The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-15 00:00:00

MORTALITY OF ENGLAND AND WALES

The quarterly table of the mortality in 114 of the principal
districts of England and Wales has just been published. It
embraces nearly all the large towns as well as the more rural
districts, and therefore affords a fair criterion of the rate of
mortality throughout the kingdom. Besides giving the
number of deaths (and the causes of them), registered during
the thirteen weeks previous to the 30th of September, it also
gives the averaze of deaths in the same quarter of the four
preceding years, and so shows the general and local increase
or decrease in the mortality.

The total number of deaths registered during the quarter
for those 114 principal districts (there are 447 registrars for
all the country) is 39,069, out of a population of 6,534,535'
Exclusive of the metropolis, the number of deaths is 28,050,
out of a population of 4,663,808.

The number registered in the metropolis during the
quarter was 11,019, out of a population (June, 1841) of
1,870,727.
As compared with the average number of deaths in the
same quarter of the four preceding years, 1838, 1839, 1840,
1841, there is an increase in the past quarter of no fewer than
2,474 deaths, the average for those four years having been
36,595, while the deaths in the past quarter have been, as
above stated, 39,069. This includes the metropolis, where
however, there were two deaths in the past quarter less than
the average of the four preceding years ; so that the increase
of 2,474 deaths is to be accounted for in the country. The
increase of population, however, has to be taken into account,
as reducing the proportionate increase of deaths. This
population increases in the town districts about 174 annually,
which would reduce the average of deaths applicable to the
summer of 1842 from 39,069 to 38,208, or 861 deaths less
than those actually recorded. Still, this would leave an in-
crease of deaths upon the quarter of no less than 1,613.
The deaths registered for the 114 districts in the first
quarter of the present year amounted to 44,472. In the
second (or spring) quarter there were 38,190. Thus there
were 879 more deaths in what is called the summer quar-
ter (ending September 30) than there were in the spring
quarter.

The mortality was 2 per cent. greater than the summer
average, which is at the rate of 23 deaths annually in a popu-
lation of 1000. In the last summer quarter, ending Sep-
tember the 30th, the mortality was at the rate of 23.4 an-
nually in 1000—namely, 23.0 in the metropolitan districts,
and 23.6 in the provincial towns.
The following are some of the towns in which the most re-
markable increase of deaths has taken place :—ln Brighton
310, or 70 above the average (240) of four fo:mer years ;
Plymouth 343, or 178 upon 165 ; Redruth 288, or 77 upon
201 ; Penzance 283, or 84 upon 199 ; Clifton 426, or 115 upon
311; Cheltenham 259, or 79 upon 180 ; Liverpool 1956, or
158 upon 1798; Tynemouth 360, or 80 upon 280. The un-
dermentioned towns in the manufacturing districts present
the following results :—ln Kidderminster the number of
deaths in the last quarter was 172, an increase 63 upon 109,
the average of former years ; Dudley 568, or 147 upon 421 ;
Walsall 243, or 91 upon 152; Wolverhampton 508, or 87
upon 421 ; Nottingham 429, or 71 upon 350 ; Preston 482,
or 73 upon 402; Chorlton 679, or 214 upon 465 ; Manches-
ter 1614, or 191 upon 1423; Bradford 820, or 115 upon 705 ;
Leeds 1133, or 114 upon 1019. At Rochdale, Sheffield.
Huddersfield, Merthyr Tydvil, Newtown, and Wrexham,
the deaths were much under the average of the four preced-
ing years.

The registrars almost universally attribute the increase of
deaths to the prevalence of scarletina and bowel complaints,
in which they include diarrhoea and cholera. The children
have been the chief sufferers. In St. Anne's, Nottingham,
out of the 133 deaths registered, 52 were of children under
one year of age. At Chorlton 28 children died, of whom 23
were children of the working classes. It is amongst the
working classes, the registrar says, that the disease has been
most fatal. The increased mortality at Brighton has been
chiefly amongst young children.
In the metropolis, as has been said, the deaths from all
causes exhibit a decrease of 2 on the average of former
years. The decrease of deaths from epidemic, endemic, and
contagious disorders has been 251. Deaths from smallpox
exhibit a decrease of 251 ; from typhus, of 153. On the
other hand there is an increase of 260 from diarrhoea (total
from this disease 477), and from cholera of 74. In other re-
spects the return from the metropolis presents no striking
features.

THE POPULATION OF FRANCE.—The following is a sta-
tistical and official table of the population of France, since
the year 1700 :-
1700
1762 21,769,163 1826

30,461,875
31,858,937
32,569,223
33,540,910
34,194,875

24,800,000 1831
25,065,883 1836

27,34003 1 1842

22,107,425

The population of Paris, according to the census of 1811,
amounts to 912,330; and if the troops of the garrison and
strangers are added, to 1,035,000.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—The ceremony on Wednesday
last, in honour of the New Lord Mayor of London, Alder-
man Humphrey, was fully equal to those of previous years.
There was a very numerous company at the banquet at the
Guildhall. Sir Robert Peel replied to the toast of Her
Majesty's Ministers, and thus concluded :—" Gentlemen, as
you have drank the health of Her Majesty's Ministers, and
as I am returning thanks in my capacity as head of the
Government, I shall not be transgressing the rule I have laid
down if I say that I assure you we are not unmindful of the
obligations which office imposes. Many may differ from us
as to the mode in which we effect the object we have in view
—few will differ, I think as to the propriety of those objects.
(Cheers.) Our earnest wish is, to cultivate the relations of
Peace, and to extend the inestimable benefits of peace in
ished the lustre _everyrro manner that is compatible with the honour and the
permanent and comprehensive interests of this country.
which the stre
The object of our policy is to maintain untarn-
The object
(Cheersx.
of the British arms on every occasion on
labour, and to ex appealof to arms becomes indispensable. (Cheers.)
policy is to encourage the demand for
the public credit and ;end the commercial prosperity of the
country.
object of our policy is to main-
tainwhich no country can and that character for public faith
of its moral losewithout losing also a great por-
tionstrengthwecheers;) and, such being the
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of the results of our policy, if we shall
shall regard it as one of the most
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that sincere and earnest wish I conclude by assuring state. lytioi tuh,
that next to the approbation of our Sovereign
consciences, we can receive no higher reward, atnhedreoucranowbne
no greater incentive to exertions to promote public
interest, than the hope of obtaining and deservtiliegdothe
fa-
vourable opinion and confidence of the city of London."—
The Right Hon. Baronet aat down amidst prolonged
and
universal shouts of applause.