The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

:MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Aug. 13, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General

Weekly
A verage
1638-9 .40-

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CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. ,---A----;
Four I Four
Summers 'Years
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 163 191 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 172 150 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
L.);seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
• Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidnoys, &c. 4 4 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, ice 6 8 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 5 5 . 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c....... 2 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat. l2l 95 104
01c1 Age, or Natural Decay 52 54 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes.
874
Average Weekly Deaths B4B 912
Population: Average Death
enti Weekly in
DISTRILTS. merated Deaths the
1641. 183S-P-4c-1. Week.
West—Kensington, St. George ~....____A_----,
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye-rs.iSummers.
St. James
North—St. Mary-le-bre, St.

Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
L0nd0n...... -.373,806
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49;
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Southwark),Ber-
mondbey, Newington. Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
hithe, Greenwich .............438,060

179
192

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Total ......... 1,870,727 912 848 874
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—
and the parishes of St. ,Ltrylebone, St. Pancras. Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brom-
ley), St. Mary.le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St: Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1810. and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in tho four winters by 52.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Aug. 6. Aug. 13.
82° 87°
55 58
66 70
18, 1842.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean .
General Register Office, Aug.

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amid the most trying vieissitudes of the season and the
weather.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—SHOCKING SUICIDE OF AN
OLD MAN, 77 YEARS OF AGE.-011 -Friday afternoon an
inquest was held before William Carter, Esq., at the
Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower, Ashstead, Surrey, on
view of the body of John Tanner, aged 77 years,. a gar-
dener, who died in consequence of a desperate wound ho
had inflicted on his throat with a razor, under the fol-
lowing circumstances!—Emma Tanner, daughter of the
deceased, deposed that on the afternoon of Friday,
the 12th inst., her mother re quested her to seek her
father, who had been out of: doors for some time, and
on going to a shed, at same little distance, she saw
the deceased coining out of the shed with the blood
pouring from a wound in leis throat. Witness gave an
alarm, and a neighbour came to her assistance, who
asked deceased why he did it ? To which he replied, "I
did it ;" and putting f.is hand up to his throat, said
ted to feel it: it was asunder." Deceased had
• before attempted to commit suicide, but had been pre-
vented, and a careful watch was set over him. Mr. Mur-
ry, a surgeon, deposed that he attended the deceased un-
til his death, which took place on Tuesday last. lie
found an incised wound in the throat, about three inches
in length and two inches deep. There was a great deal
of movement of the muscles of the left side of his body,
indicating disease of the 'brain ; also considerable wild-
ness in his manner. • The Jury returned a verdict, "That
the deceased died from disease of the brain, accelerated
by cutting his throat, being at the time of unsound mind."
FALmourn, Ara. 1 B.—The transport barque Numa,
from Barbadoes, with invalids, put in here this afternoon
for provisions, having been 47 days from Barbadoes ;
just, as she anchored one of the poor creatures on board
died. The Tweed, 'West India. steam-ship, left this yes-
terday- with the mails ; we regret to report that she had
only a very few passengers.

Leave I Time of Arrival at
Birmingham Departure. Birmingham.
-- -
First Class... • I 45 M First Class... 3 30 M; 8 OM,
Mixed Train *6 0 Mixed Train. 6 0 11 31
Mixed Train 930 First Class...l 9 15 12 45 E
First Class... II 31) First Class... 10 30 3 15
First Class .. 2 15 E Mixed Train 4 OE 9 30
First Class.., •:? 45 First Class... 7 0 11 30
Mixed Tra.n: 4 30 ..
First Class...' 7 15
SUNDAYS.' SUNDAYS.
First Cl...assl 1 45 M First Class..., 3 30 M 8 0 M
Mixei Tr inl 7 30 Mixed Train! 8 15 12 45 E
Mixed Train 11 30 Mixed Train 10 30 3 15
Mt. ed Train 245 E Mix. d Trsirn 7 0E 12 Night
. Those Trains meet the North Union Train to Preston at Parkside
._.==...............,..c
CHESTER AND CREWE,
FROM CRRWR TO CIIF.STER. I FROM CO r trron ...., ,___

IWIZ TO Cimsrert.
Leaves Crewe.
MALT 4 15M
Mixed Tra•n 9 0
First Cla^ss ..... OE
MAIL
On Sunday only VI

ND CREWE,
FROM CHESTER To CREWE.
Leaves Chester.
MAIL 4 15M
First Class ' 11 :30
Mixed T,ain 5 OE
MAIL
to Mail Trains run.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD.
FROM CHESTER TO, BIRKENHEAD. FROM BIRKENHEAD TS CHESTER.
MAIL at SM, and Mixed Trains Mixed Trains atand 10 20M,
at 830 and 1030 M, and at 1,4, and at LI 50 and 3 50E, MAIL at
anti; 45 E.
6 40 E.
SusnAvs.—MAit at SM, and SUNDAYS.—Mixed Traino at 830
Mixed Trains at 9 30 M, and at and 950 M, and 6 15 E, MAIL at
6 3, •
, 630 E.
Steam Packets leave Liverpool for Birkenhead VO minutes before
the starting ot each Train fsr Chester, and from Birkinhead for Li-
verpool on the arrival of every Train from Chester.

NORTH UNION.
Trains Lleave Liverpool for Lancaster at 3 15 (Mail), 8 45,
and 11 Al, and at 2 30 and 4 45 E ' • and from Manchester for
Lancaster, at 15 minutes after the Liverpool time of starting.
Trains leave Lancaster for Liverpool and Manchester, at 2,
710 and 845 M, and at 1 1.0 and 550 E.