Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1886-08-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUMMER ITEALTH RESORTS.  The mean death-rate during the three month, ending June last in thellPprincipal English watering-places and health-resorts did not exceed 15-6 per 1000 of their present population, estimated by the Registrar-General at 1,150,000 persons. In the corresponding quarter of the three preceding years, 1083-4-5, the mean death-rate in these towns had been 17-8, WO, and 161 per 1000 respectively. The lowest rates during the three months under notice were recorded in Littlehampton, Malvern, Isle of Wight, Hastings, Clifton, and Eastbourne. The highest death rates among these watering-places last quarter were returned in Penzance, Dartmouth, Bangor, Exmouth, and Lynn Regis. No death from any of the principal zymotic diseases was recorded during the quarter in Littlehampton, Weston-super-Mare, or Tenby ; and only one in Whitby, Bognor, Lyme-Regis, Teign. mouth, Ilfracombe, Malvern, and Buxton. In the other towns the highest zymotie death-rates were recorded in Lowestoft, Worthing, Eastbourne, Southend, Folkestone, and Evmouth. The zymotic rate in these 46 towns did not exceed 0.97 per 1000, and was considerably below the general zymotic rate in England end Wales, as well as the mean rate in the 20 large English towns during the same period. The remarkable freedom from scarlet fever enjoyed by these watering-places at the present time is a noteworthy feature • only 11 fatal cases of this disease were recorded in the 46 health resorts during the quarter, of which six occurred in Yarmouth. Nine deaths were referred to measles in Exmouth, and five in Blackpool; diphtheria caused four deaths in Folkestone, four in Brighton, and four in Blackpool , whi'e fever was proportionally most prevalent in RAmsgoate, and whooping-cough in Scarborough, Lowestoft, and Eastbourne.-71e Sanitary Record.  Joint. exhibition coheres for next year spread rapidly in the North. Now Newcastle intends to open an International and Colonial Collection on May 26, 1887, and has already secured a site of eleven acres within a mile of the Central Station. Most interesting here will he the full-working model of a coal mine. showing both the under-ground pit workings and those above ground, and the examples of machinery employed in modern engineering and naval architecture. Manchnster has also chosen the ground for her Jubi'ee Exhibition—a site connected with the Botanical Cardms. between Trebot and Chester roads, Old Trafford. Like London and Edinburgh, Manchester will reproduce her city of bygone days in a street of Old Manchester and Salford.. The gimmteee fund of SlOO,OOO has been subscribed, while the expenses of the exhibition building are putat £32,633. Ton biggrat bailout in the world is claimed hy the United States. It has been built at San Francisco, to cross the American continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and the inventor asserts that if he roe-bee the proper stratum of a'r he will travel rapidly eastwards. possibly at the rate 01 100 miles per hour. He fears, however, that the Rocky Mountains may obstruct his journey, to the atmospheric currents change in their neighbourhood. The balloon is 119 feet high, including the car, with a diameter of 68 feet, while the car wiil carry 15 persons. As open.air meeting in support of the Irish Parliamentary Fund has been held at Chicago. The speeches were of the same kind as those made at the Convention.  Inc Queen has conferred commissions on the following soldiers : Colour-sergeant Kenneth JAL Campbell, of the Gloucestershire Regimont, who is appointed to a vacant lieutenancy in the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment); and Sergeant-major Arthur Carsda.e., of the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) promoted to the rank of quartermaster. Both the new officers enlisted in the army as private soldiers. A NAVAL engineer, named Carroll, belonging to Pembroke, who has been stationed at Chatham Dockyard, made a determined effort to commit suicide at his residence the other morning. He was found with his throat terribly cut, and was removed to Melville Hospital, where he lies in a precarious condition. Carroll, who has seen much foreign service, has lately teen under medical treatment, having suffered in his brad.