The Sun. — 1864-10-12 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON.  (From the Registrar-General's Report.)  In the weak that ended on Saturday the deaths of 1,263 persons, of whom 637 were males and 626 females, were registered in London. If the deaths from epidemio cholera in the fortieth week of 1854 are excluded, it will be found that the average number of deaths in corresponding weeks of ten years, 1854.63, was 1,085, and if this result be corrected for increase of population, it becomes 1,193. The deaths registered last week are, there• fore, 70 in excess of the estimated number.  Scarlatina was fatal to 80 persons; in the pre. vious week 95 deaths were recorded from this disease ; it prevails more especially in Deptford. Seven deaths were caused by smallpox, 35 by measles, 20 by diphtheria, and 65 by typhus. One hundred and forty deaths from phthisis were registered,and 184 persons died from other diseases of the respiratory organs. The wife of a carman, aged 65 years, died from pemphigus. A photographer committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium. Last week the births of 997 boys and 899 girls, in all 1,896 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 186463 the average number (corrected) was 1,798. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.043 in. The barometrical reading was 30.19 in, on Monday, and decreased to 29.90 on Wednesday; The mean temperature of the air in the week was 49.7 deg., which is 3.0 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 624 deg. on Friday. The lowest night temperature was 37.5 deg. on Thursday. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 21.9 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 56.8 deg. ; that of the lowest was 51.6 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 9.2 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 71, complete saturation being represented by 100. The general direction of the wind was east and eastnorth-east. The births registered in Dublin during the week ending Oat. 8 were 142 and the deaths were 82, in a population of 254,808 (1861), spread over an area of 3,808 statute acres.  18,008 persons died in London during the quarter which ended on Saturday, Oct. 1. In the corresponding quarters of the years 1860-63 the numbers of the deaths registered were 12,916, 14,932, 15,133, and 17,105 respectively. Zymotic diseases were fatal to 6,421 persons, being more than a third part of the total number; in the same period of 1863 the diseases classified under this head numbered 6,295. Diarrhoea, as usual at this season, caused the greatest mortality in this class, 2,080 persons dying from this disease ; the east and south districts suffered from it the most severely. Cholera was fatal to 130 persons, the majority being children. Small-pox caused 140 deaths, a number which contrasts favour • ably with that in the corresponding quarter of 1863, when 512 lives were lost by this scourge of the ha.. man race. Measles exhibits a large increase, causing 855 deaths; in the same period of last year the num• ber was 221. The east districts show the greatest mortality from this disease ; it was particularly fatal at Poplar, Bow, Mile-end•old.town %Vest, and in some parts of Bethnal-green. Scarlatina was particularly fatal at this season last year, causing 1,519 deaths; in the quarter now expired it caused 805 deaths; of this number 74 occurred in Westminster, and 24 in the sub-district of Belgrave, St. George, districts of the metropolis. Phthisis destroyed 1,933 lives. The numbers of aHnadn ov seirt -esdq uwairt eh. much Typhus se v ec rairtryi e tdh e offe a9BBt opa nde rssoountah, n sponding quarters of i respectively persons 1,721, 1,765,wh0 1d; e2do, from a nd Other diseases of the respiratory organs proved fatal , in 1 699 cases. 70i 9s- 69.3 disease Were From diseases of the brain and neryous system 1,734