THE deaths registered in London last week amounted to 1646, giving an annual rate of mortality of 23 per thousand. There were included 69 deaths from measles, 35 from scarlet fever, 9 from diphtheria, 84 from whooping-cough, 30 from different forms of fever, 16 from diarrhcea, and 351 referred to diseases of the respiratory organs. One death only from small-pox was reported. The returns from 19 other large English towns for the same period give Brighton the first place, with a death-rate of

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... 16 per thousand, while the last on the list is Plymouth, with 31 per thousand.