The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-30 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 July 23, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
1838-9-40-1
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. --%
our Four
Sumtners 'Years
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 122 191 • 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 166 150 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
,: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
Ctiildbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 8 8 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 3 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 1
Diseases of Uneeitain Seat. 7O 95 104
(Yri Age, or Natural Decay 4B 54 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes. 744
Average Weekly Deaths
Population: ' Average Deaths
enu- ' Weekly in
DISTRICTS. merated Deaths the
Ib4l. 18.39-4,40-1. Week.
West—Kensington, St. George r=--"----1
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I' Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye ..rs.Summers.
St. James ' 300,705 135 124 104
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St.
Pancras, Islinietiii, Hackney 365,660 162 149 144
Cctitral—Saint Giles and Saint

George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lo-
ndon, West London, City of
London 373,806 168 174 157

East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal. Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49; 206 198 164
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Soutlwark),Ber.
mond.ey. Newington, ,Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
hithe, Greenwich . . ... -.438,060 221 203 175

Total 1,870,727 912 846 744
It is slated 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. Marylebone, 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, 1840. and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
206, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMERATU/sE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
July 16. July 23.
833 781
53 53
66 65
:8, 1842.

Highest

Lo'l:vest
Daily Mean ......
General Register Office, July

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On Monday last, a heart-rending scene of degrada-
tion and distress was again seen at Arnold, viz. the drawing of
a wagon laden with coals by the unemployed operatives. It ap-
pears that these poor fellows, to the number of thirty, have,
with many others, been out of employment for a length of time,
and, in order to obtain the means of subsistence; they procured
a wagon laden with coals, and harnessed to it in ropes, like SO
many horses, they traverse about, obtaining from the charity of
the benevolent a scanty subsistence tot' themselves and families.
—Nottingham Review.