The Sun. — 1864-07-13 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON.  (From the Registrar-General's Report.) IThe deaths in London in the week that ended last Satufday were 1,268. The number returned have varied little during the last five weeks, 1,262 having been the lowest in that period, and 1,297 the highest. The average number for the 27th week of ton years 1854.63 is, with a correction tar increase of population, 1,172. The actual result of last week is therefore in excess of the estimated number by nearly 100 deaths. DiarrlT ce i continues to increase slowly, and it was returned last week in 81 cases, Seventy-nine deaths from measles were registered. This disease exhibits a mortality double the average, but its weekly number is not higher now than it was after it obtained a sudden increase in the middle of May. It is not a favourable sign of the sanitary condition of the eastern division of the metropolis that it returned more deaths from measles than any other division, also more from whooping-cough, typhus, and diarrhoea. There were seven from measles in Mile-end Old-town. Of six deaths in the Old-street sub •district of St. Luke four were from measles, one from diptheria, and one from fever. Of eight deaths in Haggerstone East six were from zymotic diseases. A man died from " thrombi of the femoral veins (seven days), oelema of the lungs (eight days)." In the Cambridge road, Bethnal-green, on the 2d inst. a greengrocer, aged 64 years, died of" cholera Asiatica (five days), following consecutive fever." Last week the births of 967 boys and 900 girls, in all 1,876 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number, corrected, was 1,782. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 88in. On Sunday the reading was 29.47 in, and rose to 30.02 in on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 56.5 deg., which is 5.1 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average throughout the week. The highest day temperature was 74.1 deg. on Tuesday. The lowest night temperature was 45.8 deg, on Friday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 28.3 deg. The mean daily range was 20.8 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point and air was 9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 72, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind was in the southwest on the first two days', then in the north-west, and afterwards in the north-east. The amount of rain was 0.13 in., which fell on Sunday, accompanied with thunder.  The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr Glatter, were 338 and 345 in the weeks ending the 25th of June and the 2d of July, when the mean temperatures were 66.2 deg, and 67.9 deg. respectively, those at Greenwich having been 68.5 deg. and 571 deg.  In the thirteen weeks that ended the 2d of July the mortality in London was high ; the deaths were 17,316, In the three corresponding quarters of 1860-62 they ranged from about 15,000 to nearly 16,000; in the same quarter of last year they were 17,417. The mean temperature of the air was 53.5 deg., which is the same as it was in the corresponding period of 1862, but higher than in any other spring of 1860 3.  There were 2,798 deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, a higher number than occurred in any spring quarter of the four previous years. The mortality from zymotic diseases was also high ; included 4,325 deaths, of which 116 were from smallpox, 844 from measles, 593 from scarlatina, 143 from diptheria, 198 from croup, 639 from whooping-cough, 783 from typhus, 321 from diar. alma. Measles was the most fatal epidemic disease of the season, and next to it typhus. Measles prevailed chiefly in the east district; it carried off 58 children in the district of Shoreditch, 55 in E2thnalgreen, 37 in Whitechapel, 61 in St. George's-in-the 1 East, 22 in Stepney, 43 in Mile-end Old-town, and 3in Poplar. This disease was also very fatal in Gray's-inn.lane sub district, in Islington, Hackney, and St. Andrew Eastern, Holborn. Of 616 violent deaths 510 were by accident or negligence, 30 by homicide, 75 by suicide, and one by public execution,  Of 2,919 deaths in public institutions, 1,556 were in workhouses, 34 in prisons, 75 in military and naval asylums, 1,181 hospitals, and 74 in lu. natic asylums.