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

WEEK.  (From the Registrar-General's _Report.) I,i¢ll The last report showed a decrease on the '17,0.. mortality of the third week of July, and it is sirtg factory to find that the present returns exhibl'elo further reduction. In the two previous weeks the deaths in London were 1,605 and 1,419; in week ending last Saturday they were Within the last four weeks the mean weekly te,t per ature has fallen by continuous decrease front ' deg. to 63.8 deg. of In the ten years 1849-58 the average number lc deaths in the weeks corresponding with last Wee was 1,188 ; but, as the deaths contained in the pif sent return occurred in a population that has 1:: creased, they can only be compared with the 0„ rage raised in proportion to the increase—namely' with 1,306. The rate of mortality has therel4, so nearly returned to its ordinary limits, Willer ' however, are capable of great and permanent &be traction, that the deaths exceeded by only 31 +the number obtained from former experience in first week of August. The births of last week exceeded the deaths the same period by 381. in The deaths caused by diarrhcea, which rose, the third week of July to 415, fell in the folloWlcei week to 382, and last week to 312. The corree.ta average of ten weeks (in 1849-58) corresponclidi, with last week is 170. In five metropolitan the visions, the East districts, though net eel' most populous, contribute as in former the largest proportion of deaths by diorrna In Shoreditch 19 deaths from it occurred, t, Bethnal-green 10, in Whitechapel 8, in Ola George-in-the-East 16, in Stepney and Mile-endlw► of Town 19, and in Poplar 12. On the south se, the river 13 occurred in the sub-district of St.l,`„oe Walworth. Among northern districts Marylefc; 0. returned 22, Pancras 21 deaths from diarrr hoThere are also 24 deaths recorded as due to core lera ' and " choleraic diarrhoea," 14 of which Wes, among children. Small-pox was fatal in 20 ensg, diphtheria also in 20, scarlatina in 63, syphilitar Three infants and an adult died by murder or 'the slaughter. Five nonagenarians are returned, of three oldest of whom died at the respectiveages 94, 95, and 97 years. if Of A girl, aged 14 months, died on the 29th uo, coup de soleil, and on the day following a Nvi,u-ota aged 83 years, died of " cerebral congestion exposure to intense sunlight." • le Last week the births of 860 boys and 858 glrdoe, in all 1,718 children—were registered in Lenl3,-9-58 In the 10 corresponding w?eks of the years 107 the average number was 1,530. eaa At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the or, itt height of the barometer in th• week was 29'0 to The barometer rose from 29.51 in. on Sundfiltbe 29.96 on Saturday, these being respeetivelY esa lowest and highest points in the week. The n3deg, temperature of the air in the week was 53'8 oie which is 1.5 deg. above the average of the set). week in 43 years (as determined b 3, Mr. Glailieet The thermometer in the shade rose to its hi g est, point, 80 deg., on Wednesday, and fell to its losvo ~re 48.9 deg. on Saturday. The range of tempera tee the week was therefore 31.1 deg. The met' daily daily range was 22.2 deg. On Wednesday the toe mometerin the sun rose to 100.3 deg. The differ; of between the mean dew-point temperature and eett temperature was as much as 11.7 deg. The nliets degree of humidity of the air was 64, eenli)oer saturation being represented by 100 ; on IN e-ore' day the humidity was only 55. The mean tell*, ture of the water of the Thames was 70 or, which is higher by 6.4 deg. than that of theasts The wind blew on every day from the south-sting There was rain on the last three days, amour to 0.13 inch, which fell chiefly on Thursday.