The Sun. — 1858-04-28 (London, England)

WEEK. ,  The deaths (Pr°n' the he registerede Report tt nil e R London were eliisirar. ae n' 6211. ),144 in aa vdeercargeea sneu on ant) ~,trh oosredeoaf tttfhateil)nr. et v.hei'miveewk:ck;wrrehs; 7. In the ten year. st:lB' 48-57 the the week ending Saturday, h ; they show onthde.:- number was 1,20 jug will last week was 1,054;- but the deaths of last week occurred in an increased - • population,. arid. '- -they should be co spared with the average, when the latter has been raised in proportion to thecrease, 'a correction which will make it 1,159.' The ,ate of mortality that now prevails,- therefore, agrees very closely with that which is obtained by • talcu!ation from former experience in the third, • • week of April. Of the 1,144 deaths returned last weak, 1,138.. are distributed amongst the five classes, in which. all the causes of death are arranged, in. the follow ing numbers :-262 are referred to umotic diseaSes, the corrected average of which in corres, ponding weeks is 260 ; 237 are referred to the class of "constitutional diseases," the average of which is also 260 ; 477 to "local diseaseP," of which the' average is 466 ; 139 to " developmental divases," the average being 131 ; and 23 to mechanical and chemical injuries, the average being 18. Of the 23 violent deaths, 22 are accidental of these 9 are caused by fractures and wounds, 3 by bums, one by poison; 3 by drowning, 6 (a!1 of which, exeept one, ere deaths.olinfants) by suffocation.. Theonlyi 'death not accidental is a case of suicide bybangittga The deaths, arising from bronchitis and pneumonia, • which in the previous week wite reipectivelyl3o and 103, declined last week to 120 and 62. Eighty-one children died of hooping-cough,' a consid.rably higher mortality than occurred in any corresponding .weak of ten years, except that of 1854, when the deaths from this complaint were 83. looping-cough is at present twice as fatal as either measles or scarlat;na. Tile'deaths flora measles are not so numerous as they were in some previous. weeks. Forty deaths are referred. to scarlatina ; no less than 4 of these occurred in one family in a house on the top of Stiootet'a-hill. The Registrar states that to Ihecasual observer there is nothing in that elevated situation which would be noticed as the probable cause of so great a mortality; but it is understood that medical men attribute it to tin open ditch in the neighbouthood. One child died ou the 12th inst., ono on the 14th, and two oth is on Va.* follawiug day. Six aersons died last week at the age of 90 years and upwards • the two oldest were a woman Newington W'orkhouse, 98 years old, and the widow of a dock labourer in Redman 's-row, Mileend.ol,l Town, who is said t) have died at the age of 101 years. Last we ,k the bir.hs of 894 boys and 916 gills, in all 1810 children were registered in London. In the ten cern spending wee's of the years 1848-57 the average number was 1,51. At the Rayal Olaterratory Greenwich, the readings of the barometer were high. The mean re tding of the week was 30.351 in. The highest reading was 30.27 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of the week was 52 8 deg., which is 5.8 deg. above the average of the carne week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temp-rate was above the averige throughout the week. The range of t.:,mporature was above the averaae throughout the week. The range of temperature was great on every day, and its mean was 29.2 deg. On Wednesday the therrnoneter in the shade rose to 71.1 deg., and fell to 38.1 deg. The highest point attained in the week was 72.9 deg. on Thursday ; the lowest paint was 31.3 dt g on Monday. The extreme range was therefore 133-9 deg. The diff,rence between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 10 deg. The ratun temperature of the water of the Thames was 53 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the atmosphere was only 65 ; on Saturday it was only 59, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind blew from an easterly point, No rain fell.