The Sun. — 1860-02-29 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TEE WEEK.  (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) The sickness which is now so generally diffused throughout the metropolitan population, continues to develop itself in a high rate of mortality. The deaths registered in London, which rose in the previous week to 1,454, increased in the week that ended last Saturday (Feb. 25), when the deaths of 1,500 persons were registered. In the ten years 185059 the average number of deaths in the corresponding week was 1,227 ; but as the deaths returned last week occurred in an increased population, the average to admit of comparison should be raised proportionally to the increase, namely, to 1,349. It appears, therefore, that the deaths of last week exceeded by 151 the number which the average rate of mortality would have produced. The births registered exceeded the deaths by 464. Of the 1,500 deaths, 724 occurred under 20 years 228 of age, 188 in the period 20 to 40 years, 80 at 40 to 60, 291 at 60 to 80. and 63 at the age of and upwards. Of these, six were deaths of noßogenarians ; and the widow of a hatter, residing in Friarstreet, Southwark, had attained, it is said, the age of 101 years. Of 1,500 deaths, 256 are referred in the returns to the zymotic class of diseases, 271 to the constitutional, tional, 728 to the local, 171 to the developmental class, and 42 to violence. Of the 42 uhndehrotmhieelidaset, head, 38 were accidental, two (inflammation mangtahmisaisli and 2 by suicide. The deaths from 250, were wyberroenaelhmitoisst, which in the previous week precisely the same last week,l'hi'oceronoufmtbheerlbueeigneg)2ls3ll. pFerrostonn e ddied, pneumonia ao d -pox 171. In the zymotie in 39 cases, common fever 22, and 63 children, the number scarlcaaltanispsascarried off 33 persons, k from oims reportedt hi s d disease; a stoe diphtheria 15, htyrumsanydas ber dying In being 40. A commercial travellergwe e shock to the nervous system, occasioned died from the preceding witnessing a railway accident ; he, howesivoenre,dsubffyered from enlargement of the heart. Last week the births of 977 boys and 987 girls, in all ],9 64 children, were registered in London. In thete9nCl ldn corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59 the average number was 1,738. At the Itnyal Observatory, Grcenwicb, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 768 in. The highest barometrical reading occurred on Thursday, when it was 30.10 in. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 34 5 neg which is 4.3 deg. below the average of the sa.me week iu 43 years (as determined by )\lr. Glaistlur). The mean daily temperature was below the u verage on every day except Sunday, and on Friday the depression was as much as 7 6deg. The hiG hest point attained was 24.3 deg. on Friday night. The range of the week was therefore 23 7 (!eg. rite mean daily range was 131 deg. The differene e between the mean dew-point temperature and the mean air temperature was 5.4 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 82, complete •saturao being represented by 100. The tneftn tenaveratti ure of the water of the Thames was 36e8 clefs. The direction of the wind was variable. Itaiu, fell in small quantity in the early part of Out week,