The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-13 00:00:00

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Cass!
Registered in the week ending Aug. 6, 1842." The Table 10
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly.
Average
I b3B-9-40-1
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total.

'our Four
Summers I Year.
Epidemic, Endemic. & Contagious Diseases 198 191 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 150 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Okseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidwys, &c
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 5 8 10
Diseases of the Jnints,. Bones, and Muscles 4 b 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ll4 95 104
0!d Age, or Natural Decay 56 54 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-

penance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes.

Average Weekly Deaths B4B 912
Population' Average Death
eau • Weekly i n
DISTIIILTS. merated Deaths the
1641. 163!,-9-4 '-1. N% eel.
West—Kensington, St. George r _.......A_-___,
( Hanover-square ), Westmin- Four
I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye• r.:. Summers.
St. James 300,705 135 124 130
North--St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 149 197
Central—Saint Giles and Saint

George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
London 373,806
East—Shoreditch,Whiteehapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49;
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,

St.George(Southwark),Ber-
mond.ey, Newington, Lam-
beth, CamberwPll, Rother-
hithe, Greenwich .............438,060

203 17$
-.....--••••

Total 1,870,727 912 848 890
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein meutioned, which include the City of Low:
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. Maryiebone, St. Pancras, Kerisinee?!
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), J!
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brae'
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nichols'
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, ae
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890 , and in June 1841, el's4,
1,870,727. The weekly aversge for 1838, 1839, 1840. and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years!),
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEJIPERATUKE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Joly 30. Aug. 6.
80e 82°
50 55
63 88
11, 'sit?.

Highest

Lo—west

Daily Mean .... ......... ... 1
General Register Office, Aug.

A letter from Copenhagen, July 2.5, states that the
King, after baring consulted the four assemblies of the
provincial states, had issued an order for the reform o'e
prison discipline. A system of solitary confinement is
to be adoptad with respect to all. persons confined for
less than eight years, but with workshops to contain
eight or ten workmen, in case their health should suffer
from complete isolation. Prisoners condemned for more
than eight years, or fur life, are to be distributed is
prisons where they are to be placed in workshops con'
taining eight or ten personi, in which an absolute silence
is to reign. As to food, no difference is to be made any
where, except for prisoners for debt. Bread and water.
diet is to be entirely abolished, it being considered pre-
judicial to the health, but whenever a prisoner is con-
demned to bread and water, he is, instead of being VI
on that diet, to be imprisoned for a much longer peri"".
than in eases where the sentence does not involve depri-
vation of the usual prison fare. The maximum of iln"
prisonment for debt, which is now 20 and 25 years, is W
to reduced to 10 years fer natives of Denmark, and 15
for foreigners. Religious instruction is to be provided
in every prison. It is singular that iu a reform of prison
discipline, evincing otherwise so much philanthropy
the odious and unjust distinction between natives stied
foreigners imprisoned for debt should be maintained.
ROYAL VISIT TO PLYMOUTH.—We understand that
a special messenger arrived at -Portsmoutl4 on Tues-
day, with instructions to the authorities to prepare the
Royal yacht, if possible by Saturday, to convey her
Majesty to Plymouth, it, being her Majesty's inten-
tion to honour with her presence, at the Dockyards
the launch of the Albion, henceforth to be named the
Albert. We are sure that nowhere will our young
and gracious Sovereign receive a more zealous and
hearty welcome than in the west of England ; and
that sincere feelingot less than the stimulus to ac-
tivity and bu3iness which such a visit will occasion,
will mark her loyal reception in these towns.—Ply-
mouth Weeny Journal. -

BIRTHS.
On the 29th ult., at Naples, Mrs. Andrew Scott, of a sun.
On the 11th inst., at Bloomsbury. square, the lady of Sarauel
Pocock, Esq., ofi son.
On the 1 lth inst., at Blackheath, the lady of James Far-
quhar, Esq., of Hallgreen, Kincardine, North Britain, of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Putney, the lady of Lancelot Shady, ell,
Esq., of a son.
On the 12th inst., the wife of John B. Berger, E.q..
place, of a son.