MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week eliding on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous years.

Zymotic Disease.

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Ten of

Weeks 184140. 1,981 573

.... Week. of 1851.

207 52 Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,874 1,287 • • •• • • . 172 117 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 309 .... 50 Illieases of the Lunn", and of the other Organs of Respiration . 2,131 .... 253 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 634 .... 62

Diseases of the Kidneys, Se

.... 7 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c

10i.

.... 8 Rheumatism, diascs of the Bones, Joints, &c GS • • .• 11 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc

Malformations 31 .... 5 Premature Birth 201

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30 Atrophy 165 .... 25 Age 725 .... 56 Sudden 130 . • • • 5 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 263 .... 42

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Total (including unspecified causes) 10.631

1,109