MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last-
Number of Autumn Deaths. Average. Zymotic Diseases 201 .... 307 Dropsy, Cancer, sad other diseases of imeertain or variable seat 43 .... 49 'Tubercular Diseases 366 .... 178 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 108 .... 125 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 33 .... 40 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 134 .... 214 Diseases of the Stomach. Liver, and other organs of Digestion 50 .... Si Diseases of the Kidneys, ace Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, He. Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, AC Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Mc IkaLfonnations Premium Birth 21 .... 23 Atrophy 21 .... 18 Age 28 ... 57 Sudden 14 .... 12 'Violence, Privatioa, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) 878 1162
"The deaths from all causes registered in the Metropolitan districts in the week ending Nit Saturday were 878. This number exhibits a decrease of 284 deaths on the weekly average of See previous autumns, corrected for increase of population; and the returns of the last ten years show that the present low rate of mortality is without example (within the period of observation) at this advanced season of the year, unless the year 1841 must be excepted, when the deaths returned in the corresponding week were 82'7, but out of a population undoubtedly less than at the present time. The mortality in the early part of November has usually ranged from 900 to upwards of 1,200 deaths. The deaths registered last week from the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases were only 204, while the average is 307; those from diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthisis) were 134, while the average is 214. But the mortality from phthisis (or consum_ption) and bronchitis seems to increase, and is now about the average; and influenza was fatal to four young persons and an adult. The deaths from diarrhceri and dy- sentery in the week were '22, which is about the same as in former years at this season; those in the last four weeks have been successively 51, 40, 29, 22. From cholera, 8 deaths were registered, or two more than in the preceding week; but in two cases the persons died of disease consequent on cholera, from which they had previously suffered. One of the .8 deaths occurred in'Holland Cottages, St John Westminster; one in Earl Street, Lisson Grove, Marylebone; one in King's College Hospital, (the patient having been brought from Drury Lane); one in St. John Street, Clerkenwell ; one in Green Walk, Bermondsey; one in Lambeth; one in York Place, South Lambeth; and one in Nightingale Vale, Woolwich. A boy of six years died of diarrhcea, after fifty-two hours' illness, in Frederick Street, Bromley, an overcrowded and dirty neighbourhood, where cholera lately was rife. "The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.863. The mean daily height was above 30 inches on Sunday, Monday, and Saturday. The mean tem- perature of the week was 45.2; on Saturday it was 39.30. It was above the ave- rage of the same days of seven years on the first four days, and below it during the rest of the week." The mean direction of the wind was South-west till Wed- nesday, and North-west from Thursday.
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