MORTALITY IN TIlE 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.

Ten Weeks of 1830-49.

Week. of 1850.

Symotic Diseases 2,2.57 .... 206 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 480 .... 37 Tubercular Diseases

1,648

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,103 .... 101 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 309 .... 47 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,638 ....

171

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion

611 .... 58 Diseases of the Kidneys, Ac 76 .... 11 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, he 120 .... 5

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &..c

77 ....

8

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, he 11 .... 1 Malformations 19 .... 3 Premature Birth 237 • • • •

Atrophy 159

Age 509

55 Sudden 95 .... 5 Violence, Privation, Cold, andIntemperanee 217 .... 17

Total (including unspecified muses) 9,532 921 The mortality was greater than that of last week by 24 deaths ; but was still 130 deaths below the calculated expectancy. The deaths by consumption continue unusually few; the deaths of old persons are more numerous than usual. The mean height of the mercury in the barometer was 30.104; the mean temperature. was 50.2`.-4° higher than the average. The wind was generally South-west.