The Sun. — 1859-04-13 (London, England)

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.  (From the Registrar-General's Report.) In the week ending Saturday the total deaths registered in London were 1,201, and they exhibit an increase of 134 on those of the preceding weekt' In the ten years 1849-58 the average number al deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,151, but as the deaths in the present return 00" curred in a population which has increased, these can only be compared with the average raised in proportion to the increase—namely, with 1,266' The figures show that the deaths of last week woe less by 65 than the number which would have oc• curred under the average rate of mortality for tile first week of April. The deaths from smallpox rose last week to 221 of which number nearly half occurred in the east districts ; those from measles declined to 15. Fiftyeight cases of scarlatina and 13 of diphtheria were fatal. Whooping-cough carried off 61 children! five of these in the sub-district of Somers .town. AT' 14, Catherine-street, Hoxton New-town, three: children have died from scarlatina since the 3d inst., and two others have been attacked by the disease. The medical attendant considers that the severity of the complaint in this instance is due to the bad drainage of the locality. A tailor, aged 79 years, at 5, Back-road, St. George's-in-the-East, was " found dead from want of proper nourishment." Last week the births of 923 boys and 914 girls, in all 1,837 children were registered in Londo_ng In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1849'58 the average number was 1,556. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the ineFi height of the barometer in the week was 29.831,11.?; The barometrical readings underwent very small variations during the first four days: afterwards the lowest was 29.41 inches, the highest 29.5:4 inches. The mean temperature of the week NO!! 56.3 deg., which is 11.1 deg. above the average at the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature was likewise above the average throughout the week; and on Wednesday and Thursday this excess was 15.4 fell to to and its 1. respect.. deg., on vely. The thermometer Tuesday, and rose to its highest, 79 deg., on the following daY' The entire range was, therefore, 35.5 deg. The range was 21.8 deg. The range et' Wednesday lowest degpoint, .1,3 was so much as 33.5 deg. The differencemednnbeedstadalwieyyen the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 9.1 deg. The wind blew °ll, every day from the south-west. The rain measured was 0/0 inch. In the 13 weeks that ended April 2, 16,147 deaths were registered in London, of which 8,160, or rather more than half, occurred under 20 years 0' age. The quarter was healthier than the sarnef period of last year, and much healthier than that of 1855. The mean temperature of the first quarter in the .present year was unusually hih—viz., a deg. ; in that of 1858 it was 38 deg. ;g in 1855, 34.= deg. But, though the recent mortality has been comparatively not great, scarlatina (including diphtheria) has contributed a remarkably ileag proportion, the deaths from it having been 1,1" a while in four corresponding quarters they ranged only from 353 to 705. Smallpox has lately increase'', for whereas the deaths from it in the two quarters of 1857-8 were 60 and 41, in the id. quarter they were 201. Of these 201, 8 oceu're the in the west districts, 38 in the north, 43 who central, 83 iu the east, and 29 in the south. ditch, parts chiefly infested were Finsbury, S:0 W and Bethnal-green. an 525 violent deaths, 436 occurred by accidefat or negligence, 25 by murder or manslaughter, 64 by suicide,