The Express. — 1868-02-26 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON. t  It appears, from the return published by • authority of the Registrar-General, that in the week that ended on Saturday, February 22, 4,6:05 births and 2,..055 • deaths were registeretl in London and in 13 other large. • towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of rourtality was 24 per,) 000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 22 per thousand in Lyndon. 25 in Edinburgh, and 33 in Dublin ; 24 in Bristol, 21 iu Birmingham, 23 in Liverpool, 28 in Mthelwater, 23 in ford, 21 in Sheffield, 23 in Leeds., 23 in Hull, 20 in New- • castlempon-Tyne, and 28in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 33 per 1,0(10 during the week ending the 15th inst.. • when the mean temperature was 3.5 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 22. In London the births of 1,130 boys and 1,156 girls, in all 2,315 children, were registered iu the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-177, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2.2. a. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,335. It was the Bth week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a oorreotiou for increase of population, 1,579. The deaths iu the present . return are less by 243 than the estimated number. The deaths from emetic, diseases were 261, the corrected average number being 321 Twenty-six deaths from smallpox, 28 frum memies,.l4494l2zhn scarlatina, 11 from di hIberia. 50 from diantices were registered. Ono death front sinall-pria occurred in the West, 10 fatal cases were recorded in the North (where the Small-pox Hospital is situated), 6 in the Central, 4 in the Kist, and 5 in the South districts. Three deaths from suiell•pox were registered iu tbu sub-di.trict of St. Andrew Eastern Holhoru, and 4 in the suh.distriet of Woolwich Arsenal. Two deaths from scarlatina were recorded in the West, 8 in the North, 4 in the Cenkral, in the East, moil 7 in the South diorites. Fourteen deaths from whooping•cough were registered in the West, Gto the North, 2 in the Central, 13 in the Ent, sad 15 in the South districts. The widow of a Milo., aged 02 1 ears, died on 13th February, at 9, Sutton street, Soho, of "choleraic ilia:thine." The deaths from feser wore at the annual rate on 10,000 living of 5 iu Weat London, 4 in North London, 15 in Cetera) London, 3in East London, and 11 in Mouth London. In calculating these results, the deaths in the Loudon Fever Ho•pital were referred to the districts from which the patents were brought. The annual rate of mortality was 2'. per 1,000 in West London, 21 in North Landon, 21 in Coatral London. 23 in E sat London, and 23 iu South Leeman. One hundred and forty-one deaths occurred from 143 from bronchitis, 73 from pneumonia, and 32 from diseases of the heart. The deaths of 3 children and 3 adults from burns or scalds, of 3 persons from drowniug, of infants from suffocation, of 2 persims who were killed by bores or vehicles in the streets, and of 4 persons who temmilted suicide, were seen il. The wife of a Laker, aged 61, died on Feb. 3, i i elcrkenwell workhouse, of " paralysis, accelerated by fright from the explosion at tho Housed Detention on Deo. 13, 1;167." A female died on Feb. 14, at St. Joseph's Home, Nuttinthill, as the ago (as stated) of 102 years  OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ATI3 LEI' 10  SPOUT&