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 .colionn of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding *take of the ten previous
years. Ten Weeks of 1558. Zymotit Diseases 4288 .... 267 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 410 .... 40 Tubercular Diseases ins .... 16/ Diseases of the Brain,. Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1121 .... 103 Diseases of the Heart and mood-vessels 243 33 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 719 .... 75 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 725 .... 34
Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 74 .... 9
Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c 102 .... 15 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc
Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc..
Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy Sudden
Violence,Pravation, Cold, andIntemperance 276 . „ . .52
— — Total (including unspecified causes) 10,781 882
If the deaths of the corresponding week in 1849 (when 2796 persons died) -be excluded, the aVerage of the c,orrespOnding•weeks sines1840-is 968; the deaths last week were 86 fewer than this number. In!the last week of August 1819, the deaths by cholera were 1663; in the last week of the past month they were only 4; in the week of 1849, the deaths by diarhcea were 234, last week, they were 118. • At Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer was 29-979 inohas.ie muek-higlier then-eflate ; of. the therthometer, 66-91-,--below the aimraga b - '3-5' '; of the the-amender in the Thatheii, 61°.- Wind, Sotitli.teestund N
west, and often stagnant. Rain fell on Monday and Wednesday, but it Was less than one-seventh of an inch, 230 .... .31 209 .... 32 439 .... 33
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