The Express. — 1868-12-02 (London, England)

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.---The weekly return istued by authority of the Regitrar-General states that in the week that ended on Saturdui. 2fith November, 4,534 births and 3,489 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in Luiden. 24 in FAlitileagb, and 24 in Dublin; 23 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 31 in Liverpool. 34 in Manchester. 32 in Salford. 2'J in Sheffield, 32 ni Bradford, 36 in Leeds, 31 in Hull, 27 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 35 in (;la'g'.w. The rate in Vienna was 29 per 1,000 during the week ending the 21st inst., and in Heflin 31 per 1.000 during the seven days ending the 26th inst. Sinall-pox centimes fatally prevalent in Sheffield, and 12 deaths we.t referred to this disease during last week within that taws ugh, making • total of 102 deaths from tLis cause in the nine weeks of the current quarter ending last Saturday, in addition to 132 recorded in the previous 13 weeks ending kith Sertenther. Thu deaths from liga:lii-pox in London during the iv! nine weeks have not exceed al 43 in a populat;cm 11.01-•• than 13 times as large as that of Sheffield. In Louden the births of 1,117 boys and 1,0.1.5 girls, in all 2,152 children, were registered in the week. In the corretponeling weeks of ten years 18.58-67 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,003. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,661. It was the forty-eighth week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week ts. with a correction for increase of population, 1,646. The deaths in the present return are less by 8.5 than the estimated amount, but exceed by 64 the number recorded in the preceding week. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 341, the corrected average number being 376. Three deaths from small-pox, 39 from measles, 99 from scarlatina, 13 from diphtheria, 30 from whooping-cough, 69 from fever, and 12 from diarrhoea were registered. The mortality from scarlatina exhibits a slight decrease when compared with the numbers recorded in seven preceding weeks. The registrar of St. George-the-Martyr, Holborn, remarks, "Then are • great many children ill of fever in Eagle-street; the houses are very thickly inhabited, and are generally dirty, and defective in drainage and sanitary arrangements." One hundred and ninety-two deaths occurred from phthisis, 217 from bronchitis, and 110 from pneumonia. In the preceding week the deaths ions phthuus were 166, from bronchitis 223, and from pneumonia 112. Diseases of the brain and nervous system proved fatal to 160 persons, and 71 persons died from diseases of the organs of circulation. A labourer, ned 63 years, died on 21st November in the workhouse, Greenwich, from destitution. The deaths of four persons from alcoholism, of 12 infants and one adult from syphilis, of seven children and two adults from burns or scalds, of five persons from drowning, of three infanta and two adults from suffocation, of five persons who committed suicide, and of three persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were metered. EMIGRATION FROM TUE MEnaelt.—During the past month of November there left the Mersey 6,484 grallta, distributed as follows :—ln ships under The governemiment acts to the United States, 6,436 passengers in 20 ships. Of this number 404 were cabin ; and of the 6,031 steerage passenters, 1,864 were lish, 190 Scotch, 1,056 Irish, and 3,36 foreigners. To Canada there was one ship with 16 passengers, of whom 16 were cabin passengers. Of short ships, or those sailing ladepmdently of the government proviaions, there were 10 to the United States with 686 paraogan ; four to Victoria with 108 ; six to South America with 108 ; one to China with 20; one to the West Indies with 16; and three to Africa with 66 ; total, 26 ships and 892 parsogenThe total emigration of the month shows increase of 181 compared with the corresponding month of last year.