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.

Zymotic Diseases 1,936 .... 223 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 591 .... 55 Tubercular Diseases 1,776

190 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,28. .... 113 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 327 .... 41 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,972 .... 281 • Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 614 ...• 71 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc

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9 • Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c 107

11 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones. Joints, Ste Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 84

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Malformations Premature Birth 22 239

2 as Atrophy 166 • • • . 22 Age ' Sudden 704 133

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Violence, Privation, Cold, andIntemperance 244 .... 29 Total (including unspecified causes) 19,353

1,148 Ten Weeks Week.

01'1841-50. of 1851.