29 JUNE 1850, Page 20

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.

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

Tea Weeks of 1839-49.

Week. of 1856.

Zymotic Diseases Hilo .... 161 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 458

52 Tubercular Diseases

1508

149 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1115 •••• 91 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-veuels 258 • • • • 27 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 944 • • • • 108 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 602 • • • • 54 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc

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11 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc 85 • • • •

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Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc at • • . •

7

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 5 . • • .

Malformations 23 ....

Premature Birth 200 ....

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Atrophy 152 • • • •

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Age

431 • • • •

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Sudden 119 • • • • 7 Violence, Privation, Cold, andIntempemnee 341 ...• 20

Total (Includingummeelfled causes) 8635 775

The mortality is still unprecedentedly low : 775 deaths are fewer than have ever occurred in one week except in 1841 and 1842; the past aveme has been 864, and the prospective corrected average should be 943. The deaths by consumption were never so low-102 only.

The mean barometric pressure was 30 inches; the mean temperature 53 degrees.