The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

ILEALT.H OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The total number of deaths registered in London
in the week that ended on Saturday, Sep.t. 26, is
1,002, and exhibits an increase on that of the.pre-
vious week, which was 946. In the 10 years 1847-
56 the average number of deaths in the weeks cor-
responding with last week was 1,239. But the
deaths of last week occurred in an increased popu-
lation, and if for the purpose of comparison theatve-
rage is raised in proportion to the increase, it will
become 1,363. The difference between tne deaths
now returned and the corrected average is '361,
which, though it arises in part from the higla rate of
mortality at two periods when cholera was epidemic
is to be attributed in a much greater degree to the
improved state of health which London enjoys at
the present time, and to that reduction of the mor.
tality which is its necessary result.
Under the influence of a falling temperature the
mortality from diarrhoea is now fast subsiding to
its ordinary weekly amount. In the two previous
weeks the deaths from it were 144 and 111 -; last
week they were 83. Its rise and fall have bean ex-
tended over a period of 13 weeks ; and in that time
the mean weekly temperature has declined from 68
deg. to 59 deg. In addition to the 83 deaths from.
diarrhoea, dysentery was fatal to 7 persrins, and
cholera to 3 persons (all the latter being adults).
Amongst the cholera cases a seaman is reported,
who died at Horselydown of " cholera Asiatica,"
after 19 hours' illness' on board of a ship Which in
its voyage to London had touched for nearly a day
at Gluckstadt (on the Elbe, 30 miles below Ham-
burg), where the disease has lately prevailed. Next
to diarrhoea, the most fatal in the zymotiC"class of
diseases is typhus (with common fever), which car-
ried off 52 persons ; then scarlatina, of which 34
children died ; 4 of these in Belgrave sub-district,
and 4 in Mile end Old Town Upper. Thirteen chil-
dren died of inanition and want of breast-milk ; 2
persons of intemperance ; 5 widows had attained
the age of 90 years and upwards, viz., 3 who were
90 years old, one 93, and one who died ntar Tot-
tenham-court-road, at the age of 94 years.
Last week the births of 886 boys and 820 girls,
in all 1,706 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-5 G
the average number was 1,524.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.935 in.
On the first three days the mean daily reading was
above 30 in. The highest barometrical pressure
occurred on Sunday (the 20th), and was 30.24 in.
The mean temperature of the week was 59'1 deg.,
which is 3.9 deg. aboue the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.)
The mean daily temperature was above the average
throughout, except on Monday. The highest tem-
perature in the shade cccurred on Thursday, and
was 73.6 deg. ; the lowest occurred on Monday,
and was 41.5 deg. The entire thermonaetrical
range of the week w s therefore 321 deg. The
mean dew-point temperature was 53 deg., and the
difference between this and the mean air tempera-
ture was 5.7 deg. The wind was generally in the
north-east till Tuesday afternoon, it then changed
to south-east, and on the last two days was for the
most part in the south west. Rain fell to the
depth of 046 in., of which 0.28 in. fell on Friday.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TuEsIAY MOR]SING.
•
THE IRISH SEPOYS.

The provincial Sepoys are at their dirty work
again. Accounts from Cork state that on Satur-
day night copies of a printed address, headed
"What news?" were widely distributed in several
parts of the town by • 133ing ingeniously thrust
under the doorA, and so forth. As the Reporter
observes, this fal-ie and shameless document has
received its insp:ration from the metropolitan
organ of the Eastern savages—the journal to which.
"is due the credit of glossing OVfir the fiendish
atrocities of Nana Sahib." Tile dastardly placard
is worded as follows