The deaths from influenza in London during the week ending
last Saturday were down to 183, as against 314, 436, and 506 in the three preceding weeks. The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, which had been 1,465, 1,162, and 761 in the preceding three weeks, further fell to -560 last week, but were 45 above the corrected average. In all, 2,651 births and 2,010 deaths were registered. Allowing for the increase of population, the births were 292 below and the deaths 173 above the average numbers in the corresponding weeks of the last ten years. The annual death-rate per thousand from all causes, which had been 46-0, 41.0, and 30-6 in the preceding three weeks, sank last week to 24.6. In the great towns the same return to healthiness is noticeable. Preston had the highest death-rate-30.6—and Bradford the lowest, 16-6. It is clear that the influenza will have nearly vanished in another month. The question that re- mains is : Will it return—we hear of bad cases in East Yorkshire and in Liverpool—or is the soil in which the poison germ grows exhausted and unproductive ?
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