The Sun. — 1860-05-30 (London, England)

PUBLIC.' DEALTII.  (Frog,; the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The total nu tuber of deaths registered in London in the week th .at ended last Saturday was 1,087, and nearly the same as that of the previous week. For the 10 yet .rs 1850-59 the average number of deaths in th a weeks corresponding with last week is blind after correction for increase of population to be .1,133. The present return is, therefore, ifactory, that it gives a number less 46 than stah tci: , average rate of mortality at this season would have produced. Twenty-four deaths were recorded in the week as caused by smallpox, of which 7 occurred in the Smallpox Hospital. From measles 51 children died ; from scarlatina 20 ; and there were also 8 deaths from diphtheria. Seven of the fatal oases of measles occurred in Isling ton, wad 4 in Chelsea; but the complaint seems chief ly to prevail in the south districts, where 21 are retui7ne(l, 6 of which occurred in Bermondsey, 4 in Dreivington, 3 in Rotherhithe. Phthisis carried off. :171 persons, the corrected average for corresponding weeks being 157. Three persons died from pm -pura, 2 children from noma ; a girl, aged :one yea r, from tgenia solium. Four children were suffoca,ted in bed. The son of a tinman, aged 3 years, way burnt fatally by his clothes taking fire; the son o.f a carpenter, aged 2 years, also by his clothes takiLig fire. Two children, one aged 2 years, the other o.nly 7 days, were burnt by ,means not stated. The daughter of a porter, aged 2 years, was scalded by falling into a pan of hot water ; and a man who had been a butcher, 62 years old, was scalded at the workhouse in Bethnal-green by being put into a bath of boiling water "through great negligence." A remarkable and also a lamentable fact contained in this return is that eight infants were found murdered. A boy, aged 5 years, died by manslaughter ; a man from the bite of a dog. Last week the births of 842 boys and 838 girls, in all 1,680 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59 the average number was 1,606. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-850 in. ; on each of the first three days the mean reading was above 30 in. Tho highest barometrical reading was 30.22 in., and occurred on Monday ; the lowest was 29.21 in., on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 59 deg., which is 4.8 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr, Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature was above the average throughout the week; but this excess was the greatest on the first four days. The thermometer in the shade fell to its lowest point, 45.3 deg., on Monday ; it rose to its highest, 76.5 deg., on. Wednesday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 31.2 deg. ; but the range attained on Wednesday alone was 31 deg. The mean daily range was 24.7 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 10.4 deg. That difference on Tuesday was 14 deg., showing great dryness of the air. The greatest difference ors the same day was 23.9 deg. The degree of humidity of the air was 57 on Tuesday, complete saturation being represented by 100. The mean humidity of the air in the week was 67. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 60.2. The thermometer in the sun rose to 130-8 deg. on Wednesday. On. the last five days the wind was chiefly in the south-west. The whole amount of rain in the week was 0.20 in., nearly all of which fell on Saturday. A thunder-storm cc, curred on the afternoon of that day. e I