The Express. — 1868-08-19 (London, England)

TSB ,PUBLIC HEALTH.  The weekly return of births and deaths in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom states that in the week that ended on Saturday, August 15, 4,141 births and 3,573 deaths were registered in -London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 29 per 1,000 living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 26 in Dublin; 2.5 in Bristol, 36 in Birmingham, 36 in Liverpool, 41 in Manchester 42 in Salford, 34 in Sheffield, 32 in Bradford, 36in Leeds, 34 in Hull, 31 in Newcastle-uponTyne, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 28 per 1,000 during the week ending the Bth inst., when the mean temperature was 2.7 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 26. In ten large English town's, including London, the annual death-rate from diarrhoea last week was 7 per 1,000 persons living, against 9 and 8 in the two previous weeks. In the several towns it was 4in London, 5 in Bristol, 6 in Newcastle, 9 in Bradford, 10 in Sheffield, 11 in Hull, 12 in Liverpool and Manchester 14 in Salford and Ueda, and, again highest, 17 per 1,000 in Birmingham. Although the deaths from diarrheas showed a considerable further decrease in London, they were more numerous in most of the provincial towns, and the 779 deaths referred to this cause in the ten towns were only 17 below the number in the previous week. In London the births of 1,037 boys and 1,017 girls, in all 2,054 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years 18.58-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,988. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,462. It was the thirty-third week of the year, and the average number of disths for that week is, with a correction for increase of poodation 1,425. The deaths in the present return exceed by 37' the estimated amount, but are less by 83 than the number recorded in the preceding week. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 518, the corrected average number being 519. Two deaths from small-pox, 25 from measles, 64 from scarlatina, 12 from diphtheria, 29 from whooping-cough, and 46 from fever were registered. The deaths of 223 children and 22 adults from diarrhas were recorded. Thirty-nine cases occurred in the west, 50 in the north, 18 in the central, 66 in the east, mad 82 in the south districts. Cholera or choleraic diarrhom proved fatal to 19 children and 10 adults. The mortality from diarrhoea exhibits a decrease, but the number of deaths from cholera was the same as in the preceding week. The necessity for prompt and active treatment of these diseases in the earliest stage cannot be too generally known. Many lives would he saved if medical aid were obtained at the onset. The mortality from diarrhas and choleraic diarrhcen or cholera in the London waterfields to 100,000 living, was 7 in the New River, 8 in the Grand Junction, 11 in the Southwark and Lambeth, 12 in the Fast London, and 10 in the Kent field of 'supply. The deaths of 3 persons from sunstroke wine recorded last week ; in the three preceding weeks, 11, 6, and 4 fatal cases were registered. The wife of a wire worker, aged 2.1 years, died on the Ist of August at 8, Wellesley-street, St. Luke's, of "poisoning from sating mussels." A butcher, aged 37 years, died on the 10th of August in St. George's Hospital from "gnat bite, inflammation of lymphatica." The deaths of 2 persons limn intemperance, of 3 persons from delirium tremens, of 2 persons from privation, of 5 infants and 4 adults from syphilis, of 8 persons from burns or scalds, of 12 persons from drowning, of 4 infants and 1 adult from suffocation, of 14 persons who committed suicide, and of 4 persons who were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets, were registered.  for AND MALT EXCHANGE (LlMlTED).—Yesterday a special general meeting of t e shareholders was held at the Exchange-buildings, Southwark, to confirm a resolution adopted at the last ordinary meeting of the compuiv, expunging certain articles of association bearing on the appointment of the company's manager solid. tors, and architect—Mr. Edward Lucas in the chair. The proceedings were altogether of • formal character, but Mr. Smeed, in seconding the confirmatory resolution, stated that he had just come up from the hop districts, and was happy to say that the crops were in a splendid condition. The late rains and the warm nights had produced a most striking effect, so that the yield in Kent and Sussex was liluzly to be from 12,000 to 13,000 pockets more than was expected a fortnight since. He had also to congratulate the shareholders upon the progress of the building, which was now all but completed. They would have an auction room, and ample storeage for several thousand pockets of hope, so that the undertaking would be a very great benefit to the growers, the buyers, and ultimately to the shareholders. The resolution having been confirmed, the proceedings terminated in the usual manner. _  HEAVY DAMAGES FOR THE BITE OF A Doo. Yesterday, before the Judge of the Shoreditch County Court, an action sent for decision from the Court of Exchequer, under the new County Courts Act, was brought bye groom named James Cobb, who claimed compensation for injuries, received from the bite of a dog belonging to Charles Page a horse dealer, of KenUin. The defendant kept a dog in his stable yard hidden from sight by a provender bin. On the lith of March the plaintiff went there on business, and the dog suddenly made a bound as he was peeping by, and seized him in a dangerous part, and inflicted very serious wounds. On the part of the defenoe it was contended that the dog was of a quiet and peaceable disposition, and was kept chained where any one walking down the yard could see and avoid it. The defendant might have provoked the dog b= means, or he would not have assailed him. WI were examined who swore they had known the dog for a long time, and it bad always been of a peaceable, quiet nature. The jury after a short consultation found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 401.