MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
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.
55 264 64 14 10 13 2 32 18 45 25 70
Total (Including unspecified causes) 11,555 1,196 In the first two weeks of December, the deaths were 1004 and 1090; the week before last and last week they were 1166 and 1196: the last two re- turns were both somewhat swelled by Coroners' reports of the month and quarter ; but the real increase of mortality is considerable, and is attributed to the weather, which has been unfavourable to public health. The excess last week was chiefly among persons of the middle age.
Ten Weeks Week of 1839-49. of 1850. Zymotie Diseases 2,336 .... 232 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat. • 522 .... 42 Tubercular Diseases 1,740 .... 173 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,318 .... 98 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ....
Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration .. • • 2,292 • •. • Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion .. • 632 ....
Diseases of the Kidneys, Ac 116 • • • • Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, .ke 149 ....
Rheumatism, diseases of th-. Bones, Joints, Ac so .•.. Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Ac 14 • • • . Malformations 92 .
Premature Birth 242 • • • • Atrophy 144
Age 721 .......
Sudden 280 .... Violence, Privation, Cold, andIntemperance 503 • . • .
Average of Ten Weeks. Last Week. (194tits.)
From birth to fifteen years 512 514 From fifteen years to sixty 423 378 At sixty and upwards 232 260
Among children, hooping-cough, diarrhoea, and smallpox, were on the in- crease.
At Greenwich the mercury of the barometer measured more than 30 inches every day except Wednesday; the mean of the week was 30.192. Mean temperature, 38-3.
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