The Sun. — 1858-06-10 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE  WEEK.  (Front the Report of the Registrar General.) The deaths registered in Loudon, which rose in the previous week to 1,108, declined in the week ending last Saturday, June sth, to 1,087, of which 583 are deaths of males,. 554 those of females. In the ten years 1848-57-the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 964 ; but as the deaths returned for last week occurred in an increased population, they can only be compared with the average when the latter has been raised in proportion to the increase, a correction which will make it 1,060. The comparison sitar that the mortality of last week exceeds that which is obtained by calculation from former experience at the beginning of June, but that the excess IS not considerable.  Zymotic diseases increased last week, as regards the number of fatal cases, from 259 to 291 (the corrected average for last week being MO This increase arises from measles, the deaths from Which in the last two weeks were respectively 45 and 621 from whooping-cough, which was fatal in 61 and 69 cases ; from typhus, which was fatal in 32 and 43 ; and from diarrhoea, which was fatal in the two weeks in 14 and 18 cases. Six children died from measles in the sub-district of Greenwich Weer. An old man died on the 2d inst. from cholera, after six days' illness, in Smith-square, Westmill" ster. Twelve women died from diseases incidental to childbearing ; 20 children died from having been born prematurely ; 16, of whom nine were a year old, died from teething ; 44 from caw vulsions. Twenty violent deaths were registered, 16 of which were accidental, and four by suicide (all of these last by hanging). A woman, aged 90 years, and five men, aged 90 years and.upwards; were returned, the two oldest having beenTesPee' tively 97 and 103 years. The centenarian had been formrly a sergeant in the Foot Guards, and had served in the Walcheren expedition and Peninfuler campaigns, and was pensioned previously to the battle of Waterloo. He possessed remark:able physical strength, and retained his mental fainni" ties to the last. Latterly he followed the occuPe' tion of a tailor ; he died on the 25th ult. at Bridge' field-place Wandsworth. His medical attendsrit) who supplies most of the above particulars, has seen the certificate of his birth, now in the posses' sion of his daughter, which runs thus :—" Sohn Ewing, born 16th October, 1745, at Carronshereo parish of Larbert, shire of Stirling. Extracted firers the record. John Bunce, clerk." Last week the births of 765 boys and 780 gitrlss in all 1,545 children, were registered in Loneorb In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848' 57 the average number was 1,465. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.8941e' The lowest barometrical reading was 29.64 in. 09, Thursday • the highest was 30.01 in., and occurred on the following day. The mean temperature of the week was 66.2 deg., which exceeds by nearl7 10, deg. the average of the same week in 43 years (es' determined by Mr. Glaisher.) On Monday and tiler, three following days the mean daily temperature was from 1.1 to 14 deg. in excess of the average:' On Tuesday the thermometer attained its highest' point in the shade, which was 85 deg., and also its highest in the sun, which was 119.5 deg. The lowest temperature occurred on Sunday, 30th ult., and was 50.1 deg. The entire range in the week in the shade was, therefore, 34.9 deg. The mean dart range was 24.7 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 62.1. The difference be' tween the mean dew-point temperature and a.it temperature was 10.70 deg. The mean humidity.; of the air was 68, complete saturation being eepredi sented by 100 ; on Monday the humidity was oaf 58. Rain to the amount of 1.16 in. fell on SAILr" day. A severe thunder storm with vivid lightning' occurred between six and eight o'clock on Sat.a," day morning. An oak in Greenwich-park was strue'b , by the lightning and stripped of a portion of its bark. Rain fell to the depth of an inch in less than an hour. Hail also fell during the storm.