The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-08 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The following is the weekly return by the Registrar-
General of births and deaths in London and in thirteen
otl.er large towns of the United Kingdom :—ln the week
that ended on Saturday, July 4, 4,C20 births and 3,130
deaths were registered in London and thirteen other
large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of
mortality was 25 per 1,000 persons living. The annual
tate of mortality last week was 25 per 1,000 in London,
25 in Edinburgh, and 17 in Dublin ; 20 in Bristol,
22 in Birmingham, 26 in Liverpool, 33 in Manchester,
25 in Salford, 35 in Sheffield, 24 in Bradford, 25 in Leeds,
25 in Hull, 26 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 26 in Glasgow.
The rate in Vienna was 31 per 1,000 during the week
ending the 27th ult., when the mean temperature was 81
deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 24. In London the births of 1,050 boys
and 1,043 girls, in all 2,093 children, were registered in the
week. In the c nresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the
average number, corrected for i ncrease of population, is 1,968.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,516. It was the twen' y-seventh week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with a cor-
rection for increase of population. 1,315. The deaths in
the present return exceed by 201 the estimated amount,
and are more by G 2 than the number recorded in the pre-
ceding week. The annual rate of mortality was 22 per 1,000
in IVest London, 26 in North London, 25 in Central London,
28 in East London, and 25 in South London. The
deaths from zymotic diseases were 577, the corrected
average number being 395. Nine deaths from small-pox,
55 from measles, 36 from scarlatina, 11 from diphtheria, 49
from whooping-cough, 46 from fever, 286 from diarrhoea,
and 19 from cholera or choleraic diarrhoea were registered.
The mortality from diarrhoea-exhibits a considerable in-
crease. In the week which ended the 6th of June the deaths
from diarrlaceawere 27 ; in the three following weeks 31, 66,
and 171 persons died, and last week the deaths recorded were
28G. The deaths from fever were at the annual rate on
10,000 living of 4 in West London, 7 in North London, 9 in
Central London, 13 in East London, and 5 in South Lon-
don. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.023 in. The
barometrical reading increased from 30.05 in. on Sunday,
the 28th of June, to 30.21 in. by 9 a.m. on Monday, the
29th of June ; decreased to 29.81 by 3 p.m. on Friday, the
3rd of July, and was 29'88in. by the end of the week. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 6P6 deg.,
which is 01 deg. above the average of the same week in
fifty years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest
day temperature was 84.3 deg. on Friday, July 3. The
lowest night temperature was. 47'8 deg. on Tuesday, June
30. The entire range of temperature in the week was,
therefore 35.4 deg. The mean of the highest temperature
of the water of the Thames was 661 deg. ; that of the
lowest was 65.4 deg. The difference between the mean
dew point temperature and air temperature was 10.6 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 68, complete
saturation being representedby 100. Rain fell on Saturday,
July 4, to the amount of o.olin. The general direction
of the wind was N. and Ir.N.E. Ozone was observable
on four days of the week. Since Friday, the 29th May,
when rain fell to the amount of 1•08 in., to Saturday, the 4th
July, rain has fallen on only six days, amounting in the
aggregate to o•47in. in 36 days. According to a return
furnished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of
Works the daily average of sewage pumped into the River
Thames at the Southern Outfall Works, Crossness, was
39,700,733 gallons, or 180,379 cubic metres, equivalent to
about as many tons by weight.

FATAL SUPERSTITION.—The Arena of Verona
states that lately, during a storm, the villagers proceeded
to the church of Madonna de Dosso-Buono, in order to
ring the bells, the sound of which, they believed, would
keep off the tempest. However, the lightning, on the
contrary, fell on the tower, and killed three of the men.

THE REVENUES OF INDIA.—From the finance
and revenue accounts of the Government of India for the
year 1866-7, just published, it appears that the gross
receipts amounted to £42,122,433, and the net receipts
within the year, after deducting payments, to £41,700,603.
The total expenditure is set down at £44,639,924, which is
an excess of £2,517,491 over income.

HEALTH OF THE NAY.—The statistical report
of the health of the navy for the year 1865 has just been
issued. It gives a very favourable view of the sanitary
condition of the royal navy during that year. Compared
with the preceding year, there was a reduction in the
ratio of mortality to the extent of 21 per 1,000 of mean
force, and of invaliding to the extent of 2'5 per 1,000.
There was also a reduction in the ratio of cases entered on
the sick list.

The Punaro of Modena gives an account of a
dispute on parade which ended in the shooting of Lieu-
tenant Acqua, of the 38th Regiment, by a sergeant of the
same corps. The officer was killed on the spot, and the
murderer afterwards attempted to blow out his own brains
by discharging his rifle under his chin. He wounded him-
self severely, but not mortally, and was at once taken into
custody.

A Volucious PIRE.—A day or two ago Mr.
Martin, son of a miller at liursebridge, happening to see a
disturbance in the water of the mill stream, his attention
became fixed upon a fish engaged in gorging another
almost as big as himself. Ile fet, h !LI his gun and shot the
fish, and tn taking it from the water found it to be a pike
weighing about a pound. Firmly fixed in its teeth was
another pike, of about half .11! length, which it had
nearly succeeded in swallowing.—Su scx Acii•crliJer•.

• THE HOUUS OF POLLING AT ELECTIONS.—At a
meeting of the London Working Men's Association, Mr.
George Potter in the chair, it was resolved that a deputa-
tion from the committee of the association should wait
upon the metropolitan members for the purpose of
inducing them to move and support a clause in the
Corrupt Practices Bill extending the hours of polling until
eight p.m., so that the large number of working men em-
ployed during the day at long distances from their homes
may have the rower of recording their votes on returning
from work.