The Express. — 1860-10-10 (London, England)

HEALTH OP LONDON.  TM mealy return Wined by the RegistrarGag slake that in the week that *dad lest Sisturday 1,075 deaths were nigiatered number shows but. vm7 trilkag• of the previous week. lithe deaths la mtlfritaitell mem ore compared with tbe aromas d hie Mask 1/ October, as i obtained hens the pads= irk yams be MOM, it will he sea that the pails health, es tested by the tomishty, is in •1,11.41161,011rai1l lIMIsll-poz maid off 6 children, mauler 52, scarlatina also Si, fththeffa 13 There were 5 deaths from scarlatina in Bast. Twe widows died, oft ea the age of 99 eased IN pen, the latter at 7 Castle-alley, • 81st, aged three months,died d " erysipZisi week after vocalization r a boy,:zged weeks, of Od irritation from impure milk. A sugar-baker, =years, was suffocated a charcoal eiders. And a aged 60 yeses, was destroyed me. by' gestated hYdaPpa, slam at mark in • pa p isiesk the births of 982 boys and 334 girls, is all 1,816 children, were rerghterad in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the yams 186049 the average number was 1,465. At the Royal Obstinately, Greenwich, the mean height of the heron:o4er in the week wee 30.088 in. The mean reading wee above 30 in. oa five days. The highest point attained was 30.28 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 51.9 deg., which is 1.3 deg. below theaveregeof the same week in 43yeare (as determined k lThill..(llashier). The mean temperature of the wateredthe was 54.2 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 85, complete saturation being represented IT 100. The wind blew ham the west and north-west ; no the last three days from the south-west and west. No raja was mssand in the week. In the thirteen weeks that ended on Saturday, September 29, 12,916 deaths were registered in London. That this mortality is relatively very low will be manifest when it is added that last quarter fewer penises died by 1,160 than in the same period of 1856, fewer by 1,343 than an 1857, fewer by 1,429 than in 1858, and fewer by 3,094 then in 1859. It will further be observed, that as the popalation bas lammed, the smelled number at deaths was obtained from the largest population. In once of the coldness of the rummer, and the unusual quantity of rain, the diarrhom that carries off mealy hundreds of young children at that season was comparatively idle. The mean temperature of the air in the quarter was 56.8 deg., which is Ave degrees less then the- average of tour mirrespending quarters (1856-9), and six degrees less than it was in the atone period of last year. In concurrence with this decrease of heat the deaths from diarrheas and cholera, which were 2,920 in the tame quarter of 1859, fell to 788 lad quarter. Certain other epidemics visibly declined ; for in the same periods smallpox numbered respectively 287 and 90 ; ecariativa, 778 and 471; diphtherit, 190 and 71 ; typhus, 502 and 311 ; dysentery, 104 and 28 ; and remittent fever, 33 and 13. But award &seams in the same elms (the medic) were mom fatal ; for eamparteg din the ensuner quarters at 11111411brolem rem fee. au to ere; whooping-cough trent Se PRO ; rissumaliksa cast lever from 58 to 76. helm& of 172 ideals who died in the summer el last year from gnat bresiet milk, ably 100 died last quarter sad indeed of Ribs= Sulah, only 30. The greater colds= d OW wither ismeemeed the mortality of pulmonary campisiale • him deaths Arse bronchitis, which in four corrardissilltireenstroWild from 474 to 562, were in the parlor PA IV, mad those from pneumonia, while tallolled tram la 381, were 808. Those hum diaseats of the base also roe eaniderably, end were 610. From • MANI at the above resishe' of the quarter it will be obvious that a great portion, if not the whole, .of that improvement is the public health, which is implied in • reduction of the total mortality, has fallen to children, end these chiefly of tender W. Measles was considerably more fatal in the eastern group el diatricta than in an other of the tire divisions ; the subdistrict of St. Mary t. Gaon:o4E46o-3RA) was the chief mat of the disease. e east dietricts bad also more than their proportionate shored diarritaa. 01 414 deaths by mime% 386 were the consemeence of aoudad or negligence, 30 were cams of murder or inanaldmhter, 79 of suicide, and ow was by public axecuffed.  TBB AIURDIR 11341 NEWC4III74f: