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London, England, 1849-01-13 00:00:00

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THE CITY OAS COMPANY.
Lot slalling • MlSlltire, esiteeenusi by requisition,
iehabismita either word of Perrbegdos Wilkens, was
die.slime Mange is the Old Malley, to agog ism
one Wig prim alf Mr gee tionasseed St the
am ne Lod Kam reek die (Mir.
aws mewed aa
Mat Itl lathe opinion of this mean Met Me mlee Mewl kr one
pogo of Loam seuelelmak silt aetsi Uwe pows pa
usl=6 at Iltds awe Ora aammteers elmsgel Me la
It it dr aroma Mob el dee Met the ametutlea el
as am el Wien Medd edge se essomy =mom Is oder te
dor*ow lisPo7.
if& Lows Ms a mewled to quote largely from • report
armhbell to the Commissioners of Sewers by Mr C. risme,
yid lows
of which was M show that if Ike aeminiesionere
yidlows a sulkies*, of piping Is the Meet% a supply ef
at 2.. 6d. sr Ile. pr amused sable Met end/ be ob-
Woorwherees the presest prici was be. per tbeweesd. Re
ould let sweat re the proposition that the city *operatics
MM be the inamthehreires of the pa supplied to the city,
Ist the way is latish it wee prepared to t does was for the
ammissesmege of Sewers he have the pipes laid doers, sad
Mae moans. with mem eirespeey fee a apply of pe, mishit
MA drip be MIN, es the pips laid down by severed of
• metreggebss essapesies torched the limits of the city.
The gee Miliddollsl at Liverpool, gad produced from Cited
soot,wee of a meek better quality than _
thegaspodoted
gem Erweastle coal which ins supplied to : yet
pars drawer east the oossumen bet 4s, • thousand feet, whilst
gor the more inferior article the London tradesman had le
paMy
6.. • thousand. is Birmingham the mice of gas was
a thousand feet, but after deducting &mount,
Mt avenge prise nes about U. Bd. ; at Derby the
pries was W. 6d. bat 40 per cent. was deducted
bso that pr c•—at Croydon, a place with a rather limited i
Maher of ishabitasts, Ile charge for every thousand cubit
Mt al gas esuwamed by the public street lamp wee 2s. 6d
pale gooey themund ,• leo that cossumed is shops and private
&Naiad*, 4s. As Pestosville Prima 22,293 feet of gas bad •
bees produced at • elm of 2e. Tid. per thousand feet. Had
Mat supply bees fundebed by a misplay the cost would
Ave been something like bill : It met the Weimer, of
Me ptign 3iU. and thus a sav'mg of 6891. bad
taken place in that establishment alone. The gas consumed
at the Swindon statism of the Orsat Western Railway
sad • short disowns dews the line from that station, cost
!held. per thowead fest, seal out of that a profit was de-
Med by the reer.ideetwer, who had offered to supply the
City vt London at Is. lid a thousand, it, as we. proposed,
the pipes were laid doers by the Commission of Sewers.
TIM welter stated that--takine into consideration the
Memos realised by the sell of ei,ke, ter, and the other m
foe of manufacture the gas was produced for no-
thing ; and that the whole charge made for gas by the com-
panies, was clear profit, 800 SO MICA a it cost them fur
wear and tear of machinery, wages, and the cost of the
week'. The armigat paid yearly by the City of London for
gas was 1.50.0001. ; and his point was, that for gas of
Uttar quality, and the same quantity, they ouaht only
to pay ems-third of that cum—yet for tbiry years the supply
of the City at umbitasit charges, had been • monopoly.
Slaty mike at pipes were required for the supply of the
City, and they .said be laid down at a cost of tO,OOOl. That
amount could be borrowed at 6 per cent., on security of the
consolidated rate, sad by laying an additional 41 on every
thousand feet of gee that passed throu..h the pipes, the
biter. it could be paid, sad the principal would in 2u years
be discharged.
Mr. IlLaearrr said he had received a copy of an set of
parliament which the commonioners of s we,, were shout to
get introduced, end be would caution his neighboun how
the p
y roceeded. By the 27th clause the commissioners were
to be authorised to cobs the sum of 500.6001. to light the
City of London.
One of the commissioners mid the sum agreed epee was
100,00 W., cot 200,0001.
Mr. Bircuarr and that in Maimhoster the price said was
61., yet the dividends were but 10 per cent. The cow.
panics who supplied the City of L•ndon consumed 'limy
year 500,000 tons of coal, sot use ti which cou.d be placed
inn retort until ato of Is. had been paid. in this way the
companies paid 26,0001. a year to the City.
The Limo Matron.—The City only receive 4d. a ten;
the remaining Bd. is takes by the government for improve-
'Mots.
Mr. Bracken mid it was all the same ; that sum had
to oe paid. The Manchester Company lime not these duties
to pay. Ile was no. enzioua tir see the lighting of Use City
under the control of the Commimionen of Sewers, and all he
grust...l was, though he wi-bed for a good article at a cheap
rate, that his lellow.citisms would not bi. caught in a trap.
ti r. AN/PROTON said the inhabitants might as well ask the
corporation to interfere to reduce the price of bread and meat
se or gas. The shares of nine of the metropolitan companies
could he had at discount, one at per. The shares of the
Imperial Company were at 12 prams.. the Independeat
20, while the City Company's abates were at 90. lie wee
an old and a consiatett reformer; and he shouid have been
much more pleased had to meeting bees *nevi ned to silt
for reform iD OD City eorporatikm, OD OZDNIILII of franchise,
sad a bettor supply of water.
Mr. But. Las wctild ask whether it was hottest that the
empsay shauld mho the tradesmen pay tkossand,
whilst they reapplied the lamp. in the streete for 9.. 40.
Mr. Hens said the Eastern Counties Railway Company
bad offered to supply fihorediteh with gas at 4s. 6 per
1,000 Met, to be reduced in three years to 35.; and why,
therefore, should the (Seisms be emspeiled to pay 6e. because
they could nut allow a competing company to comet?
The reeolutbs was put and carried by a large majority.
Tau other relocations—ow, that the meeting would me its
utmost endeavours to overthrow the monopoly exercised by
the City Ors Cempasy ; and the other, that it wee meessery
that there should be an authorised inspector of gas meters to
me that the meters toted fairly between the buyer and taller,
were espied unanimously, as was nee to the effect, that the
whole o' the resolution' should be embodied in a petition to
the Court of Common Council, and a vote of thanks to the
Lord Mayor, after which the lasedes bolus up.

THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES.—INQUEST.
Yesterday an inquest wan held at the Free Hos-
pital, Oray'ainn road, on the bodies of Janet Johnston,
Xicha,l Herpur, Bridget Quin, and James Andrews, prnm.
children belonging to the Holborn Union, who had died in
the Holborn Union immediately after their return from the
Touting pauper asylum under circumstances with which the
public are already lamiliu.—Mr. Watley, in opening the
proceedings, inquired if Mr. Dmuet, the manager of the
asylum, attended, and on being answered in the neative
continued • It wee desirable the jury and the public should
know the course he intended to take in carrying on this in-
quiry. If Mr. Drouet had been present, he should have
salted bim to put in a list of the persons he wished to bees-
stained, es he did not by any mesas wish the investigation
to be regarded in the light of a prosecution. It was gene-
rally the testimony of the public prow that on the whole
the children at the Tooting establishment had been kindly
treated, and the guardians of the unions to
which they belonged were generally satisfied. At
the sums time, the calamity which had occurred was
one of the most deplorable description, one calculated
to strike terror in the public mind, as indeed he
knew it had done from the numberless communications he
bad received. There was no more depressing agent than
terror, end therefor* it was most desirable that the exact
twit!' should be knows, sad it should not be his fault if
anything remained unexplained. He was quite sure that
the gentlemen of the jury would not object to bestow upon
the caw the time and attention which its extraordinary cir-
cumstances demanded, of which not the least extraordinary
was their holding an inquest in Middlesex on deaths which
had taken place at Tooting, in Surrey. One hundred
deaths had taken place within a few days, and no inquest
had been held. In the conne of the present
Inquiry the surgeon of the asylum should be
asked how that had occurred, whether the coroner
had received official notice of the deaths, and whether any
public board or authority bad interfered to prevent inquiry
heave a jury. He presumed that the coroner had received
ohm notice, yet if he (Mr. Wilde') ha declined after such
neer, he would never attempt to hold another inmost. If
ever tiers was ea inquiry into appalling circumstances, the
present was ow; and bow any coroner could ever hold an
Inquest after declining in such a case was what he mold net
understand. The eoroner for Surrey could not be unat-
ritiaintid with the principle upon which his 'Mee was
Wooded. Every one knew that such un paid. sas the pre-
sent could do mired to the dead, but yet might be el Infinite
service to the living. It was therefore to peewee the living,
and not in any hope el swot= the aniorteneee deed, that
coroners' legumes were held. It was well known that
ow were were our fordlothen he the preserved= of human
life that a felon was sot allowed to die in a gaol without an
Inquest being held as to the ease and meaner of death, and
for the purpose of aseertainhog that the law had been pro-
perly administered. If these inquiries were held in the case
of criminals, how much more necessary were they in the case
of poor helpless children, who were not free agents, when
confined in these pauper establishments. Having app ied
his mind mod seriously to the matter, he could not under-
Weed why no verdict had yet been returned in the Tooting
ease.. Why, he had been informed that upwards of eighty
deaths had taken place in one establishment there. (Sear.
lion.)
Mr. Grainger said that eighty had hewn buried in Teed=
churchyard, when the authorities interfered to prevent nne
more iaterments.
A Juryman remarked that one order had been sent to
Chelsea for sixty Leven coffin,.
Mr. Watley said that the absence of inquiry was meet
extraordinary. It was not his duty to look out fur cases of
Inquiry, hut te bold them when he received proper notice.
Ravi= been out of town, in eensequeuee of indisposition,
all hie tomrledge of the Tooting eases was derived from the
=bib joerasla. He had eon that a umber of children
bad been removed, that the Board of Health had called in
themd of Mr. Graingee. sat that in eonsequenee of his
recomendation, the dolidien et the Holborn Union had
been removed. When he bad OM this, he came to the
occlusion that numb= of =fib= would die after removal,
but that did not take best the humanity of Mr. Oreinger's
Interference. That gathers well knew that in India it
was the regular course he
el themi sisolowntake lair departure
from a.place visited by the menialass le ge and live
in the Jungles, and it we well that sow escaped
there provided they were not ailedied within three or four
days of their departure. It wee, therefor% the beet roost-
emendation that-Mr. • sr amid baye givesoe it would
have been wasigning the la Isainatien le have kb
them la vitae a had broken
out. Bee whet martaidlirCe !L1M...118104p ol rye
children who was left behind ea seeing yewatane el alir
simonises glowmay every day E
_Le ...peel the ab•
imam el Mu hat he was dearreaed wen having the
bine every drenastesee asseelell
with = salemity. be it genii sat le bobbed

ia one day, perhaps the jury would As upon an early day fur
the adjegromesit.
Several of tea jury ateatimed Tuesday, which was reord-
hely Axed apes.
_ .llt Maley them said that it should be intimated to Mr.
Drawee that Me prelate would bet attassary, when if he did
net stead, a men moan Arad be Yard.
Dr. Harrod said that his Mewled analysis would be cow
plated by that time.
Mr. Wakley thought he was bound, at this stage of the
proceedings, to observe that it was Mr. Winch, one of the
guardlians of the Holborn aides, who had written to him
the present iavidry.
19Cbet wirer examined was Caroline Fflby, • nano in
the Seabees urea, who deposed to the deaths of Janet
Moan and a Wm. said respeedvely 11 and 6
lam .Trs ber& on the 6th January, and the mord
M Ma feihwhes day. The number of Holborn anion
Maim rhea bask was 154. Thijmnalookad pretty welt whoa
Ow het ammo up. Nor of somplaired. Janet
iambs was taken ill on fieturday evening; complained of
grin= sad Meat, and cried out with pain. Mr. Wing-
kid, the wpm of the ankle, mw her about halepaat
Mee. Did ma oomplein of cramp. Witmer gave her ant
Mast mad water, mad then sold water. flee died about
temsp.geo two, end was ruble to the het. Asked
that Wm tithe ad& be tent be about ten minutes bare
she died. DM mil to have at sett drMcolty cf breath-
ing. CA I•IIII II I I/ I A% is the lower part of her bowels.
(It was here stated that the body of this patient had been
opened by Dr. Pamela.) Quin took ill on Saturday night
bet ween 11 and 12 o'clock. 6yinistonis same as in the mho?
cm
ease
S,
eada only patient not purged. Ditd between 7 and 8 o'clock
K rahy Di= deputy wince of the Holborn Union.—
Woe present when James Andrews died, in the boys' ward.
He was six years old. Died at half-past 11 on Saturday
morning, having been taken ill at halt-past 6 with purging
and vomitiog. Was put in hot blankets, and turpentine and
medicine was administered. His skin was very cold. Had
no crape. Was panted five or six times.
Mary Herrin-11 a nurse in the anion. Attended Michael
Harper. Died on the 8 h Jan. Died at a quarter to lin
the morning. He was taken ill on Sunday afternoon. He
was not paged : was sick, vomited about four time+. Cannot
say hew many times the doctor saw him. Never rallied a
moment.
Mr. B. D. Graioger was the next witness : Is a member ol
the council of the Csllege of !foresees, medial inspector
under the General Board of Health, lecturer on anatomy
and physiology at St. Thomas's Hospital, and author of a
work on anatomy. Had been requested to visit Tooting for
the purpose of inquiring into the mortality which had taken
place in the pauper establishment there, and also ot ascer-
taining the real nature of the epe:emic Visited it on Fri-
day, s:h, Saturday, 6th of Jan.' and Wodnevay following.
Had prepared a report for the Board of Health, which he
would reed for the jury. The board were most anxious that
every document connected with the transaction should be
made public. Had sorgested the le malty of an immediate
inquest at Tooting. Had no means of knowing why that in-
quest was not held. Had no doubt but that an inquiry
would take place in Surrey, at least if the board could pro-
cure it, but their powers Item limited. Did cot know whe-
ther the Secretary of State had been applied to, but believed
that some communication had taken place between the se-
' emery and the board. Had not bad any communication with
Mr. Drouet on the subject, From the result of his
I inquiries had avoided asking him any questions.
Had taken no evidence from him. To a juror—
The board mould not compel a coroner to hold
an inquest. Their power was derived from two acts, one a
p I sanitary measure, from which London and the dis-
trict 12 miles round was excepted (Drouet'e establishment
sot being, therefore, within the operation of the act); the
other the Prevention of Nuisances Act, which gave very
limited powers.
The Coroner here observed that the Poor-law Commis-
,l stoners asserted that they bad nothing to do with Dew t's
estattlise. aunt ; but he contended that they were responsible
cedar the 15th section of the Poor-law.
Tee Clerk of the Holborn union said that he held in his
hand a letter, of 1847, from the Poor law Commissioners,
approving of the removal .if the children, and requiring from
time to time • report of their condition. There were
assinthly visits of the guardians to Tooting.
Mr. Orainger then proceeded to read the following report :
MIL. oasamona's VISIT awn IMPORT.
In accordance with instreetiose from the Board of
Health, I visited, on Friday the sth hint , the establishment
of Mr. Drouet for pauper children at Lower Tooting. I
made a careful inspection of the various rooms occupied as
cholera wails for the reception of the sick children. It is
necessary, however, to premiss that as the powers of the
general bard are limited under the nrovisions of the Nui-
sance Removal soil Diseases P ion Act, to the issuing of
regulations and to instituting inquiries, no authority existed
for enforcing any memo's which, in consequence of this in-
vestigation, might appear to the general beard to be dear-
able. I first entered theca en the female side, when I was
struck by • sense of the extreme closeness, oppression,
sad foulness of the air, far exceeding in oliensitrease
anything I have ever yet witnessed in
in hospitals, or elsewhere occupied by V=aelt.
There was esPecibilly, in the highest degree, that peculiar and
sickermig smell familiar to all who are acquainted with close,
unventilated, and heated rooms, overcrowded with children.
The rooms were crowd. d with beds utterly disproportioned
in number to the space allotted to them. In a rem, fog
example, sixteen feet long, twelve feet wide, and less than
eight lest high, there were five beds. occupied by eleven
children, all ill with ch Sere. In another room of the same
dimensions, there were four bads with thirteen cholera pa-
tients, of whom four were in one bed, and three in each of
the others. In a third room, eighteen feet bag, sixteen lees
wide, and eight feet high, there were nine beds with sixteen
child, en in chide., two of the beds having three patients in
each, a circumstance which I observ.4 likewise in other
wards. The lighting and ventilation of the whole of these
wards were totally insufficient.
On the boys' side, there was a room containing eighteen
beds nearly touching each other, in which were thirty five
boys ill with cholera, twenty-five being in bed (two in each
bed) sod tea sitting retied the fire being convalescent. On*
boy had just Lied on ray entrance. In this ward which is
an 'rumple of the arrangement of all the main buildings of
this establishment, there were windows only on one side •
construction totally incompatiole with a due supply of light
and air.
On the female side I found only one regular nurse who was
paring in and out to attend to the children in several wards,
and on %stip boys' side in the room above described, coat -in-
ing thirty-five patients, there was only one aurae (a male) in
attendance.
To those who are acquainted with the nature of cholera,
with the violent and most sudde.i evacuations both by so,
miting and purging, it is needless to point out the utter in-
efficiency of such attendance. I found that the children
were condarally vomiting in the beds and on the floor. and
that eaaosggently the sheets, bedding, and flour were covered
with the dieebarer, that no efficient aid w is in a single
ease afforded to these suffering children, that some of them
were getting out of led; and that all needed, not only for
doesney- and comfort, but for actual safety, that careful and
watchful attention which cholera, patients in the stage of col-
lapse so urgently demand.
The variomi appliances found in all properly regulated in-
stitutions for administering relief to patients, suffering under
cholera, and especially for apply Leg continued heat to the
surface of the body, a point deemed-, by all authorities, to be
one of the most essential means fur the treatment of collapse,
wen either totally wanting or quite inadequate.
As • medical man, it is my duty to state that it is impos-
sible to ociseeive • state of &mass more entirely unsuited as
to Ike construction of the buildings and the over crowding of
the inmates, the absence of all efficient nursing and the want
of the recognised means of medical and other treatment, than
wr peseented in this establishment.
From the riflemen of Mr. Popham, one of the parochial
surpass 'lSt. Panora% who was sent down on Friday even-
ing by the board of ganediens of that parish, it appears the
reds demand Awe hod lissome greatly aggravated in con-
sommes at the beareand and rapidly Maraca, number of
doe elek.
esThimots gratiemanr saeeptleys :
' Vinod ersytedm ls rev crest coassion. nue/ Is the dams
I semi kr py two m fear boys tm ask ked; sem
I were dtniteethem in • der eleallsise, um esamtly twatior fa and
bills Ira Whirs. In Me eisW dishes words, hoed
itsdporels to ewe bud. In the erne bob gemeally tear in met •
I bet stir* in al dr wards. The Geese wen wst hent dr maws
I vesehala web, to the wog reniademet st mom end ern emu
to the tom* die Ore me two lISSIS ISIMMISSISSUIS4 se as
Ito bra me weed. In Ws wawa there tree ea eie
adne=stattithguireriwese"l== to movie.
se he suddere. Ina mem is to the anersimmie mil atterimta,
hued dr admen era to ; ewe male mese no the
boys, weed. sod wrookraltd a Imaleole yes to to meet pet is
bra word to Mew awl berg soma Uwe wee ally cos more
la the wed, smi ffie 1101•1101, alre was Sr releares in al drew
nom • Mem wooer, mem et mom rem: ear two ar Wee hat
brat to lis knowledde sour be yearred. Am to the swam dors
wises* me per st swim asspools. sod some et the SISIIIIMSD
lingua elided at ea, la ramorderre of this tad twallEalasa
little Mime eademare *add be alltided to the yodente lest Mali I
np=fsorMis the ask= stmemlowe et the needs, the im.
et yesoodad mil palled op Me peeper mellerees led of
anemias to so may derniste With so taw unnee. wise mod admire
circuessimma le of minim as a easiimi preedthrer, the err.
may his bum emeldreW brewed by all teas causes.
Us as so the total mamba of children in the eate-
bpie was surprised to find that after the contiatracts
ol the tor sled days, so tow had been removed;
that ar airiest mesas bad bees takes to lessen the over-
grow/Ls, whereby the danger to those who had hitherto
was g. arty inac•sd; whilst at the same time, by
to
=bie
ratinnal aspersions the sick, the latter could
not ems the assomemodation they needed, nor could this
eceriseemt be removed Into less contaminated rooms.
Allisrask h wee no part of my duty to interfsre with the
t of the eases, yet common humanity demanded
than =ld make mime effort to lawn evils of moth man-
ninth,. I therefore reesmusended that the services of thawed. 1
ditiosal legally. qualiffisd m. died practitioners should be ha- I
meanest obtained,
_• that some physician in whom the public
had should be selected to superintend the teenage-
trate ; that is each room containing more .haa 12 cholera ,
patients your properly Rualified nurses should be appointed,
in order to afford assinfree. day and night ; that in the
rooms with lam than 12 patient*, three names should be
provided • that means should be taken so to relieve the
ovetcrowding that there should be only one child ia each
bed; sad that** recognised means of affording warmth,
ha., should be forthwith supplied.
In esenexion with the arrangements for the sick, it may
line he stated that on Sunday, Jan. 7, I again visited Hr.
Dresses eiliddlehmest ; and on Mapco the cholera I
weills,l woe mask mmeseesed and , after the ex-
li
Oka eineMMllllSltiene I had made on Friday, to find that I
NM of tie corer unmet set of them had been so imperfectly
'NNW into ant. la each of the beds than wore for the I
mud
«a of
two priers ; thus in the room with the female
&Shea of St. Prmeras pariah, there were 10 beds and 19
veal, many of wham were in • state of the extreaset col-
bpi. As regards the provides he aura, las celled ark
M mow my strosabit IbIISPrOVIII. 011 FraitrieLislll23'
bur ailditiosal nurses were lent down by the au

St. Palmas ; two of thane unused on Saturday evening, a
oronnee having bons gives, ace rasp to the statement of
Mr. Popham, thtt six additional nurses should ho seat to
Tootling as the nuns madam which, however, was not real-
ised flannel on Sunday that the proprietor of the establish-
ment had not added a sisals nurse ; so that the only
lon made shim Friday @assisted of the tee women' who
still remained ham Pastes' • sad yet at Ms time there
were 178 Molars patients suedes Lestmest, bskg as increase
aims Friday of so lens than 61. On a mom Ism ezamina-
tion the rendes of this laramtable sad espolimaible neglect
were mast afforest. I found lour of the lamb wards ander
this care of sae sume—s woe= being* m the establish-
I mast. sad whom I had sass ea my provisos visit. Is the
ward with the St. Pancras heals polka% 19 is number,
them we but one nurse, who to am drit die had been
up lime she same on Friday evoniag. Os the boys' side, I
found that in a null satag, halides several c
dren labourinz wails semplaiam, me singers pa-
tient sad 8 with dismisms, was a emu of the selabiniumst,
who had bens up an Friday night, as Wert part of Satur-
day, all Saturday sight, ad os &sae" toy the elms of my
visit. Is the adjoining bugs? ward with 19 patients, same
of whose were essnaleassat, was one male suns ; whilst is
a shied room Ma bads, head eel, ass female nurse, I
mesa hp St Ammo who lidermod mo she bad cm
wee= tuw the day ties, bat she herself
had bons up all the time, Ism her arrival on Friday eves-
in. whim- rem It is right that the names of
them two prang women tram St. Panora, who have thus
Ymssdod Moir own lives is the attempt to save that cif others
Amid be reseeded—they are idary Anne Keith and S ash
Mom

An attempt was made to make up for this iassffizient 'ap-
ply of nurse+, by employing some of the alder pauper bays
end girls still free from strata. In one of the boys wards I
found, for example, four boy, of the average age el 13, than
assisting ; even some of the children recovering from cholera
were so employed. This is a most objectionable procedure,
inasmuch as to bring children already minden by the cholera
poison, and perhaps on the very verge of an attack, into the
costaminated atmosphere of such *k wards as these, was to
expose them to imminent danger, whilst as regards those
who were tree-melee, it was of primary importance that they,
instead of being detained in attendance on the sick, should
have been removed as early as possible into properly pre-
pared convalescent wards.
The comeguesee of all this inexcusable neglect was that
on Sunday the bed clothes were still naked with the evacua-
tions of the suffering child*, and that the few nurses who
were in the wards were obliged to run from one bed to ano-
thee ; and that the patients were most inefficiently attended
With reference to the medical assistance for the tick, I
found one resident medical officer, 25 years of age, • member
of the College of Burgeons and Apothecaries Hall, who had
bean the medical officer of the eratdishment during the last
two months, having to take the charge of 1,370 children at
the remuneration of 601. a year, with board rnd lodging.
This gentleman states that he bad visited the hulks at Wool-
wich, where he had seen some eases of cholera; and, also,
that be had, in two previous situations, bad the charge of pau-
per patients.
It appears that • slgnifirant warning of the approaching
outbreak was given le days before • single case of cholera
had occurred. Three girls were on Friday, Dec. 15,
attacked with vomiting, diarrhoea, and collapse; but this
warning was not uncersteod by the resident medical officer
who " supposed the cases wen dependent on cold and damp-
ness;" and thus, no suspicion being awakened of the tree
character of the attack, none of those preventive measures
which experience has proved to be most effective were
adopted; se inquiry wss instituted as to the prevalence of
diarrhea among the children ; no alteration was made in
their diet ; and no means were adopted to guard them from
the noxious effects of overcrowded and unventilated rooms.
If at this tame, 14 days before the fatal outbreak, due and
proper measures had been carried into effect, a large part of
the evil that has since occurred, it is certain, would have
been avoided.
It further appears, from the evideame, that after the attack
of cholera no efficient means were adopted either to discover
the extotence of the pre monitory diarrhoea, or for its •
ment when it was brought under notice. With respect to
the treatment of the premonitory diarrhea, although all the
medical authorities connected with the Board of Health in
Ragland, Ireland, and Scotland have, in their published
instructions. advised the use of some preparation of opium,
that medicine had not been administered in a single case of
diarrhait up to my visit on Friday, the medical officer rely-
ing on astriagents.
On examining the buildings and premises appropriated to
the children in general, I found that the boys' dormitories
had only windows on one side, • most unfavourable arrange-
ment both as regardi light and air ; the same observations
also apply to the school rooms. The DORMITORIES are
greatly tevererowd• d ; and in those for the lounger children,
the arrangement was that three children should sleep in
one bed. In the ficitooL-titton foe boys the master informed ,
me there were, when all were present, 600 ; the length of
this room being 94 feet, the width 21 feet, and the height
11 feet.
Tits VSNTILATION is most defective, and entirely tacos-
patibl- with the maintenance of health, even in the case el
a much smaller number of boys than that above .pecilleal. I ,
The girls' school-room is used for 260 children ; it is
lighter than that of the boys, but the ventilation is tepidly
defective as in the preceding met. In connexion with these ,
school rooms, it is necessary to state that Mr. Hall, the I
assistant poor•law commissioner, informed me that in the I
beginning of the month of November last, he and Mr.
Tufnell gave Mr. Dreamt • written order, limiting the
number to he received in the boys school room to 400, and
in the girls' school-room to 160. This order, which ought,
even under the ordinary circumstances of health, to have
been immediately carried into operation, was neglected, and, ,
as it must be presumed, to the injury of the children's
health.
Tits YARD 01 PLAT-OKOVND was damp and wet, owing,
as it appears, to its limited size and to the buildings by
which it is mere or less surrounded. Mr. Semple. one of the
medic el officers of Islington, stated to me that he had com-
plained of the wet and damp condition of the premien. All
this is most unfavourable to the health of young children,
for as there are no day rooms, the children must either go
into this damp yard, or remain in the school rooms or dor-
mitories. welch, on other ground', is equally objectionable.
One part of the buildings requires a special notice. About
fire or six months ago, or according to the evidence of Mr.
Walter Chapman, one of the late medical attendants of this
establishment, • Lew range of building, constituting one long
room, was erected in the immediate vicinity of a yard, in
which • large number of animals, pigs, cows, horses, and
payday, are kept. These premises are, moreover, in • most
objectionable situation, as they are placed very near to the
two foul open ditches or drains, dessribed in the evidence of
Mr. Lovick, of the Sewers Commission. When this build- I
ing was erected, and before any chilnren had been placed in ;
it, Mr. Walter Chapman, then the professional medical sah
visor of Mr. Dem*, expressed his opinion that "the Commie-
timers of the Poor or of the Board of Health would insist ea
the removal of the pigsties and animals, if the children were
tellers there." Notwithstanding this representation 150 children
were placed in this room. The present medical officer has
also expressed to the proprietor his opinion that the locality
was not suitable. In consequence, es it is believed, of these
representations, some of the animals have been removed,
but I raw a large number of poultry still in the ya• d, and
some pigs also remain. One of the ditches was also cleaned
out about a fortnight ago, but in so ignorant • manner, the
offensive mad being thiown upon the banks, as to increase
the evil by extending the evaporating surface. (See report
of Mr. Lovick).
In the immediate neighbourhood of this establishment,
and intersecting the land in all directions, are numerom
cpen ditches, canals, and pieces of water of the most offensive
character. The condition of these foul strew*, and their
relation to the of Mr. Dronet, are very clearly and
correctly deseri in the report of Mr. Lovick kerewiah ap-
pended. It is only requisite, therefore, in this place to
state that no locality more unfit for the lodgment of a large
number of children could possibly have been selected ; and
the fact that the inmates of this establishment have hereto.
fore escaped violent epidemic diseases, can only be attributed
to the dilution by the pure air of the country of the poison. •
oue effluvia constantly pear* forth by the vast extent of a
exhaling surface chsetibed in Mr. Loviek's report.
In eonsilering the causes of this awful visitation, the
more impieties, circumstances requiring notice are ; Firstly,
the locality ; secondly, the diet and clothing of the children ; '
and lastly, the number of children in the establishment. As '
regards the locality, there can be no doubt that it has
emend a most injurious influence oa the children; for
although, according to the evidence of Mr. Walter Chapman ,
the amount of actual sickness in the establishment has not
been high, yet the experience ef the present epidemic has
plainly demonstrated that the censtitutnn and health is • '
dirge nurane of instances must have been seriously deterio-
rated. Thus f..r, I have no hesitation in stating my opinion
that the foul wenn surrounding Mr. Dronet's premises ,
have, by their exhalations, acted most deleteriously; and by
thus inducing a high degree of susceptibility to disease, have
greatly ammvated the intensityof the attack ,aad augmented
the mortality.
Bat it is certain that the injurious locality has only played
a secondary and indirect part in this epidemic, and for this
obvious reason—that whilst • large number of persons, in-
habitants of Tooting, and of the poorer classes, have been en
posed to the same noxious effluvia, though probably not
quite in the same degree, not one of them, either adult or
child, has hitherto given any indications of being affected by
the cholera poison. trader such perilous circumstances, it
was of course my duty to institute • searching enquiry into
the present state of health of this populous village, and I
therefor* requested the medical officer of the d net to I
ascertain if say of the inhabitants, and especially the children
of the poor, were labouriag under diarrhea, or other affece
don indicative of cholera. The result of this investigation
I am rejoiced to say has been most satisfactory by showing
in • conclusive manner that up to the present date there has
been so Olinda of disease above the average. This being I
the ease, the essential causes of the outbreak meet be sought
in the establishment itself. Arid SM, as regards the diet.
This consists of meet three team • weel, padding once,
and peas soup three times a week. Oa thquiry, and ques-
tioang a considerable number of children, I am bound to
state that in many instances it has been defective In quantity,
the hied and quality of the diet also have been of as objec-
tismable *erecter, and liable especially in • season like the
resent le have exerted an injurious influence an the
Wsy
Weise them eireemsessess, it is to be mach regretted that
the prepristee did aside essmasece with the ressermeeda-
ins breed by the general board, dissuades* the see d a
vegetable diet. If instead of feeding the.. children se Kw
en a Idea of food, peas (halms to exert in Emmy mass a
isiessos cm the am% a dietmet=
....V7 solid sad dry awl Ihrieseseer feed had beer.
tated for glees vegetables mime die &elm sppeer,ehed the
there ere saiffelset grounds he felleitir4 that the
stem ma the children weeldlave bees lease maintained,
and that, ecesequatly, ewe vaismase wield have boss
offered to the
to
et the epidomis ladleseer, ef *ekes.
With rapist to <he staling this it ifierAffeet, padre-

lady as omens' the provision of flannel next the skin, •
paint of 'Timmy impatience be midataining the health of alt
rang chlidrea.
Alter saatiarely considering fal the choninstaaers em-
emoted with the painful occurrence, lam induced to ezprees
my firm torriaboa that the eseential Cann of all the oile-
r:WM has been the inordinate over-eroirding of this establish-
meat Dangerous se I coneeith the ellen* from the hal
sewers and stagnant ditches to be, yet diluted is they me by
dittecewiris otun..vtasnliaslyr prensuodium billabsytacisathe Jaunt Wiudills;
up to this time of the inmates of ether Milan 2411, these
moats sad ponds. But the state of overrowdLtr was loth
is must have lowered the health of the inmates is Much
times, end was almost certain to produce disease under the
=g Whams et &a epidemie Gandhi's of the alma
Without doubt both the mimes Mavis end the
overcrowding contributed to the 'similes result; bat a
these two causes I attack the utmost Weinman. le the over►
croweiag, which on any site, when serried to sash an oxtail
Se will be immediately shown to have prevailed I. this este-
blishomet, mast have lowered the health of the inmates end
reihreed them to dimes.
lean hoot information derived from the pace-law
4=
ion that oa the 23d Dec. the total number of children
vast ILr. Drowit's charge aracuated to 1,372. The original
rendes were totally insufficient to accommodate this large
number, and consequently, as suconsive additives were coo-
tributed by various perishes, new buildings were erected. Ise
the coestraition of time buildinpe none of the sanitary pre-
cautions so unready demanded by the circumstances were
observed; no effective emanation was provided ; and, nes-
einUy it must be palatal out, that the space allowed. both in
the dormitories and schoolrooms, was altogether inadequate
to the number of inmates they subsequently received. It is
one of the bestamertained facts in the euestruction of hospi-
tals, that wards contenting • large number of patients in
each, se seen so often in continental cities, exert • must pre-
judicial agleam over the patients lodged within them, and
never can he rendered so healthy as smaller wards. The
same principle strictly applies to the ease of apartments de-
signed for children, eepatially these of Mader age. In the
present instanes this injueous system has been reined to the
unison extreme, and hap, by inducing a highly susceptible
state of the system, enabled the efficient cause of cholera, at
a time when that epidemic gyre so many plain
indications of its existence, to operate with intense
energy among the crowded inmates of this establish-
ment. It may bs affirmed, that in ne public institution I.
the kingdom, however well contrived and regulated, could
so large a number of children, with the existing defective sa-
nitary arrangements, be received without an injurione
&tenon being excited on the state of health. This being so
what but the most evil results could be anticipated by thi;
collection of nearly 1,400 children in an establishment formed
upon no plan ; expanded hastily to receive the repeated in-
flux pouring in from so many parishes, supervised by no eon.
petent authorities, and treed from the wholesome control
deemed essential to the safety and wellbeing of every pare
chial citablisbni,ut in the kingdom ? If trier* be any one
part in the pauper population requiring more than another
watrbful and solicitous care, it i. assureuly that large part of
it comprising children of tender age. To these, much more
than to adults, whose vital powers are fully developed, • free
supply of pure air, a provision of gracious and well-warmed
rooms, and of dry and airy premises are, in addition to a
suitable diet and proper clothing, indispensable to the main-
tenance of health. If any of these conditions he violated,
not only will *he general stamina of the children be in many
instauces permanently lowered, but the danger of violent and
destructive epidemics will be ever impending.
As indicative of the evil and pet nicious influence of the
overcrowding and improper diet, it is important and iote-
rcsting to state that out of 56 adults employed in various ca,
picnics in the establishment, only one case of cholera had
occurred up to Sunday, Jan. 7
In ooucladiog this report, it is my duty to call the atten •
tion of the General Board of Health to some facts connected
with this districting case. It is. in the first place, certain
that if the various instructions contained in the several noel
ficaunns of the board had been duly observed and efficiently
carried into execution, a large part, if net all, the evils that
have occurred would have been avoided.
It has been shown, for example, by the evidence of Mr.
Lovick, that a fortnight before the outbreak, one of the foul
ditches near the premises was emptied, and the filthy mud
thrown on the bank., in contravention of the following clear
direction contained in the second notification of the General
Board, bearing date October 31, 1848:
we), refinance to the Luger works of cleansing, such as the
cleansing out of long lines of ditchea, or the removal of large masses
of thoompoiing refuse, much mischief has wow times been occa-
sion. d when the operation has been es ignorantly and unekiltully
conducted as to increase the extent ,of the evaporating surface, as
when the contents of foul ditches have been spread out an the banks
and allowed to remain there ; and when owsoools have been emptied
into drains or sewers having no proper fall, or no run for the din
harge of the contents from ben etb inhabited houses. Works of
this kind should be conducted under the superintendesee of a person
who posseises some knowledge of the *mare of the pews evolved,
the atmospheric and other conditions that promote their copious
evolution, their probable efforts on susceptible and the mode
of diminishing or averting them. either br tM temper use al dm'
donsing fluid., or by other anon The need omcer, who may
be expected to be the hot informed in these respect., should, there-
fore, as before elated, be required to take the general supolntendence
of such operators.
Again, with respect to the premonitory &webers, lemon',
was no attention paid to the purging, which it has been
shown !scams so prevalent • week before the more decided
attack of cholera, as to attract the notice of schoolmasters,
hut even the occurrence of 3 well marked canes of ,:ailing,
purging, and collapse Occuroing 14 days before the outureak
awakened no suspicion of the approaching evil. Upon this
point the general board has been mot solicitous to diffuse
correct information. In the Ist notification, dated Oct. 5,
1844, in addition to other cautions of a similar kind, ocean
the following passage:
It must be repeated, however, that whenever Asiatic cholera is epi-
demic, the slightest °epee of looseness of the bowels aught to be re-
garded end treated as the commencement of the ditto.; which, at
his stage, is (nimble of being arrested •.y simple means, hat it ne-
glected only for a few hot" may suddenly 'swine a fatal form.
The notifications were widely diffused and ought to have
time to the knowledge both ,if Mr. Monet and the varioai
bJerds of guardians which had children in the Tooting esta-
blishment; they were inserted in the Gazette, copied into
the newspapers, and, moreover, were expressly sent to each
board of guardians throughout the kingdom, and also to the
medical officers of the various unions and parishes.
These feet' relate to the circumstances antecedent to the
fatal outbreak. Oa its actual occurrence there appears from
the evidence to have been even more reprehensible neglect.
No means for separating the healthy from the sick were
taken for seven days after the first cases.
The directions of the general board of the date of Nov. 6,
1848, urn this point are to the following effect :
And we also authorim and require the said guardians, where it shall
appear media, to provide rooms or filarial of refuge to which may be
removed the rani ths of such neeessitosa persons as have been at-
tacked with cholera, and also web necessitous persons living tinder
the same roe! with, or in the vicinity of, persons so attached, as the
medical dicers acting under the authority of the wild guardians may
deem it necessary to remove; and the Mimeo, rooms, or dwellings
from which personsimay have been so removed to the houses of refuge
shall be cleansed and purified by the owners or persons having the
care or ordering thereof, or in their default by the said guardians.
If under the ordinary circumstances attending an out-
bream in • town or city, this measure is, as it is recognised to
be, of primary importance to break the force of the epidemic,
how infinitely more imperative was it in the ease of this esta-
blishment,overcrowdel to excess, and with few or none of the
appliances demanded for the treatment of the sick. That
the sudden removal of nearly 1,400 children, under such
circumstances, was • difficult procedure, and one which
could only be justified by the urgency of the
occasion is self-evident; but with children falling
into collapseevery minute, with such an awful
and rapid mortality, and with such • state diking* as that
described in the cholera wards, there was but one step to be
adopted by the guardians—the instant removal, under medi-
cal advice, of all the children not yet seised to properly
prepared and sufficiently spacious premises unconnected
with any other buildings. This was the recommendation
made by me to the general board, and by it communicated
to the local authorities of the parishes interested.
Seeing the distinct evidences of a general poisoning
among these children, and knowing that they were all
still subjected to the gams pernicious agencies, which bad
caused all the mischief, my conviction ea, that if they had
no: been taken out of the establishment and removed to a
rer atmosphere and uncrowded rooms, the epidemic would
have continued to rage among them until hundreds had
been di strayed. That many must, notwithstanding this !
measure, still be attacked and perish, was foreseen and ex-
;deiced to the parochial authorities, for the children were al-
ready poisoned, and whether they remained, or whether they
were removed, the result must have been the same, except
that in the latter case a larger number paring into a more
favourable atmosphere, would be enabled to resist the noxi-
ous influence, and escape.
The interests both of tenth and humanity compel me to
affirm that no effort or attempt was made on the part of
the proprietor to carry into execution some of the most es
sandal of my recommendations given on Friday, Jan. 5,
and which were capable of speedy execution. Among
the foremost of these, next to obtaining further
medical aid, was the provision of a sufficient
number of competent nurses. I a:rosily stated
to Mr. Dronet, and to his medical attendant, Mr. Hite, that
to each of the wards containing men than twelve cholera
atients, four nurses should be allotted, and in wards with
Peas than twelve patients, throe aurae. Oa Sunday, Jan. 7, as
already stated, I found in all eel two additional nurses; and
yet, it sty recommendation had beim carried into effect, as
there ere eightwards, there would have been in attendance on
the poor sufferers at least 32 nurses. Oa my remonstrating
with Mr. Drouet upon this gross neglect, he replied that he
had understood me to say that I reecimeneaded four new
nurses for all the wards, and this he was supported by his
medical cheer. Fortunately, la additioa to my own distinct
and certain eenviction, there is the testimonyof Mr. Hall,
the poor haw inspeator, who, in his repot addressed to the
poorlaw semnsee, dated Jen. 6;1849, Mahe—
Mt- =aissetred that be (Itr. Monet) slinsii at sees mess
Ulm moiled to nosh cia Ms mimeo% end
mile • sieisa of wises" emmenes wee eleders Is
=Ts enhal Sofig ; ha thee relied Ma to sepelea row
roma ea sew ward la there Wen al Mayas helm arch
affildrma
Tes attempt to remedy the evil eased by inattention to
my threctiens,thildrea still unattached as already mentioned '
were brought into the cholera wards to act as nurses, thus
pealing thiar lives by greatly increasing the danger of an
ale* fabled as they mat already have been ley the
rhos eniseJoer consequenge of this neglect was that the few
nurses Isallemithse were exhaasted with fatigue : two of
them, him IR Pawns, had been in attendance on
the slek ken Friday night, and were thus placed
in a nest dimrstess cooditioa, perilous to their
lives by Wog messed to the epidemic with the
vital reins debillhaled by loog watching and irises-
sent **RA aho urged the east importance of pladm
sash Aglow patient in a separate bed; but on Sunday
hemi sheen even bed still ethopied by we children.
aninat creep the notice of the booed that in many other
sioillalle==h Mr. Drolet has evinced great neglect.
alta he meshed both famish foe.

mm aid present medical attendant, he persisted la Mao-
*Wag 160 children Imo the new building alluded to above,
whim the air in its immune viebsity was poisoned by
Use adhaleilime hem the yard containing animals. The
preprinter was van, indifferent be the mime seder of the
peer-law essasslabeara, Maws. Tamil' mod Mall, limiting
the aember alebilima both in the salmi he the boys and
in that he the gbh/re meet moseasbees paint with each an
erremweseded seehelume. I meet aim Mate that the pro.
primer ebMeneeed rep ingeky by sharply rebuking one of
the under IMMO WPM I was questioning respecting the
prevalence el Merriam among the boys.
It is tile esmesreene of all the dm needled gentle-
men wise hew the alldren, that the epidemic is
true Made abeam; MI theme gentlemen are acquainted
with the dims% aatd las if then has had an opportunity of
Mancini it extendrely at the general hospital of Calcutta.
las also state that m 7 own experience is entirely in
with their opinion.
I have, in conclusion, to state that the several professional
gentlemen sent to attend the sick. Mr. Popham, Mr.
Bailey, Mr. Penny, and Mr. Phillips, have been meet zealous
and earnest in the discharge of their arduous duties ; that
they have sot oily acted as medical men by visiting night
and day those actually attacked, and by sedulously watching
over the safety of those still free from seizure, but they have
endeavoured, by their own unceasing exertions, to supply
the want of nun' by administering medicine with their own
hands and otherwise attending the patients. I have already
noticed the conduct it the two nurses, Sarah Sellers and
Mary Anne Keith. which is above all praise.—R. D. GRAIN-
-0111, January 8,18471.
A SICOIOD Savoxy was read from Mr. Lovick on the
state of the ditches in Lower Tooting, and stated that the
whole of the sewerage of Lower Tooting was subserved from
an open ditch, which descended to Mr. Drouet's
establish-
ment oonstantly filling it with malaria. The centre of the
principal dormitory was only 350 feet distant. The report
contained many of the particulan which have already been
published in various stages of the investigation, and con-
cluded by recommending a thorough cleansing and flushing
ad the ditches.
A THIRD ILIPORT was read. It was a surplemental one
by Mr. Graienrer, statiag the stepeof investigation by which
he had aseertaitind the diseue.at Tooting to be true Asiatic
cholera, and the same" d the medical gentlemen who con
marred with him in option. All the medical gentlemen
who had visited Tooting were unanimous as to the nature of
the disease. . .

The Coroner said that the jury and the public were mink
indebted to Mr. Grainger, for the extremely valuable reports
he had read, but it would be necessary that he should ask
him a few further questions. In answer to questions—Wit
nese had no doubt that the epidemic which had broken out
at Tooting was true Aviatic cholera. Mr. Greinger here
gave a lengthened explanation of the different symptoms of
Asiatic cholera, as described by Gorman, Indian, Russian,
and English physicians, but the statement was of too strictly
a medical character to be of interest to the general reader.
All the symptoms described by those authorities, or those
which his own experience supplied, he had found in the
Tooting cues, and se had not the slightest doubt on his
mind but that they were true Asiatic cholera. He was also
convinced the cholera was present in Linden, and w►s
picking out the places predisposed to its reception. In
answer to the Coroner, Mr. Grainger declared that laudanum
combined with a stimulant, was the best remedy in the pre-
monitory stage, but declined to mention the exact dose, as
it might tempt petiole to attempt its treatment themselves
without applying to a physician, which was a point of the
first necessity. No. 1 circular of the Board of Health con-
tained the lest instructions on the subject All the medical
gentlemen who had visited Tooting coincided in his opinion
as to the nature of the disease. He was decidedly of opinion
that the disease was not contagious. In Tooting it was re-
stricted to the asylum as much as if the building had been
surrounded with a waU of iron, although people from the
town went in sad out of the place every day. The special
causes to which he attributed the outbreak at Tooting were
the diet and regimen, and, above all, the overcrowded state
of the dormitories It was the system to which the calamity
must ultimately be attributed.
The Coroner m►de an observation strongly condemnatory
of the conduct of the medical officer of the Wandsworth
union in ordering the removal of bodies from Tooting within
twelve hours. Re had known cases where persons supposed
to be dead in cholera had revived.
Mr Grainger read a minute of the Board of Health de-
claring that the farming system off red no security for the
health of the children, and recommendiug that it should be
put an end to.
In answer to the coroner the witness stated that he had
examined a coosiderabie number of the children at Tooting,
and had found that generally they were not in a gold
state of health. There was great pallor, soreness of the eyes,
while a great many seemed to have the itch. Stiil some
were in perfect health, hut in his opinion it would he utterly
impossible to crowd 1,400 children together in any building
without producing dis.ase ; 70 children could leep
safely in one chamber. In hospitals they were abolishing
the large wards.
The proceedings were then adjourned to ten o'clock on
Tuesday next.

CllOLEßA.—Yesterday the Board of Health lamed
the following report of fresh cases :—Retuge, Ogle-street,
Marylebone, 3, 1 fatal; Newington Workhouse, 1 fatal ; St.
Pancras Workhouse, 1 fatal ; Wandsworth 2. fatal ; Drouees
Establishment, Tooting, 6 fatal, under treatment, 107; West
Reedhant, No 1011., 4, 1 fatal; Gateshead, 3 fatal; Edits.
burgh, 8 fatal •; Glasgow, 92, 32 fatal ; Dumfries, 1 fatal ;
Maiwelltown, ; Jedburgh, 1 ; Mick&Mee, 1 ; Bonhill, 1;
Kilcradock, 7.2 fatal ; Marchline, 1 fatal : total new cases,
124, 60 deaths.
SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—The quarterly ge-
neral meeting of this society was held yesterday, at is rooms,
74, Kina Willianostreet, John Wild, Ewi , vice-presiden.,
in the their. From the secretary's report it appeared that
from Ist Oct. to 3lst Dec., 1848, there had been received on
board the Dreadnought, patients from her Majesty's ship..
30; from the Ron. Eat India Company's ships, —; from
British and foreign merchant vessels, 637: making, with
those on board Ist Oct (170), 837; of whom 6.54 had been
discharged, 170 were still sick, 7 convalescent, and 6 fit fur
duty. Tne number of cholera cases had been about 30. The
total number received since the establishment of the society
had been 58.767. The out-patients from let Oct. to 31st
Dec. were 481. The expenditure during the quarter hal
been 1.3591. 3s. 5d., leaving a balance in hand at Milian.
of 1524 7s 4d. The cue in litigation between the society and
the comoration of Liverpool, as to the construction of the
Seamen's Registration Act it was expected would come on in
the sittings after nest term. Mr. Bush, the senior surgeon,
had in consideration of his valuable services been made by
t the directors an honorary life governor. Thanks having been
• voted to the chairman, the meeting separated.
. .

COUNTY COURT JUSTICE. Sir,— Of late that
monstrous abuse of justice, the Palace Court, has called forth
the severe animadversion of the press. Permit me, sir, to
direct your attention to another " bird of the same feather,"
the County Court. In 1847 I parchased a villa at Moul.ey
Bunt ; the house requiring repair I employed London
tradesmen to carry out that object. My business being in
London, I was necessarily absent from Monkey, but I loft in
charge of the premises a gardener and his wife, with strict
injunctions not to order anything into the house without my
sanction—an order they not only strictly obeyed, but also
communicated to the tradesmen of the vicinity. Having got
rid of the workmen, and settled everything as I imagined, I
WIN favoured with a bill of 21. 6s. 3d. for coals. As I had
oaid for what fuel I had given orders for, I ascertained from
my servants that they lead neither ordered the coals nor seen
them. Feeling it must either be a mistake or an
imposition I took no further notice of the matter
until I received another bill, which had now grown
into an account of 21. Bs. 11d., with the a,treeable
addenda, " if not paid before the 26th it will be put in the
county court." Upon comparing the two accounts, I disco-
vered that they in nowise corresponded. One was for the
year 1817, the other for 1848 ; the dates of the month were
widely dissimilar, as also the items. The 15th of November
I wee served with a summons from the Kingston County
Court foe 21. 19i. 11d., which summons I left town to at-
tend. I then leant that the coals were ordered by a jour
neyraan painter employed in pasting my house. Being
sworn, I dented ever giving the man any authority for or.
dering any goods in my name, which testimony was con-
firmed by the oaths of my servants, who declared that they
had never been bad. The plaintiff thereon, not being able to
prove his plaint, prayed an adjournment, which the judge
granted. I was then served with a notice as followeth
Order to ad)ournFtffinfra.—ln the County Court of Kingston.—
Between J. Togs, tiff, and J. Moo, defendant. it is ordered
that the trial th action to adjourned until, Be., noon plsintlf
paying the costs of such adjournment.—By order of the court, Punta
Funny', clerk.
Again was I dragged 24 miles into the country from my
business, and found myself upon this occasion opposed by
the plaintiff's wife and the painter who had ordered the
coals. Upon ages-examining this person, I elicited that the
coals were brought to my premises, but afterwards were
taken away. e • • • Upon this evidence, in despite of my
solemn denial of all knowledge of the transaction,
• denial corroborated by my servants, and a master trade.-
man, whom the plaintiff bad subpoenaed, and in face of the
glaring discrepancies in the two accounts rendered me, the
learned judge adjudged me to pay the amount sued for and
costs forthwith. My surprisswaa still further heightened upon
finding I had also to pay the costs of the plaintiff's adjourn-
ment, contrary to the official notice before quoted. I tra-
velled 48 miles to attend the court at an expense of 31. I
lost two days valuable time which I compute at 51., and had
tegyay no less a suer. than '3l. for county court fees upon •
claim of 21. fie. Ild. : so much for the vaunted cheer:via of
the system. There being no appeal from the dictum of the
oonaty court, prevents me removing the case to a higher
tribunal.—l am, air, your obedient servant, Joni; HIRON,
Veterinary Chemist to her Majesty, 12, Dover street, Picca-
dilly.
COST OF THIS INSURRECTION IN CANADA.—Sir,—
Permit me to correct a mistake in your report of what I said
at Manchester on the 10th. The report makes me sty that
it had coat " 10,000,0001." to put down the insurrection in
Canada; my statement was, that the sums voted for that
purpose amounted to upwards of 2,000,0001.—1 em, itc,
Thomas Miuezk Omen, 60, Wilton-crescent, London.—
Jae. 12, 1849.
HABEAS CORPllll.—Sir,—ln consequence of your
report from the Exchequer in to-day's p.per, which com-
pletely calla in question the truth of my affidavit, it becomes
necessary for awl to explain that my affidavit having been
sufficient for issuing the writ of habeas, and the return
being sufficient fee remanding me, it was then my right to
move thereupon for an attachment 'against the keeper, to
compel him to support his return upon oath. Notice of my
intention to do this, if the return was not true, was given in
the usual form, with such writs issuing out of the Crown.
once, and the notice appeared annexed to the return in
court. The right to apply for such attachment is absolute
under the two acts of Haheas such
via., 31 Charles
c. 2, and 66 George 111,, c. 100. By the Lori Chief Baron