The Sun. — 1852-01-10 (London, England)

PUBLICATIONS.  KEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) In the week ending last Saturday, the number of deaths registered in the metropolitan districts was 1,297. In the corresponding weeks of the ten years (1841.50) the average number was 1,185, which, if raised in proportion to the greeter amount of population now existing, will be 1,304. Hence it appears that the deaths of lest week nearly coincide in amount with the corrected average. At this period deaths on which coroners have held inquests, and which consist in a large proportion of those caused by fractures, poison, burns, and other injury, swell the return by considerably more than the fair contribution of a week. Many of such cases that are now returned occurred in previous weeks, and have been accumulating till the end of the quarter when their registration was completed. There appears in the list 6 deaths ascribed to poison, 13 to burns and scalds, 24 to suffocation, among which are 7 cases of suicide by hanging (all males), and 14 cases of children suffocated by the bedclothes or overlaid, 26 deaths caused by drowning. and 34 by fractures, contusions, and wounds. Amongst the last are 12 cases of death by falling, and 5 of injury by horses and carriages. Of the burns 4 cases arose from the clothes taking fire. In the previous week 219 deaths were caused by diseases of the organs of respiration, exclusive of phthisis ; last week exhibits a rise in this class, the number being 253. Phthisis or consumption, which was fatal in the former week in 98 cases, produced 136 in the. last. Laryngitis and laryngismus stridulus number in the present return 7 cases, bronchitis 117, pleurisy 3, pneumonia 96, and asthma 20. Diseases of the zymotic or epidemic character have also rained the mortality from 203 to 234 in the two weeks. Small-pox was fatal last week in 33 cases, booping- cough in 39, scarlatina in 41, typhus in 50. Other maladies in the same category exhibit smaller amounts contributed to the week's mortality, namely, measles, which carried off 20 children, croup 2, thrush 3, infantile fever 2, syphilis 4, diarrhoea, which was fatal in 16 cases, dysentery in 4, influenza in 6, purpura in 1, intermittent fever in 2, remittent fever in 1, rheumatic fever in 1, rheumatic fever in 1, erysipelas in 7. Puerperal fever was fatal to two women, and three other cases are recorded of women dying after childbirth. It is not stated in any of the 33 cases of small-pox that vaccination had been previously performed. At 15, Benjamin-street, Saffron-hill, the daughter and son of a watchmaker, aged 3 years and 5 years, died on 29th December and 2d January of " cone fluent small-pox, unprotected." Mr. Cover, the regietrar, states that " a child in the family, who has not yet been attacked, went to see the body of a child who had died of small-pox in the neighbourhood; the two children now registered were shortly after taken ill." In the town sub- district of Bethnal-green, at 32, Bacon-street, the son and daughter of a willow weaver, aged 3 years and 6 years, died both on 23d December of small-pox, one after 9 days', the other after 13 days' illness. These children had both been vaccinated without effect. Mr. Gregory adds that "their mother did not apply again to the vaccinator, although told when tc come agaiu." In St. Peter, Wal worth, at 23, Nelson's-place, Lock's- fields, the son of a journeyman brushmaker, aged 2 years, died of small-pox. Mr. Turner mentions that " the deceased had not been vaccinated. According to the statement of the mother, she had four children vaccinated at one time, and they were very ill for some time after the operation. She believed that it had been done with foul matter, and therefore declined to have the remaining four (of whom deceased was one), vaccinated." In elepharn, at 3, Union-street, Larkhall-lane, on the 2d of January, the daughter of a bailiff, aged eight years, died of " fever (four days.)" Mr. Frost remarks that " this is the second death from fever in the same house within a fortnight. The father believes that the disease arises from a privy adjoining the house, and intends to-leave on that account. The persons who lived there before him bad four children ill with fever about nine months ago." On Nov. 20, at 3, Church-lane, St. Giles, the son of a labourer, aged fifteen months, died, according to the verdict of a coroner's jury, of " effusion on the brain, and from the poisonous air of the room in which he lodged." In the town sub-district of Bethnal-green, at 156, Church-street, on the 22d and 30th December respectively, the son and daughter of a weaver, aged 5 years and 5 months, died in one case of "scarlatina maligna (5 days)," and in the other of "scarlatina (9 days), erysipelas." Last week the deaths of two persons from intemperance were registered, of three children from want of breast-milk, of one person from cold. On the sth of December, at the Marylebone Workhouse, a man servant out of place, aged 38 years, died of " exhaustion caused by want" (post mortem) ; and on the 7th December, at the same workhouse, a labourer, aged 66 years, died of " exhaustion from want of food." Inquests were held on both these cases, and in the latter " no default at the workhouse" is added to the verdict.  IP.  Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WARBuR-roN's NEW WORK, DARIEN; or,