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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 54, 4 March 1874, Page 2

The Mount Benger correspondent of the Southern Mercury gives the following: — " What else can I write about? The local medico being committed on a charge of mnoßlaughler is pipers' news, and what might have been expected. We have had five doctors in the district in as many years, and wo have treated them timely: No 1 we let die in thq Btreets; No 2 had to dwell in a cave in the rocks; No 3 was forced to fly to California. No 4 was fined 40s and costs; and the fate of No 5 I have just commeuted on. By good manage* ment we trust No 6 shall not add a suicide to,the Hut." The fatal effects of the Into fogs and cold weather on the health of London is strikingly shown in the last return of the Kegistrar-General. London, it appears, was last week by far the most unhealthy of the large towns of England--^ very unusual position for the metropolis to occupy. The deaths were 2415, or at the rate of 38 per 1000, being 780 above the average. The mortality has never stood so high since the cholera epidemic of 1866.