The Sun. — 1852-08-02 (London, England)

STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The deaths in the spring quarter were 100,813, and the mortality was at the rate of 2.227 per cent. per annum, which is slightly above the average of the districts, comprising chiefly small towns and country season. The excess of deaths was chiefly in the town districts, which still maintain their fatal preeminence over the country in destroying the lives of the population. The rate of mortality in the 506 parisoes, was 2.052; in the 117 town districts, 2.436 ; so that out of the same population, for every four deaths in the districts where the air and water are comparatively pure, there are nearly five deaths in London and our other towns, where all the sanitary arrangements are still left so imperfect that no improvement sensibly affecting the rate of mortality has hitherto been effected. In the three months that have elapsed, 48,357 deaths have been registered in the town districts in the place of 40,000, who would have died if the mortality had not exceeded two per cent. ; a standard of salubrity by no means high or unattainable. The season has been unusually cold, but find has been abundant, and from the notes of the registrars generally it may be inferred that the people are actively employed. In London 13,173 deaths were registered in 13 weeks; 2,828 were ascribed to zymotic diseases, 443 to violence, privation, ecold, or intemperance. 19 deaths were caused by poisons, 5 by laudanum, 3 by oxalic acid, 3 by essential oil of almonds, and 2 by prussic acid. Two of the deaths were ascribed to overdoses of laudanum; the others were cases of suicide, and included 7 males, 4 females, of ages rangingott's from 18 to 70. One death was referred to Cu oil, one to improper medicine, one to lead (a age 36), and three to poisoning by accident. It is gratifying to observe that no case of death by arsenic has been registered in London. Of intemperance 39 of delirium tremens ; of privation &cation 78, drowning 59, fractures and contu sions 121, wounds, gunshot and others, 19, other violence 15. and su geared, childeasiaa tireee l dy, Smallpox, scarlatina, pooping-cough, and typhus pBio ledr,s, 20 died, have prevailed to some extent, not only in London many parts of the country; and persons, with about to visit strange districts in obtain information from the notes of the registrar or by local inquiries, which years old, may prevent their exposure to local epidemics. sfbactiamtricilhni e s ,0 fw hhoe areai tb, w ij 1 The following is one example, among many, of the seinffi'aelialle:°otxolifwe'sV:ll33inEatitieokina:—Btleigh—A case introduced in March last into aof virulent have suffered, and its fatality has been thicklypopulated pert of this town from Plymouth (where gre numbersby . clothes brought hither, and worn by a aboutpassed ll tfilivreough the diqeese. No other case ap• Rookery vs who took the infection, but ethacecjiunvaeteedileto the number of 400, or nearly a population having been immediately has already been effected by the enfifth of the whole." sanitary regulations in the lodgingcountry. The registrar Of North St. -fGh°oiral:celseseunissceaho3,ls—tohf?, There is a decrease of one-fifth in the compared with those of the corresponding quarter of last Year, which I attribute-to the sanitary arrangements enferced by the police, in making the of the houses in Church-lane and the deaths as whitewash and cleanse them, and not allowinga certain number of persons to sleep in the The registrars of St. Anne's, Nottingham, and of Cardiff, in South Wales, have recorded similar good effects from the supervision of the low I d i ..0...g.ng. houses. lodgainlagov.heoses. Public attention has been before called in these the large towns of the country, and more particularly periodical reports to the neglect and il'-usage of children in Lancashire, where the mortality of in five years of e ' healthiest counties, and much higher than it age is twice as high ae it is in Loud°n• icgh ii children rt el2ne under  .6E:eeßn success ally passed off on ANK UP' ENGLAND, During the past v.rek or two several forged 51. notes Ft: different tradesmen of the city of Bristol. The police, on being informed of this fact, instituted in-' quirks, and the result was tho apprehension of -man nsmed James Fle-tcher, of very gentlemanly appea„nee and plausible manners. Ile has bean brought before the Bristol bench of magistrates I-1 BankG E ol 7f. 127., e : land tI N have l' l charged with uttering. forged 5/. Bank of England note; tt._ the shops of miss Rill, haberdasher, St. Augustine's ptuacie; Znd Mr., Morgan, linendraper, Clifton. From the official investigation there can be little doubt that he is one of a gang of utterers of forged Bank of England notes who have for many mouths past successfully " carried on business in the counties of Somerset and Devon, South Wales. &c. Till within the last week or two the mode of operation of the gang was to attend various fairs held in the rural districts' disguised as horse dealers. They would then purchase horses of the country farmers, and pay for them partly in genuine sovereigns, and partly in forged notes, and, of course, almost immediately afterwards they would wake off with their purchases. Many of these frauds came to the knowledge of the police, but the perpetrators contrived to elude their vigilance. No doubt encourage by their success they determined to try their luck at Bristol, and it is known to the detective force of that city that on Thursday and Frictoy there were no less Wan four of them "at work" among the tradespeople of 8ri...c., and the fashionable vicinil of Clifton. The prisoner Fletcher is shown -to have made triflirg purchases in va. rious planes, and to have tendered forged notes. in payment thereof. After his departure from one shop the a te was dicovered to be a forgery. Information was given to a police. eoneablo 15 ho wa.s passing, who pursued, and attar a chat@ of about a mile succeeded in capturing him. During the chase he managed to throw away a pocket-book, in which it is supposed he kept the forged rotes. }le stands remanded fur further inquiritss to be made. and it is hoped that the whole of his corn. panious will shortly he; in the custody of the police. _ ._:---------...._.  A