The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-28 00:00:00

THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.

11 ustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Eagravin7s on Steel,
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
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TJIHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
11,_ the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
osalifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
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PART 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-product ive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
P.s.ax It. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by lieventeen Coloured
Engravings.
I'ART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger •f infection is obviated.
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PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and Its du-
ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
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HEALTH of LONDON during the WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Returns.)
In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths re-
gistered in the metropolitan districts were 1,026.
This return shows a further increase in the mortality,
for since it began to rise, the deaths during the two
previous weeks were in the first 875, and in the second
967. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1840 9, they fluctuated between 770 and 1,197, the
latter amount of mortality having occurred in the
twelfth week of 1845 ; the average of the ten weeks
corrected for increase of population is 1,071 ; the pre-
sent return is therefore only less than the average by
45. The only classes of disease in which an increase
on the average is remarkable are those which affect
respectively the organs of respiration, and the organs
of circulation. The only instances in which com-
plaints in the respiratory organs have been so fatal
as in last week, at this season of the year, occur in
1845 and 1847 ; from pneumonia there were 90
deaths (of which 71 were amongst children), the
corrected average is 85 ; from bronchitis there were
99 (of which more than two-thirds were among
adults), the corrected average is only 47. Both these
diseases show a considerable increase, when ;the
deaths are compared with the numbers returned in
the two previous weeks. This excess both on the
weeks immediately preceding, and on the correspond-
weeks of former years, is sufficiently explained by
the fact, that the mean temperature which last week
was only 37 8 deg., shows a great fall on each week
throughout the whole month of February, and the
half of March; and taking the corresponding weeks
of 1840-9, it appears that it never was so low as at
present, except in 1840 and 1845, and that in six of
those years it ranged from 40 to 49'7 deg. The
deaths from consumption last week were 135, a num-
ber less than the average. Amongst epidemics, small
pox, scarlatina, hooping cough, and typhus are not so
fatal as usual ; but measles, from which there were
23 deaths, and diarrhces, from which there were 20,
are above the average. A death from cholera is re-
corded in the following terms :—At 83, London-road,
St. George, Southwark, on the 16th of March, the
son of an ironmonger, at the age of 10 weeks, died
of infantile cholera, atter an illness of 20 hours. It
deserves to be mentioned that three deaths were re-
gistered in one week from chorea, though it is
not usual that more than double that number are
returned in a year. The following are the
particulars: —At 5, Charles-street, Hackney-
road, the son of a compositer, at the age of 8
years, died of " chorea, after an illness of three
weeks ;" at 25, York-street West, Ratcliffe, the son of
a painter (deceased), died, at the age of a year and
ten months, of " chorea ;" and at 1, James-street,
Lambeth, the son of a gass-packer (deceased), died,
at the age of 15 years, of " chorea, after an illness of
23 days. The three deaths occurred, one on the 15th
and two on the 16th of March. Children are returned
every week as accidentally suffocated in bed ; amongst
other deaths registered last week from this cause are
two, which occurred in one house. Two men and a
woman died from the intemperate use of strong drink.
Two men and six women died between 90 and 100
years of age. 111 persons died in workhouses, 54 in
hospitals, of whom 18 were in naval and military es-
tablishments, and 6 in lunatic asylums.
The mean daily reading of the barometer at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was above 30 in. on
Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; the
mean of the week was 29.971. The mean tempera-
ture (37.8 deg. as stated above) was lower than the
average of the same period in seven years, particu-
larly on Sunday, Monday, and Saturday, when it
was from 7 deg. to 11 deg. loss than the average of
these days.

FOREIGN GRAIN. The arrivals at the port of
London from abroad, on one day at the close of the past
week, included 44 vessels from the continental ports of
Central Europe, which were, with two exceptions, entirely
laden with grain of various kinds of foreign produce. These
numerous arrivals in one day included some from Hol-
land, the Hanseatic States, Denmark, Hanover, Belgium,
Sweden, Italy, Oldenburgb, and the Sublime Porte, a
large proportion of thew being from ilanover and lleawarli,