The Sun. — 1865-01-11 (London, England)

DEATHS IN LONDON IN THE LAST QUARTER OF 1864.  In the 13 weeks that ended Dec. 31, 19,636 deaths were registered in London. In the corresponding quarters of the years 1860-63 the numbers of deaths wore respectively 15,197, 1:5,86, 17,717, and 18,857. The increase in the mortality is chiefly found in the local class, 8,535 persons having died from diseases included under that head ; in the same period of 1861 7,639 deaths occurred from the same causes, and in 1864 only 6,300. Zymotic diseases in the aggregate were not so fatal as in the corresponding quarters of the two preceding years, the numbers in the three quarters being 5,055, 5,016, and 4,847. The most fatal disease in the list is scarlatina, which caused 1,095 deaths. 1,064 persons have died from typhus, which shows a large increase as compared with the corresponding quarters i n the years 1860-63, the deaths for those periods amounting to 311, 624, 796, and 881. The alarming inroads made by this disease on the lives of the population deserves careful investigation, and shows the necessity of carrying out at once every available sanitary measure. Smallpox was fatal in 120 cases, 81 of which were in young persons. The mortality from measles varies considerably. In the same period of 1861 the disease carried 171 persons ; in the like period of 1862 900 fell victims to its influence, and in the quarter which has just terminated it destroyed 638 lives. Whooping-cough proved fatal to 438 children, a number differing little from that registered in the wrresponding quarter of 1863, when 429 deaths were caused by this disease. Erysipelas and metria (childbed fever) show an increase. From the former disease 151, and from the latter 82 deaths were registered.  •-Diseases H of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthisis  were fatal in nearly 1,000 more cases than in tho same period of the year 1863. In the quarter which ended the 2d of January, 1864, 3,470 persons died from pulmonary diseases ; in the quarter just ended 4,467 persons died from the same causes. Bronchitis is the most fatal disease in this class, 2,387 persons having died from its 60- attac 63 being k, the numbers who died in the like periods of 18 1,630, 1,553, 1,760, and 1,831. Pneumonia was also more than usually active, having destroyed 1,555 lives. The numbers who died in the periods with which the comparison is made were 1,250, 979, 1,065, and 1,193. 1,985 deaths occurred from phthisis. In the same quarters of 1860-63 the numbers who fell victims to the disease were vessels efisromoccainssaionnietay,9947l 1,785, 1,840, 1,899, and 2,066. From diseases of the brhin and nervous .4 persons died ; of this number 119 died fromces;Taelraitis,l"942276 from apoplexY, from epilepsy', and 678 from convulsions. Diseases of the heart and blood 876 from paralysis' deaths. In the same period of 1863 886 these affections. persons died from 572 persons lost their lives by accidents of various kinds. In the corresponding quarters of 1860-63 came to such an untimely end were the numbers who In the 13 weeks now ended 230 s deaths were occasioned by 415, 432, 428, and 563. fractures and contusions, 27 drowning, and 127 by suffocation—of by burns or scalds, 47 by young persons. 25 cases these latter 115 were ' murder or manslaughter and 64 cases of suicide were registered.