Beaune of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis
for the week ending on Saturday last-
Number of Autumn Deaths. Average. Zymotio Diseases 372 .... 307 DrePsY, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 56 .... 49 Tubercular Diseases 157 .... 178 Diseases of the Wain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 88 . 125 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 34 40
Diseases or the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 138 214 52 eS Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion
12 11 Diseases of the Kidneys. &c 13 Hi Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c..
Rheumatism, diseases of the /Jones, Joints, itc 8 6 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Am 1 1 4 Malformations 39 23 Premature Birth
35 18
Atrophy ' 1 '57 Age _It 19 Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 14 36 Total (Including unspecified causes) 1075 1162
' "In the week ending last Saturday, the total number of deaths registered was 1,075; the weekly average derived from deaths in the autumnal quarter (which commences with the present month) of five previous years is 1,162; the weekly return, therefore, now exhibits a decrease on the average, after a period of more than three months daring which it has shown a considerable and in eleven eon_ gently° weeks an enormous excess above the usual rate of mortality. The de_ crease is observed in the West, North, and Central divisions; the mortality in the East and South, where the deaths from cholera are still the most numerous, is about the average. The deaths from cholera in the last week were 110; in five previous weeks they were 2,026, (the highest number which, exclusive of those from diarrhoni, the epidemic attained,) 1,682, 839, 434, 288. In last week the deaths from diarrhrea and dysentery (the mortality of which is more steadily maintained) were 105,-almost as numerous as deaths from cholera, and eon_ siderably more than usual at this advanced season of the year. The aggregate deaths from these three kindred diseases were therefore 215; while the weekly average ia only 85. During last week the daily number of deaths from cholera. averaged 16; on Wednesday they were only 11. In the districts of St. Jame& (Westminster), Islington, St. Giles (Holborn), Camberwell, and Rotherhithe, no deaths from cholera were registered during the week. In Kensington there were 6; in Hackney, 5; in Bethnal Green, 7; in Shoreditch, 12; in Poplar, 5; is St_ Saviour, 6 ; in Bermondsey, 6; in St. George (Southwark), Lambeth, Wands- worth, 7 each ; and in Greenwich, 8. In all other districts the mortality from the epidemic did not range higher than four deaths. All other epidemics are at. present under the average; smallpox and measles remarkably low: but scarlatina . becomes more fatal, the deaths having risen from 39 in the previous week to '66 in the last, the average being 64. Typhus was fatal in 47 cases." " The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.540 in.; the mean. temperature was 46° 7', which is 4° 7' less than the average of the same week in seven years; it also shows a decrease on the mean of the previous week of 50n The direction of the wind was variable during the first three days, and its mean direotion was North-east daring the last four days.
The daily returns of cholera and diarrhea& cases show the continuous abatement- of the disease. In London, the cases have been during the days of this week, 12, 9, 8, 5, and yesterday 7 ; in the Provinces, 153, 113, 88, 78, and yesterday 66; in Scotland, since Tuesday, 4, 17, 1, and yesterday 8.
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