The Express. — 1865-02-01 (London, England)

MAI. PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY. TUIRMAT, JAIL 3L—hdinissions on mime, 618; ditto by Mime* Ulises. 797; 1,415.  It appears from the weekly return issued by the Hagistrar-Oneral, that the population of the tea principal cities of the United lingdom is increase at so rapid a rate that it is seermary to take the inane into account in calculating, for the weekly tells, their mortality. And b 7 the Da estimates that can be framed from the ceseus thaw population will assottat to 5,634,012 in the middle of the meson year • Loan counties for 3,015,494, Edinburgh for 174,180, Dsiblin for 254,808, Liverpool for 476,368, Manchester sod Salford for 485,780, Glasgow for 423,72 i, Birmingham for 327,842, Leeds for 224,023. and Bristol for 161,809. The population of all the tee cities has overt ewed their limits ; sad even the line of beadarise, lased at the date of the Reform Bill, in the interval of a generation, are already antiquated. The question of the health of the ten cities is of paramount importance ; for diseases from afar find homes in themor growing epidemics radiate from their centres through the whole populace. Their leaven leavens the whole lump ; as their witelligeoce agitates the masa of the nation. The deaths of the weak ending on Saturday Lot were 3,469, the births 3,643. The rate of mortality (per 1,000 per annum) was 33 in theta citiee—nemely, 30 in London, 32 in Edinburgh. 39 is Dublla, 42 in Liverpool, 40 in lianotheater, 29 in &Hoed, 36 is Glasgow, 3'2 in Birmingham, 29 in Leer* end 30 in Bristol (=knee of its Serge workbounl. All these rates are above the average of their respective cities, which i. in part due to the winter weather. The mean annual modality of healthy places is, it will be recollected, 17 in 1,000. II the labia** of the Emperor of the French could be drawn to this subject, we should, no doubt, have similar returns for companion, not only from the great cities of his empire, but from all the great cities of Europe. The influence of the cold weather on the Ines of the population ia apparent in the Joanna mortality in Loodoe. In the week that ended on Saturday last the deaths of 1,747 pawns were registered ; in the previous week the number was 1,585. In the corresponding weeks of ten years 1855-64 the average number of deaths in, with a correction for increase of port. lance, 1,591. The deaths in the Kant return therefore exceed by 156 the estimated number. Three hundred and fit ty.nioro persons died List week from union° dimness, the corrected average number being 331. Whooping-cough is the most fatal disease in the list, having carried off 81 children ; sof these caeca were regietend Ia the sub-dietrict of St. Peter, Walworth. end 4 in that of St. Paul, St. George-in-the-East. Seventy-six deaths were caused by typhus, 14 by small-pox' and 26 by measles. The deaths of 5 children from measles is the workhouse, St. Martin-in-the-Field', were recorded. fiftyseven deaths recurred from arlatina, and 17 from diphtheria. Three persons died from diphtheria at Dartmouthtern" Forest-bill. Four hundred and seventy-two deaths were caused by diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of pbtbisis), the corrected avenge number being 404. Bronchitis was much more fatal than in say pre did week of the premed winter mac, 316 pane having died from this disease. Pneumonia, on the contrary, shows a somewhat lower mortality than the average ; it ourried off 93 persons. Two hundred and three death. occurred from phthiria, 86 from diseases of the heart, And 183 from diseases of the brain and nervous eyetem. Thirty-eight persons were killed by accidents, 16 deaths occurred from fractures or contusion, 3 children and 2 *delta died from barns or scalds, 5 persona were drowned, and 9 infanta and one adult were suffocated. Two persons committed suicide, and 2 infanta were murdered. The widow of a baker, sited 66 years, was found deed on 20th January, at 10, Comptonstreet, Clerkenweß, f rem exhaustion from exposure to cold sad neglect The eon of • cooper. aged 13 years, died on 17th January at Guy's Hospital from hydrophobia, the result of his having been bitten by a dog a month previously. Two deaths occurred from traumatic tetanus. Last week the births of 964 boys and 930 girls, in all 1,894 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1855-61 the avenge number (corrected) was 2,084.  BOAItD Or TaeDs,