The Sun. — 1868-10-29 (London, England)

THE HEAL7II OF LONDON.  In the week that ended Saturday, 24th October, 4,251 births and 3,169 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, 38 in Edinburgh, and 22 in Dublin ; 10 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 32 in Manchester, 38 in Salford, 25 in Sheffield, 28 in Bradford, 29 in Leeds, 28 in Hull, 25 in Newcastleupon-Tyne, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 25 per 1000 during the week ending the 17th inst., and in Bann 31 per 1,00') during the seven days ending the 22d inst. In London the births of 1,012 boys and 1,022 girls, in all 2,034 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,160. The deaths registered in Landon during the week were 1,427. It was the forty-third week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for the increase of population, 1,3-10. The deaths in the present return exceed by eighty-one the estimated amount. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 331, the corrected average number being 352. Four deaths from small-pox, 19 from measles, 105 from scarlatina, 10 from diphtheria, 21 from whoopingcough, 67 from fever, and 30 from diarrho3a were registered. Five deaths from scarlatina were recorded in the sub-district of Kensington town, 3 in the sub-district of Chelsea south, 3 in the sub-district of Chelsea north-east, 6 in the sub-district of Belgrave, 3 in the sub-district of Kentish-town, 3 in the sub-district of West London south, 5 in the sub-district of Mile-end Old Town east, 3in the sub-district of Bow, 3 in the sub-district of Poplar, 3 in the sub-district of St. Peters, Walworth, 3 in the sub-district of Kennington, first part, and 3 in the sub-district of Woolwich Arsenal. Of the 67 deaths from fever, 19 are registered as typhus, 37 as typhoid or gastric fevcr; and 11 simply as common continued fever. Two deaths from fever were recorded in the sub-district of St. Mary, Paddington, 2 in the sub-district of Kensington-town, in the sub-district of Belgrave, 2 in the sub-district of G-ray's-iunlane, 12 in the sub-district of Islington west (where the London Fever Hospital is situated), 2 in the sub-district of Hoxton Newtown, 5 in the Green sub-district of Bethnalgreen, 2 in the sub-district of St. Mary, and 2 in the sub-district of St. John, St. George-in-theEast, 2 in the sub-district of Limehouse, and 2 in the sub-district of Clapham. 192 deaths occurred from phthisis, 120 from bronchitis, and 77 from pneumonia. Diseases of the brain and nervous system proved fatal to 148 persons, and 80 persons died from disease of the organs of circulation. The deaths of 8 infants from syphilis, of 4 children from burns or scalds, of 5 persons from drowning, of 3 infants and 1 adult from suffocation, and of 5 persons who committed suicide were registered. The widow of a greengrocer, aged 84 years, died on the 19th October, in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, from injuries caused by having been run over by a dray. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.627 in. The barometrical reading decreased from 29-88 in. on Thursday, 22d October to 29.14 in. on Saturday, 21th October. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 42.6 deg., which is 6.3 deg. below the average of the same week iu fifty years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 59.6 deg. on Saturday, 24th October. The lowest night tempe-, rature was 29.3 deg on Tuesday, 20th of October. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 30.3 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 49.8 deg. ; that of the lowest was 47.4 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 2.8 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 90, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.49 in. The general direction of the wind was W.S.W. A gale prevailed throughout the afternoon and evening of Saturday, 24th October ; the greatest pressure of the wind was 281 b. on the squ ►re foot at lh. 12w. p.m., and at Liverpool 381 b. at 61h. p.m. According to a return furnished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the daily average quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames at Crossness was 186,739 cubic metres, and at Barking 85,996 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight.