The Sun. — 1862-07-02 (London, England)

THE WEEK.  (From the Registrar-General 's Weekly Return.) The deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,066. They exhibit a decrease on the returns of the previous three weeks of June, when they extended 1,190. In the first week of the month the mean temperature of the air was 58.6 deg., nearly two degrees above the average ; in the second it was 55.3 deg., nearly three degrees below the average; in the third it was 54.9 deg., nearly five degrees below the average; and last week it was 56.2 deg , and was below the average by 44 deg. The greater part of the month was cold. The average number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of ten previous years (corrected) is 1,227. The mortality of last week was less by 161 deaths than it would have been if the average rate of mortality had prevailed. Both scarlatina and typhus are now less fatal than they were in the earlier part of the year. Last week measles predominated among diseases of the epidemic class, and carried off 59 children. Four deaths from measles were returned in Spitalfields, 4in Limehouse. Of 49 cases, in which scarlatina was fatal, 6 occurred in the Kensington Town subdistrict, 5 in Somers-town. Forty-seven deaths occurred from typhus, 8 of which were returned by the London Fever Hospital. In the workhouse Mile-end Old-town two persons, husband and wife, died of typhus, the former on the 21st ult., the latter on the2olll ult. A boy, aged two years, died of warty disease of the larynx. A man, aged 39 years, died of debility, which is stated to have been caused by living exclusively on vegetable food. Four persons, 3 of whom were intents, died by murder or manslanghter. Last week the births of 897 boys and 910 girls, in all 1807 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding week of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1879. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.762 in. The reading rose from 29.57 in. on Sunday to 30.02 in. on Wednesday, and fell to 29.59 in. on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 56.2 deg., which is 4.4 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average on every day, and on Saturday th e amount of depression was 8.5 deg. The highest day temperature was 72.5 deg. on Thursday. The lowest night temperature was 43.8 deg., and occurred on Saturday. The range of the thermometer in the week was therefore 28.7 deg. The mean daily range was 17.7 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 7.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 77, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind blew generally from the north-west. The highest reading of a thermometer in the sun was 115 deg. on Monday and Thursday. Rain fell on four days, but the total quantity measured was only 0.09 in. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 60.3 deg. ; that of the lowest was 58.1 deg. The highest readings and the lowest reported continued without variation after Monday, and were respectively 60.6 and 58.4 deg.