The Sun. — 1860-02-29 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON LURING THE WEEK.  (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) The sickness which is now so generally diffused throughout, the metropolitan population,eontinues to develop itself in a high rate of mortality. deaths registered in London, which rose in The the previousl week to 1,454, increased in the weekthatenced last Saturday (Feb. 25), whet: the deaths of 1,500 persons were registered. In the ten years 1850.59 the averaga number of deaths in the corresponding week was 1,227 ; bat as the deaths returned. last week occurred in an increased population, the average to admit of comparison should bo raised proportionally to the increase, namely, to 1,349. It appears, therefore, that the deaths oflast week exceeded by 151 the number which the average rate of mortality would have produced. The births registered exceeded the deaths by 464. Of the 1,500 deaths, 724 occurred under 20 years of' age, 188 in the period 20 to 40 years, 228 at 40 to 60, 291 at GO to 80, and 63 at the age of 80 and upwards. Of these. six were deaths of nortogenarians ; and the widow of a hatter, residing in Friarstreet, Southwark, had attained, it is said, the age of 101 years. Of 1,500 deaths, 256 are referred in the returns to the zymotic class of diseases, 271 to the constitutional, 728 to the local, 171 to the developmental class, and 42 to violence. Of the 42 under the last head, 38 were accidental, two were by homicide, and .2 by suicide. The deaths from bronchitis, which in the previous week were 250, were almost precisely the same last week, the number being 231. From pneumonia (inflammetion of the lungs) 131 persons died, and from phthi-is, or consumption,. 171. In the zymotic class small-pox proved fatal in 39 cases, while scarlatina carried off 33 persons, diphtheria 15, typhus and common fever 22, and whooping-cough as many as 63 children, the 13 UM. her dying in the preceding week from this disease being 40. A commercial traveller is reported, to have died from a shock togtelmieer:,etrovfouuslesyhdit,9ae ow girls, occasioned by witnessing a railway accident ; he h 37 ever, suffered from enlar rt. Last week the births of 977 bo •weeksof the in all 1,964 children, were registered3.and years in essrod 5n9. In the ten corresponding theAatetehreagßei,nyramllobebas•earyNa.astlol,73r3B. height of the barometer. in ili'letawe :11:11rieurshdizgl highest baronet; ieal Ic Greenwich,m2t9l776mBe in.an y, when it was Wilt' h reading occurred on temperature of the air in the week vtra,s 34.5ethigea,nwhichis 4.3 deg below the average et the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaishtr). The mean daily temperature was below the average on every day except Sunday, and on Friday the depression was as much as 7 6 deg. The highest point attained was 24.3 deg. on Friday night. The range of the week was therefore 23 7 eeg. The mean daily range was 131 deg. The difference between the mean dew,point temperature and the mean air temperature was 5.4 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 82, complete saturation being represented by 100. The mean temperature ef the water of the Thames was 36.8 deg. The direction cf the wind was variable. Rain fell in small quantity in the early part of the week.