MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in•the Metampolis for the week ending an Saturday last: the first column of figured Nerees7die aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding -weeks of the ten• pteriteus years.

Ten Weeks of 1339-49.

Eymotie Diseases

Week. of 1860.

Dropsy,. Cancer, and other diseases of aneartithior variable seat

302 ....

41 Tubercular Diseases .1,671 ..... .. 146 Dist-Imes of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Scum 1,041 .... ' 97 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 279 ..... 38 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,390 .... . 120 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestiou .194 .... 49 Diseases of the Kidneys, Se..

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Be 117

Rheumatism, diseases of thellones,4oluts,&c

Diseases of the SkinCellulaatissue, eke..

, 62 12

Malformations 19 .... 3 Premature Birth 213

Atrophy 153

Age Sadden

51800126

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22

Violence, Privation, Cold, and intemperance

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Total (including unspecified causes) ..........

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9,908

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• 845

The deaths were 171 fewer than the calculated expectancy of the week. The births were 1362-42 fewer than the average of the corresponding weeks in the five years 1845-9.

The mean atmospheric pressure at. Greenwich was 29-519 inches; mean temperature 42.3'-3' lower than the average.