Births and D eaths Statistics.
We are indebted to Mr Honfes, registrar, for the following return of the births and deaths registered in the Thames district during the month of July .:■—

G eneral News

A_ curious statement made at the Berlin tuberculosis congress was that 40 per cent of the compositors in Ger many die of consumption. The experts were righteously severe on consump tive marrying. No consumptive, they laid it down, ought to wed till at least iwo years after the disappearance of all acute symptoms of the disease. Mothers attacked must on no account 1 caress their offspring. They might ac well poison them at once, for the kisses, etc., of an, afflicted person are most infectious.
Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., is turn ing his attention and power of persist ence to the question of cheapening Im perial telegraphy, and he writes in the June Nineteenth, Century on "An Im perial Telegraph System." He'is, in part, adopting the method which was ao successfully employed in forcing the Imperial penny postages He is expos ing anomalies. You* cap telegraph to Cyprus (3000 miles) for 6|d a word, to Alexandria (the same distance) the tariff is Is 7d; to San Francisco (6000 miles) the word is Is 6d, to In dia (the same distance), 4s; to Cape town the charge per word is 3d less (3«9d).
