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

THE SUN,

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, diarrhea). 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 most part among childree, have
been 17, 18, 33, and (last week) 40. The average
is 27. A case of English cholera is thus recorded:—
O❑ 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. From consumption there were 121,
whereas they fluctuated in the ten corresponding
weeks from 116 to 152. On the 31 of July, a
greengrocer's assistant, aged 18 years, died in St.
George'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 LN
THE WEEK ENDING SATUILDAY, JULY 6, 1950.
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, &a. •• ••• ••• 9
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &e. 8
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 10
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ...
Malformations... ... ... 3
Premature Birth ... •• ••• ••• 32

Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ..• 25
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 30
_ _

Sudden ... ... ..• ... ••• ••• ••• 7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 25
Causes not specified ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 3

DEATHS FROH ALL CAUSES ... _

Popnlatien
Enumerated,

Deaths in eorre-
spondiugweek

Deaths
in the

1841.
West Districts... 301,189
North Districts.. 376,568
Central Districts 374,199
East Districts ... 393,067
South Districts .. 503,346

of 1819,
130
196
183
194
367

Week.
... 136
146
... 119
... 166
... 227

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

Males ••• ... ... ... •• • 406
Females ... ••• ... ... 388

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of ' Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
.------ -.-___.
I S. d. I s. d.
Australasia •.••.. • • •• 243. 40 0 0 40 0 0 253 i
BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ceylon ••••-•• • • • • • • 7/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per coat. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial . 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire ••• • •• 15/ per cent. - - -
lonian -
Londn and Westrainstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27U
- - 13 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock ..• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Provincialof Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ..... •• • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
gational of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
sat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ••••• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia •• •. •• 6/, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia.... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 ....
Ditto •• • • .... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. - 210 0 -
Union of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Union of Madrid ..... I - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
INStrizaricE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name et Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-------- -
A a. d. £ a. d.
Albion ...... • • ...... 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 82
Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s GdEs bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 20%
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 6
Atlas .
British Commercial - 73. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 k
Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 5 pi' et.& bs. 100 0 0 lO 0 0 20
31. 100 0 01 10 0 0 62
14s. 50 0 0 i 5 0 0 1474
Eagle ...... ...... .... 6:. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
European Life -•• • • 434 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15
General ............ - - 5 0 0 5%
GI .)tie • • . • • •••• .... • • r cent. Stock. - 132
CiAuxdian
Imperial Fire --- •• 121, per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
Imperial Life --•• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh.Bs bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Law Fire ...........• - 100 0 0 i 2 10 0 2%
Law Life............ It. 163. 100 0 o', 10 0 0 43k,
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 I 2 0 0 4%
Licensed Victuallers • • - 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
Loudon Fire •... •• • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17%
London Ship • ••• •• • • 10s. 25 0 0,12 10 0 17%
Marine - ........... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 10
lied. Invild & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct . 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
Yational Lean Fund•• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 , 210 0 -
',rational Life......... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Palladium Life
P iice nix - .... -3/. p. sh. & bs. - - 145
Professional Life -•• .. 5/. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 115.61
Pt otector Life.... ... 5.1. per cent. - - -
Provident Life........ 11.55. & bs. 100 0 0 , 10 0 0 26
Rock Life ...... .. •• ss. 5 0 0 010 0 6
!Loyal Cullen:o GI. per cent. Stock. - 209
dun Fire.
Ditto Life ..... •• • • • 11. 6s.
= I - 48
tidied Kingdom .... 41. per cent. 20 0 0 4 0 0 39.
Universal Life -•• • • lOU pr cnt. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life......... 51. per cut. - I 412 6 47.

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