The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

The quarterly'returns are obtained from 115 districts,
sub-divided into 576 sub-districts. Thirty-four districts
are in the metropolis, and the remaining 81 districts com-
prise, with some agricultural districts, the principal towns
and cities of England. The population was 6,579,693 in
1811.

43,582 deaths were registered in the spring quarter end-
ing June 30th—a number greater by 2,853 than were re-
gistered in the corresvnding quarter of 1845, and 4,731
more than in the June quarter of 1814. The mortality
was little. lower than in the preceding mild winter quarter,
when the deaths were nearly 5000 less than the average.
The districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire 'were the most
unhealthy. Taking the whole of the 115 districts, the
mortality was above the averace in the spring quarters
(ending June 30th) of 1839, 1840, 1846; and below the
average in the spring quarters of 1811, 1842, 1843, 1844,
1815. There was an evident tendency to decline through
the eight years ; but in 1846 this tendency was counter-
acted, and the deaths exceeded the calculatel average.
1 Th- "de -t- -lies of water by co, -at* the

_ne inadequate supp, .ilpanles,
imperfect sewerage in towns, the open drains and ditches,
and the general neglect of cleanliness, leave everywhere
great quantities of organic matter to decay and putrify in
the midst of crowded populations. In such circum-
stances, the mortality, like putrefaction, is always in-
creased when the temperature is high ; and epidemics of
diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera prevail. Many thou-
sands of the people of England were carried off in the

last quarter by these diseases and others of the zymotic
class.

The deaths in the quarter were 43,582. If the mor-
tality had not been higher in the towns than in the poor
country districts, where the air is purer, the deaths in the
quarter would not have exceeded 33,000. Within the last
three months, ten thousand lives have been destroyed in
a part on'y of England by causes which there is every
reason to believe may be removed.

In the metropolis, the deaths at the close of June from

diarrhoea, dysentery, and common cholera rose to 40
weekly, and have since increased. Nor is that to be won-
dered at. Notwithstanding the improvements effected
when cholera was last epidemic, the foul untrapped sewers
and the ground areas of the best streets emit noisome
smells and volatile poisons, which are as fatal as arsenic
to a certain number of persons. London is surrounded,
too, by stagnant, putrid ditches, as some cities are by
walls. It would be well not to wait carelessly until cho-
lera reaches the country, but to "look before," remove
these nuisances, and purify the reeking atmosphere,
which gives the disease breath, life, and being. These
remarks apply with tenfold force to Liverpool, Sheffield,

last quarter were more fatal than they had ever been be

ast one-thi

LIVERPOOL

St. Martin.—The number of deaths (458) registered
this quarter is above the average by nearly 100; hooping
cough, measles, and bowel complaint having been very
prevalent.

Dale-street.—Deaths 287. An increase of deaths over
the corresponding quarter of last year of 70. The increase
is caused by diarrhoea in grown persons, and convulsions

in young children

St. Thomas.—The deaths this quarter (296) are 86
more than the spring quarters of the two previous years.
The increase has been principally in the month of June;
the numbers were in April 86, May 83, June 127. The
diseases are phthisis 42, measles 52, pneumonia, &c. 33,
diarrhoea 34, hydrocephalus 11, fever 5, dropsy 4, small
pox 2 (one of these a child not vaccinated), hooping cough
8, and disease of the heart 15. Coroners' inquests 20.
Islington.—Deaths 273. There is an increase of 60
over the corresponding quarter of last year, principally to
be attributed to measles and !looping cough.
WE.T DERBY. .

West Derby.—Deaths 143. There is an increase of 4
in the number of deaths as compared with the preceding
quarter. Dysentery, pulmonary complaints, and fever
are prevalent, and probably have been more than ordina-
rily developed in consequence of the excessive heat of the
weather, and the want of drainage of the most populous
parts of my district.
Toxteth.park.—The number of deaths this quarter
450, being an increase of 60 compared with the March
quarter 1846. The increase is owing to the number of
children that have died during the quarter of measles,
hooping cough, diarrhoea, and hydrocephalus.

MR. CRESWICK IN LONDON.-Mr. Creswick, the
talented per'ermer, who has long been so great a favourite
with the critics of Liverpool, is now performing with
great success before a London auditory. The Britannia,
on authority of acknowledged excellence, in its review of
the Shaksperian performances at Sadlers' Wells, says—
" An actor new to the London boards, Mr. Creswick ap-
peared as Hotspur, and
sites a very favourabl. impression.
He has physical requ for the stage, with great in-