The Sun. — 1852-07-09 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDONDUR.ING THE IVE.EK. (From the Itegister-General's Report ) The deaths registered in the metropolitan districts in the week that ended last Saturday amounted to 987, a number nearly the same as in the previous week. The returns of bath weeks represent rather more than the actual mortality in the two periods, being augmented, as ususlly occurs at the end of a quarter, by coroners' cases that properly belong to antecedent dates. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1842.51 the average number of deaths was 897, which, if raised in proportion to the increase of population, becomes 987. Hence it appears that the number of deaths returned last week is precisely equal to the calculated amount. The mortality arising from diseases of the respiratory organs has decrettEedfrom 110 in the preceding week to 91 in the last, which nearly agrees with the average of corresponding weeks. Fatal cases arising from zymotic complaints have also decreased from 215 to 187, while the corrected average is 239. Last week the deaths recorded as caused by small-pox were 31, five of which were among persons of mature age. Scarlatina destroyed the lives of 33 children; typhus, remittentni iddfleevieirie, ncd. , otfh7o as; of advanced 13 n age, children, of 24 persons in in all 44. Two one children died of syphilis; of noma. Three deaths were registered that occurred in the Small-pox Hospital, of which the following are the para  iculars:— femaleerr: dv servant fromo fi, sCmaani l n- ipt i "small -, p 1c a oc ne ~ Vaccinated in Cork, fiKueOeninisti,n2g7utleihzeT,oudanigtieeedda 2(016yray5).„ woman; one imperfect cicatrix. when 10 years old, v b. afemule shoe-binder from Saffron:mall-pox, confluent, unprotected, (12 clays)." 2128 tyheaJrus,n2 female servant from Lower CravenhilOl,angthede On 29th June a aged -keeper, place, Kentish-town, '' years, l""" PDX, confluent, unprotected (7 days). ,Ton_the, died of " smallnoway, on 3d July, the daughterAt 6, James Lodge, ll° aged 4 Wr.hiNeVhaettesulmd mentions that of a horse pox (8 days), no that " tha mother by some . deceased infant was suckled at accounted for, had taken small-pox, though she had been vaccinated, and the her breast; the husbandan,daneloder daughjtuenre,hathvee also taken the disease, though both had been vaccinated." d teAatu glhl,Sr of a uff ol kstreet, labourer, King s-cross, n 29th aged, 4 months, died of "confluent smallpox "(9 days): The medical attendant of this case adds: " This child, in my opinion, was lost in consequence of the mother refusing to have it vaccinated when the small-pox first broke out in the house. So long as vaccination is a voluntary act, so long will all-pox be prevalent with the poor, particularly the Irish." In the sub-district of Amwell, at 4, Lwk'sgardens, on 28th June, the son of a br,:zier, aged one year, died of " variola confluent (10 da3 s)." Mr. Squire stltea that " this child had not been vaccinated, a cit.cumstanee which the mother regretted, as two other children in the family, who had been vaccinated, are now recovering from the disease," In the sub-diarist of Mile-end, Old Town Lower, et 9 Ernest-street, on 25th June, the son of a labourer, died of " variola conflaens (12 days)." The deceased (says Mr. CiAlocien) was 20 months old, and vaccinated three weeks ago, when smll-p,x was in the house, and when it attacked onn after another live children, all of whom had been vaccinated, and all recovered. Mr. Gorham, the registrar of Kerrsiegton, regTect_sZ state that smallpox still prevails in his distriet,tillaw,inhe. he has used every exertion in his power to urrpgoes und cessity of vaccination (in most cases to no , n Fist sub, gion to his own family. contain the prosecution of his duty he has brought the of 'sling.° red in the I 'Air. Butterfield, the regidrar deaths registe district, says:—Out of 216 3ook p d 1 bee un er 5 quarter ending 30th June, 11 t or about 12 per cent, 12 under that ine;rgest number iegiatered years of age; from ull-pos, being ;,4 tl to childhood. Scarlatina • • 0,0303 under an,y diJease inn numbered 10. Orchard- street, North-end, on 30q1 In Fulham, at 5, 3 months, died of "diarrhoea, , ed June, a gir,, 15).,, This neighbcuchood, says Qtr, dysentery (2 webadif drained. Knight, is vewere caused by carbuncle in the week; death.aroin Three ii_gwree—n, on 27th June, a labourer, aged 43 they are 1 At ciliri_d of " debility; carbuncular inflammation (2 years, „vAt 28, Wyndham street, Marylebone, on 28th eks)- we a spinster, aged 58 years, " extensive carbuncular ciJiusenae,'e (2 months)." At St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, on 27th June, a furrier, aged 48 years, from 4, Bridgewater' gardens, Barbican, " carbuncle (3 weeks); asthenia" (Pest rnort.). This disease has ben fatal to 28 persons during the 27 weeks of the present year. A boy, agA 12 years, was found dead on 20th June in the Surrey Canal. He drowned himself from fear of returning home, having surreptitiously left his home in consequence of a necessary correction received from his mother three days before. (Inquest.) Three persons died from intemperance, besides tour cases in which it led to Q, fatal termination by suicide or other means. A woman died of dropsy at the great age of 104 years.