The Sun. — 1865-08-30 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON.  (From .tke Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)  In the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 26, the births in London and ten other large towns of the United Kingdom were 3,820; deaths, 2,567. The annual rate of mortality in the week of those 11 towns was 24 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 947 boys and 969 girls, in all 1,916 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years 1855-64 the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 1874. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,135. It was the 34th week of the year, and the average number for that week was, with a correction for increase of population, 1,290. The deaths returned are less by 155 than the calculated number.  The mortality from diarrhcea was almost exactly the same in amount as that of the previous week, in which it has been shown that there was a great decrease. In the week that ended Aug. 12 the deaths from diarrhcea were 201 ; in the following week, 116 ; last week, 115. The registrar of the Hackney sub-district returned 8 fatal cases of the complaint. The registrars of St. Paul, Deptford, and Rotherhithe returned 5 and 4 respectively. Six deaths were registered as caused by cholera or choleraic diarrhoea, three of which number occurred to adults. A cowkeeper, aged 52, died on the 21st inst., at 10, York-street, Haggerstone, of " cholera (16 hours)." All the 115 deaths from diarrhcea were amongst children, except five cases which occurred to persons aged 60 years and upwards. The mortality from this cause is considerably less than the average in corresponding weeks of former years. In the thirty-fourth week of 1859 the deaths were 215 ; in the same week of last year they were 190.  In High Holborn, a boy, 15 years old, committed eposs state. " He hd been e s , accelerated on t suicide by hanging. A tailor, aged 41 years, died in Hampstead workhouse, of " disease of the kidneys, Two deaths from injury by carriages were re.. gistered :—On 19th August an engineer, aged 42 Years, "running with face against a cab wheel, and adn found heath w at in an a d dying x ur falling (9 hours)," died at Thurlow House, Brixton. On 3d August a carman, aged 60 years, by a waggon, died in Westminster Hospital. The rate of mortality last week was 20 per 1,000 in London, 24 in Edinburgh, and 24 in Dublin ; 30 in Liverpool, 34 in Manchester, 24 in Salford, 26 in Birmingham, 30 in Leeds, 20 in Bristol, 32 in Hull, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 29 per 1,000 during the week ending the sth inst., when. the temperature was 11.6 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 23 per 1,000.  In Liverpool the births were 377, the deaths 272; in Manchester, births 222, deaths 228 ; in Salford, births 80, deaths 52 ; in Birmingham, births 230, deaths 165 ; Leeds, births 200, deaths 130 ; Bristol, births 103, deaths 62 ; Hull, births 69, deaths 63 ; Edinburgh, births 109, deaths 80 ; Glasgow, births 320, deaths 234 ; and, in Dublin, births 194, deaths 146. There were 316 deaths in Vienna during the week ending the sth inst.  At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.692 in. The reading fell to 29.30 in. on Wednesday, and. rose to 30.14 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air was 61.7 deg., which is 1.1 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 5.8 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 82, complete saturation being represented by 100, which point was actually attained on Wednesday, on which day rain fell to the amount of 1.79 in. -The min-fall in the week was 1.96 in. On Wednesday rain fell almost uninterruptedly (at times with extraordinary violence) from eight o'clock in the morning till nine in the evening ; but this heavy fall was confined to the southern parts of the country. On Sunday, the 20th, rain fell at Clifton to the amount of 1.44 in.