamshire, slightly higher in Oxfordshire, Northamp-
tonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, and Cam-
bridgeshire. 'There was an excess in Hitchin from
cholera and typhus; in Great Marlow, High Wycombe,
from cholera, measles, and typhus. " The cases of

V. SOUTH-WESTERN DIVISION.—The mortality in
1.849 was" generally lower in Wilts, and higher iu
Dinetibire,..Devonahire, 'Cornwall, and Somerset7s
,shire,,thlin it was-la the corresponding quarter'sOf
1848. Scnall-pox prevailed in many districts where
vaccination had been neglected. Scarlatina prevailed
in Heavitree, where is "great destitution among the
labouring population from want of labour." There were
2 deaths from cholera in St. Sid well, 13 in St. David,
Exeter (the last on Oct. 30) ; and 18 from dysentery,
in the Exeter workhouse. After the choli ra of the
summer had extended over England—and smitten
many thousands of the population in all unhealthy
places—partial outbreaks followed in autumn, like
the distant peals of thunder after a hurricane. The
epidemic lingered in parts of Devon, Cornwall, and
Somersetshire, and broke out fatally in Taunton
workhouse and in Bridgwater. The deaths in Bridg-
water from all causes were 318 ; which is nearly at
the rate of 4 per cent. per annum of the population.
Cholera prevailed in Plymouth through October ;
fever in Bath.
VI. WEST MIDLAND DIVISION...-..The mortality
was lower than the average in Gloucestershire, Here-
fordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire; higher
than the average in Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
Scarlatina was rife in parts of Shropshire and War-
wickshire. Several cases of cholera were fatal over
Staffordshire. The deaths in Birmingham were
1,036, in Coventry 349, in Worcester 143, Stafford
115, Shrewsbury 122.
VII. NORTH MIDLAND DIVISION.—The mortality
in Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, and Nottinghamshire
was above, of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire below
the average of the season. The mortality was below
the average in Lincoln and Nottingham. The mor-
tality was the average in the Basford district, where
were several cases of cholera as well as in Newark.
VIII. NORTH-WESTERN DIVISION.--The morta-
lity in Cheshire and Lancashire is considerably
below the average. Scattered cases of cholera oc-
curred over the counties—chiefly in October. The
deaths in Liverpool and West Derby were 2,681, in
Manchester and Salford 2,415. The registrar of
Howard-street, Liverpool, says the sub-district is
depopulated one-half from various causes ; no deaths
from cholera occurred in the Manchester workhouse,
containing 1,300 inmates.
IX. Yoax DIVISION.—The mortality was above
the average in the West Riding; below the average
in the East and North Ridings. Cholera broke out
in Knaresborough with some severity, and doubled
the deaths in the sub.district. The epidemic cholera
was fatal in Leeds in October. Bradford and other
districts suffered more or less from the disease. Shef-
field was comparatively healthy. Hull suffered hea-
vily from cholera in the summer, and lost some in-
habitants in October, but the last two months
of the year were healthy. In Rillington only four
out of 4,000 inhabitants died from any cause in the
three montk,.

X. NORTHERN DiVISION.—The mortality of Dur-
ham end Northumberland was above, of Cumber-
land about, of Westmoreland below, the average.
The cholera epidemic terminated in many of the dis-
tricts of Durham at the beginning of the quarter;
the epidemic broke out at I3odlington in November,
and killed on the hill-side 26 people in a short time.
There is a want of drainage. Cholera also raged in
Alnwick.

XI. WELSH DIVISION.—The mortality was some-
what above the average in Wales; chiefly from
cholera and scarlatina. In Merthyr-Tydfil the scene
of the great tragedy in summer, the deaths were 470.
* Return by Emigration Commissioners.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Business was so extremely flat that it is only neces-
sary to re"er to a marked improvement in Cheerful for
the Metropolitan Handicap, the effect of some large
investments in the course of Tuesday and Wednesday at
the sporting houses; with this exception, the quotations
will be found to agree pretty closely with Monday's:—
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
15 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John
30 to 1 agst Lord Sefton na Little Fanny—taken
40 to 1 apt Sir Ai thur—taken
THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
9 to 1 agst Mr. H. Hill's Osterley—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Bumby's Velox—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Cheerful—taken
Harrioit was not mentioned.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.

8 to 1 agat Mr. Gratwicke's Cheerful—take 9 to 1
20 to 1 agst Mr. Hall's Ada Mary
25 to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Dough—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Testator
1,000 to 30 agst Mr. C. Peck's Melody—taken
CHESTER CUP.
18 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann—take 25 to 1
22 to 1 agat Mr. St. George's Whim colt—take
25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Lord Howth'a Peep-o'-day Boy—taken
to 2001.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldestou's Fugloman—taken
to 100/.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Roland—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack-30 to 1 taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Chantrey—tike 40 to 1
40 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Harriott
50 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Woodlark—t to 100/.
1,000 to 15 aget Mr. Bowes's The Knout—taken several
times
1,000 to 35 agst Mr. Lucas's Sunnyside—taken several
times
2.000 even on Peep-o'-day Boy agst Cossack.
400 even on Whim colt agst Cossack
The following were struck out at Chester up to Wed-
nesday night:—Lambswool, Ada Mary, Reception,
Arab. Chorister, Lady Hylda, Jack Briggs, St. Valen-
tine, Deception, Maid of Team Valley. John Scott is
not expected to leave in more than two.

DERBY, 1850.
7 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum
10 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—take
11 to 1
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel—take
11 to 1
16 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltteur
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger—taken
22 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher—taken
,000 to 35 agst Lord Eglintou's Mayors—taken
,000 to 25 agst Mr. Gannon's Deicoon—taken
,000 to 15 agst Mr. Lay's Charley (Hind colt)—taken
500 to 100 agst Bolingbroke and Knight of Avenel—t
Deicoon has again become the property of Mr. Gannon.