The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-05 00:00:00

NOTION TO WASTERS AND OWP-188 OP SHIPS PIO/PANED

AND HMV= DT SHE DOMED OP HEALTH.

The approach of_ cholera having rendered it necessary
to take all posaible precautions, and experience having
shown that the disease spreads rapidly and fatally where-
ever there is overcrowding, dirt, and want of ventila-
tion, the attention of muter' and owners of ships is
specially called to the following sections of the Mercantile
Maxine Act—
Section 63. " Every plat* in any ship occupied by seamen
or apprentices, and appropriated to their use, shall have a
i space of not less than nine superficial feet for every adult,
measured on the deck or floor of suck place, which shall be
kept free from stores or goods of say kind not being their
personal property in UN during the voyage ; and every
such place shall be securely and properly constructed and
well ventilated."
Section 69." If any place in any ship occupied by seamen
or apprentices, and appropriated to their use, is not in the
whole sufficiently large to giro such space as hereinbefore
required, or if any such piece is not securely and properly
constructed and well ventilated, the owner shall for every
such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds; and if any such space as aforesaid is not kept free
from goods and stores as aforesaid, the master shall for every
such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
pounds."
Masters and owners of ships are hereby warned that the
Board of Trade will, if occasion shall arise, take measures
'to enforce the above enactments, by inspection, and, if ne-
cessary, by legal proceedings.—By order of the Board,
F. W. Biaczar.
T. H. Farrar, Secretary. W. H. Wasik."
Board of Trade, 27th September, 1863.
By order, T. IL FARRAR.

MALTON AND DRIFFIRLD RAILWAY
COMPANY.

On Monday a special meetingg. of this company
was held at their office in Mahon, Mr. COPPERTHWAITII,
the vice-chairman, presiding. In July last, a special
meeting of the shareholders was held for the purpose of
taking into consideration the propriety of issuing a cer-
tain number of preferential shares to enable the company
to provide for its subscription towards the construction of
the Think and Melton branch railway, and for other
purposes. The directors were then empowered to create
new shares to an extent not exceeding 8,000, of the value of
101. each, which shares were to bear a preferential divi-
dend of four per cent. The resolution authorising the
creation of these new shares did not meet with the entire
approval of the July meeting, and the directors
not wishing to oppose the views of what might
be • majority of the shareholders, imued a cir-
cular, in order to assure themselves on this point
The result was that about one-fourth of the shareholders
only were in favour of the payment of • dividend at the rate
of four per cent. upon the preferential shares. Thereapon
the directors re-considered the question, and, considering
the altered state of the money market and the increased
value of gold since the July meeting, they determined to
convene another special meeting for Monday last, when
they recommended the shareholders to rescind the resolu-
tions adopted at the July meeting and to adopt others in
their place, exactly the same except as to the rate of
interest, which they thought ought to be at five per cent.,
and in perpetuity.
These recommendations were unanimously adopted, and
another resolution was also passed, authorising the directors
to issue any shares not taken up by original shareholders
among other parties.

THE CHOLEIL4.

(Preen the Beard et Health.)
LONDON.

A fatal case occurred in Blandford-street, Maryle-
bone, on the 2nd instant. The patient, a young
man, had been for some days previously taking most
imprudently Seidlitz powders. Several inmates of
the house are affected with diarrhcea. In its rear are
some most offensive impurities which have been long
neglected.
Another fatal case occurred on the same day in
York-court, Baker-street, Marylebone. This day
Cfnesday) a fatal case of cholera occurred at 52,
Park-street, Grosvenor-square, in the person of the
wife of a relieving officer of St. Marylebone parish:
death occurred 25 hours after attack.
Between the 23rd and the 27th ult. as many as
seven cases were seen by one of the resident medical
men in Bermondsey : four proved fatal. In the
majority there had been neglected diarrhma. A fresh
case occurred yesterday morning in the same gentle-
man's practice. He attributes this attack to the hor-
ribl.• effluvia from a foul ditch which had been stirred
up the day before, the black mud being left exposed
on its banks.

There was a fatal casein Deptford, on the 30th ult.
Diurrhcea had been for tire days neglected; the
duration of the cholera symptoms was about 21
hours. The case occurred in Creek-street—a very
filthy locality, where several deaths -took place
in 1849.

A severe case of choleraic diarrhoea has also oc-
curred in Somers-street, another filthy spot. The
patient has recovered.
Dr. Milroy (medical superintending inspector of
the General Board of Health), accompanied by Mr.
' Hall, of the Poor Law Board, had a conference to-
day (Tuesday) with the local authorities of Lambeth,
and pressed upon them the importance of adopting
the measures requisite for the protection of the pub-
lic health in that parish, which it is well known
abounds in many parts with prolific causes of disease.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
DBAILS.-OCTOBIR 3.

Cholera ...
l)iarrhon .

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The total number of deaths from cholera and
diarrhces in Newcastle during the present outbreak
has been 1,411 In the same period (viz., the first
33 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera
there in 1831-2, the number of deaths was 239.

BENHAM.
DEATHS.
Oct. 3.—Cholera
ANNANDALE, N.B.
Oct. 2.—Cholera
Oct.
SOUTH
SHIELDS.

Oct. 2—Cholera
The total number of deaths from cholera in South
Shields to the 2d inst. has been 33.

GATESHEAD.
DEATHs.
Oct. 3.—Cholera
Diarrhoea
The total number of deaths from cholera and
diarrhoea in Gateshead, to the present date, has been
294. During the like period (viz., the first 27 days)
in 1831-2, the deaths amounted to 139.

The latest ndvices received by the General Board
of Health from this place state that Dr. Waller
Lewis is about to leave for Stockton.

At Walker, an out-district of the Tynemouth
Union, there were four deaths on Monday, and three
more were expected. In 1849 many deaths took
lace; in one locality (Scotch-row) 45 persons died
in a population of 200. At that time it was in a
most filthy and overcrowded state, and the medical
officer reported last week to Mr. Grainger that the
overcrowding was now as bad. The immediate ap-
plication of the Common Lodging-house Act was ur-
gently recommended. It is confidently hoped that
the prompt treatment provided by the guardians will
mitigate the severity of the present visitation. Dr.
Gavin, at the request of the guardians, will to-day
meet them, bringing with him some of the visitors
who have already been engaged in the neighbouring
districts in house-to-house visitation.