The Express. — 1868-08-26 (London, England)

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.  The Registrar-Generale return shows that in the week that ended on Saturday, August 22, 4,C01 births and 3,541 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate cf mertality was 29 her 1,000 living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per I.ooe in London, 31 in Minix:llhn and 2.1 in Dublin; 24 in Bristd, 35 in Birmingham, 34 in Liverpool, 45 in Alan, heit,r 44 in Salford 37 in Sheffield, 30 in  Pradford. 38in Leeds, 33 in Hull, 27 in Newrisd.le-uponTyne and 28 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 29 per 1,000 during the week ending the 15th inst.,when th 4 mean t.mperature was 12.0 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the nite was 24. The deaths from diarrhea in the eleven large Eng lisp towns, ineludingLondon, were 739 last week,against 917, 796, and 779 in the three previous weeks, and again showed an annual death-rate of 7 per 1,000 person. living. The number of fatal eases had slightly declined in most of the provincial towns, the rates in the several towns being 4in London, 6in Newcastle-uponTyne. 7 in Bristol, 9 in Sheffield and Bradford, 10 in Liverpool, 12 in Manchester, Hull, and Salford, 13 in Leeds, and, again highest, 16 per 1,000 in BirininOam. In London the births of 1,017 boys and 1,020 girls, in all 2,t67 children, were registered in the week. In the corroponding weeks of ten yearslB6B-67 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,038. The deaths registered in London during the work were 1,428. It was the thirty-fourth week of the year, and the average number of deaths fur that week is, with a earrection for increase of population 1,361. The loathe iu the present return exceed by 77 the estimated amount, but are fele by 34 than the number recorded in the preceding week. The deaths from symo. tie diseases wore :47 the corrected average number being 483. Five deaths from small-pox, 33 from measles, 49 from scarlatina, 7 from diphthong, 22 from whooping. cough, and .53 from fever were registered. Two hundred and forty-six deaths from diarrhesa were recorded ; in the preceding week the number was 245. Seven deaths from diarrhwu were registered in the sub-district of Kentish Town, 14 in the sub-district of Islington Wort, 10 in the sub-distiiet of lelington East, 7 in the sub-district of the Green, Bethnal-green, bin the sub-district of Poplar, 7 in the sub-district of Lambeth Church, second part, and 6 in the sub-district of Battersea. Cholera or choleraic diarrhea proved fatal to 13 children and 2 adults. The mortality from diarrhiea and choleraic diarrhoea or cholera' in the London wuterdelds to 100,000 living. was nine in the New River, six in the Grand Junction. 11 in the Southwest and Lambeth, 10 in the East London, and seven in the Kent field of supply. 166 deaths occurred from phthisis, 66 from bronchitis, 37 from pneumonia, 42 from diseases of the heart, and 140 from diseases of the brain and nervous system. The deaths of 10 infants from syphilis, of three persons from burns or scalds, of nine persons from drowning, of five infants from suffocation, of siz persons. who committed suicide, and of six persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets, were registered.  Mont