The Sun. — 1859-08-10 (London, England)

DURING  WEEK.  (From the Registrar-General's Report.) gh The last report showed a decrease on the hls, mortality of the third week of July, and it is sat"o, factory to find that the present returns exhibithe further reduction. In the two previous weeks ,be deaths in London were 1,605 and 1,419; week ending last Saturday they were I°",, Within the last four weeks the mean weekly te,.l dpeegr a.ttuore63hBasdfeagll.en by continuous decrease froth In the ten years 1849-58 the average number deaths in the weeks corresponding with last W_ was 1,188 ; but, as the deaths contained in the pt, sent return occurred in a population that has 111 tcoomthpearienderweaisthe_tnhave 3ajiee; craregaeserdaie with 1,306. The rate of mortality has therelob, raised yin can proportion only b e so nearly returned to its ordinary limits, wiliew however, are capable of great and permanent 130 traction, that the deaths exceeded by only 31 fthe number obtained from former experience in " first week of August. is The births of last week exceeded the deaths the same period by 381. is The deaths caused by diarrhoea, which rose, 0, the third week of July to 415. fell in the folloWnica week to 382, and last week to 312. The eorrto average of ten weeks (in 1849-58) correspenulai. with last week is 170. In five metropolitan the visions, the East districts, though nev'eelts cest most populous, contribute as in former . the largest proportion of deaths by diarr,h is 7 In Shoreditch 19 deaths from it occurre'St. Bethnal-green 10, in Whitechapel 8, ill' old George-in-the-East 16, in Stepney and Mile-en. of Town 19, and in Poplar 12. On the south ,Slater'„t the river 13 occurred in the sub-district of St. -11;000 Walworth. Among northern districts MarYle,tee. returned 22, Pancras 21 deaths from diarr,ocho, Ti here are also 24 deaths recorded as due to 'were era ' and "choleraic diarrhoea," 14 of which toes, among children. Small-pox was fatal in 20 c diphtheria also in 20, scarlatina in 63, syphilislior Three infants and an adult died by murder or nltile slaughter. Five nonagenarians are returned' gof three oldest of whom died at the respective age-94, 95, and 97 years. it. of A girl, aged 14 months, died on the 29th tiovit coup de soleil, and on the day following a w7forn aged 83 years, died of "cerebral congestion .0 exposure to intense sunlight." • V Last week the births of 860 boys and 858 goti in all 1,718 children—were registered in 11156 In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years I°' the average number was 1,530. files° At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the -f iris height of the barometer in the week was 29.80; to The barometer rose from 29.51 in. on Sundaitte 29.96 on Saturday, these being respectiveb' lowest and highest points in the week. The,7leg../ temperature of the air in the week was 53"° which is 1.5 deg. above the average of the,s-er), week in 43 years (as determined Mr. Glass hest The thermometer in the shade rose to its hig,ett point, 80 deg., on Wednesday, and fell to its 1° taro 4.8 9 deg. on Saturday. The range of temPerfn3 tea in the week was therefore 311 deg. The "ilia' daily range was 22.2 deg. On Wednesday the ;epee mometer in the sun rose to 100.3 deg. The dine'd air between the mean dew-point temperature as eaa temperature_ was as much as 11.7 deg. The.:oleto degree of humidity of the air was 64, c,,,euciloes" saturation being represented by 100; on vv.,e,i,--erty day the humidity was only 55. The mean te',1144 ture of the water of the Thames was 70. L, which is higher by 6.4 deg. than that of trscesP _The wind blew on every day from the sout''-n.tieg There was rain on the last three days, aln°l-/to 013 inch, which fell chiefly on ThursdaY.