The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-02 00:00:00

EDINBURGH.

Dr. Gavin, being on his way to Dundee to moist
the authorities in the adoption of preventive mea-
sures against the outbreak of cholera, which appeared
to be impending there, was informed at Edin Cal
of some cases that had just occurred in that city, of
which he learnt the following particulars:
On the fourth floor of a "land" called James-
court, in the Lawn-market, in one room of a trian-
gular shape, the two sides measuring 15 feet, there
lived a man and wife and four children, their ages
84. 28, 6,4, 21 years, and 12 months; they all slept
in one closet, 7 by 41, on a bed which exactly filled
the closet, the doorway being the only space for the
admission of air.
On Friday week, the 21st, the child aged 21 first
took iIL On the 24th the child aged 6 took ill, and
also the father. The mother was attacked last Sa-
turday (the 29th). All these cases passed on to
cholera. The child 21 years' old died on the 25th.
The father, mother (who was suckling the infant),
and one child were removed to the cholera hospital,
where the two former are now under treatment and
the latter is in consecutive fever. The room in
which these deaths occurred was found on inspection
in the same state es when left, the cholera stools
were unremoved, and no cleansing measures what-
ever had been executed or were apparently saa-
templated. These people dared not remove from
their room, the whole refuse of their domestic life
unless at the stated hours authorised by the police.
To do this the female had to watch the arrival of the
cart, and to secure clean, or pure, and remove dirty
water she had to go up and down four flights of stairs.
It is to be noticed that the non-removal of the cholera
stools of these people is equally provided against by
few, or the removal of all other domestic refuse. It
is stated that no arrangements of any kind have been
made for the gratuitous supply of medicines under
such urgent and necessitourcunumstancee.
The following melancholy particulars have been
furnished of the two most recent deaths in this
town.
The wife of a gentleman inhabiting a house in
Causewayside, who died on the morning of the 27th,
was taken severely ill with cramps on the morning of
the 23rd, at 4 a.m.; she had suffered previously from
vomiting and bowel complaint, but she delayed to
apply for advice till 4 a.m. of the 23rd, as she
thought the diarrhcea would pass off. She fell into
collapse on the evening of the 26th, and died in 15
hours. Her mother-in-law reported herself ill on
the forenoon of Saturday, the 29th ; she had had
cramp and diarrhoea the previous day ; but, on an
examination, she concealea these symptoms, lest she
should alarm her son. She died at 12 p.m. that
night.
On a careful inspection of the house where these
deaths occurred, Dr. Gavin found the sanitary condi-
tion of this gentleman's residence worse than that of
the poor family in the Lawnmarket.
Opposite, and about 15 or 20 feet from the bed-
room of the old lady, there was an open privy, re-
ceiving its contents into a small open cesspool by its
side (of two feet square), which overflowed out of
the yard and over the pathway into an open gutter
in the street, at the mouth of a sewer. Near the back
door, within three feet of this house, a drain hole
was placed, and at the door itself there was a cess-
pool, three feet deep by two feet square, filled to
overflowing into the drain with putrid water, which,
on being stirred, sent up thousands of air-bubbles.
This cesspool was only known through the inspection
instituted at that time. The floor of the parlour
was laid on the damp ground, and the boards were

rotten. The room %%here the mother died was
excessively damp, and the paper had fallen from the
walla.

NEWCASTLE-I:PON-TYNE. Oct. 31. Deaths—.
Cholera, 1 ; diarrhoea, 1.

WOLsTANTON.—Oct. 29. Death—Diarrhma, 1.
TEM./KING (Sr. Osicrit).—Oct. 29. Diarrhces, 2.
EASINGTON UNION.—Oct. 16. Death—Cholera, 1.
This case (which is just reported) occurred at
Seaham-harbour, in this union. There was another
case about five weeks ago, which also occurred at
Seaham-harbour ; but nu return was then made.
The description of the locality is, that the situation
is confined and the walls damp.
TIIOIISE UNION.—Oct. 29. Deaths—Cholera, 1.
Oct. 30. Cholera, 1.
I.rroN.—Oct. 29. Death—Cholera, 1. Oct. 31.
Death,—Cholera, 2.
DEE.—Oct. Deaths—Cholera, 4.
EDlNnuitilo.—Oct. 29. Death—Cholera, 1.

These were mother and daughter, in a respectable
station in life. The premists aro described as being
in a very unsatisfactory state. A cesspool at the
back has been already cleansed, and a quantity of
old rubbish removed and buried.

ARIIROATII.—Oct. 29. Death—Cholera, 1.
SOU ill SIM:TAM—Oct. 21 to 29. Seven deaths
from choleraic die.ease have been registered in this
union during the above period. Of these five have
been registered as occurring in South Shields, and 2
iu Hebburn. Three deaths arc entered as caused by
Asiatic cholera—one in tour hours, another in 18
hours, and a third in 21 hours after seizure. Three
more are entered as cholera, and 1 diarrhoea. The
total number of deaths to the 29th ult. has been 67.