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

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 zymctic or epi-
demic class of diseases is 159, whereas in the same
week of last year they rose to C 93, 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 inutility 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, diarrhosa 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 children, have
been 17, 18, 33, and (last week) 40. The average
is 27. A case of English cholera is thus recorded:—
On the 4th of July, at 3, Pembroke-place, Upper
Marsh, Lambeth, a boy cf 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 tevira-
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.
Ueorge'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 IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850.
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 Kidney s, &c. •• g
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
"'lO
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ...
••• Malformations... „,
••• 3
Premature Birth ...
•• •••
Atrophy ••• ••• ••• •••• 32
„„,
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• ... 25
•.• •••
Sudden ... ... 30
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 25
Causes not specified ..• ••• .„, 3

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 794
Population Deaths in cone- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1841. of 1849. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 130 ... 136
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 196 ... 146
Central Districts 374,199 ... 183 ... 119
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 194 ... 166
South Districts .. 503,346 ... 367 ... 227

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,070 ... 794
Males ... ... ... ... ... 406
Females ... ••• ... ... ••• 388