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MORTALITY IN TILE METROPOLIS.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis

for the week ending on Saturday last.

Ten Weeks Week. of of 1841-50. 1851. Zymotic Diseases 1,672 .... 232 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 507 • .. • 40 Tubercular Diseases

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 11t2 .........:. 16:!

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 311 .... 36

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,334 .... 197 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 583

Diseases of the Kidneys, .te 96 .... 12

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &e 101 . • • • 12

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c 72 • • • • 10 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c 9 .... 2

Malformations 15 5

Premature Birth 172 .... 29 Atrophy 136 .... 24

Age 520 .... 45

Sudden 124 • .• • 7 Violence,Privation, Cold, andIntemperance 214 .... 22 Total (including unspecified causes) 9.036 1,076