The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

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LONDON.
A fatal case of cholera occurred on Tuesday in a
respectable family in Kennington Oval, Lambeth.
The opea foul sewer ditch, of which the residents
have so long complaiced, passes in the rear of the
house.

The local authorities of the parish have made
urgent complaints of the long lines of filthy ditches
and badly-constructed sewers traversing the district.
Most of the latter were represented rather as deposi-
tories of putrid mud than channels for the removal
of the grillage.
Dr. Milroy, in conjunction with Mr. Hall, of the
Poor Law Huard, had a conference yesterday with
the board of guardians of St. George's, Southwark.
Several attacks of cholera have already taken place
in the more neglected and filthy parts of the parish,
and there is much diarrhoea in some of its districts.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYN
DIATIIB.-OCTOBER 4.

Cholera ...
Diarrhoea .

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The total number of deaths from cholera and
diarrhoea in Newcastle during the present outbreak
has been 1,427. In the same period (viz., the first
34 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera
there in 1831.2 the number of deaths was 246.

DARLINGTON.
Oct. 3.—Cholera
ACCRINGTON.
Oct. 3. Diarrhira
STOCKTON-ON-TEES.
On Tuesday, October the 4th, 1)r. Wailer Lewis
visited Stockton-on-Tees, where he met the Board of
Guardians' the Local Board of Health, and the
medical and other authorities of the town, in order
to assist them in the preventive measures which
they appear to be disposed to carry into effect to
the utmost of their power before any decided out-
break of the pestilence has occurred. It is a sig-
nificant indication that the cholera cloud is impending
' over the town that there have been four deaths trom the
disease,of which three have occurred in the same house.
A partial house to house visitation had already been
undertaken by the resident medical praciitioners,
which, on the advice of Dr. Lewis, has been made
more regular and systematic; and arrangements
have been prepared for the immediate increase of
the visiting staff, should the result of the visitation
now going on render it necessary. One of the
greatest difficulties which the authorities of this
town are said to have met with in their attempts to
put down nuisances is their doubt as to the construc-
tion of the words " Common Lodging-houses."

DURHAM.
The beneficial results of placing common lodging-
houses under regulation hare been strikingly shown
at Durham, where the local board of health have
fur the last two years applied the law to between 40
and 50 houses occupied by tramps, &c. The medical
officer of health, Mr. Oliver, stated to Mr. Grainger,
on his visiting Durham last week, that in the whole
of these regulated houses there have only been in
the two years two cases of fever, one of which was
imported from another locality ; that formerly fever
was never absent, and that he had reported to the
Poor Law Board some years ago the case of one of
these filthy houses, in which there were at one time
six cases of fever. The act had not, however, been
applied to Durham, as it has been in London and
elsewhere, to the densely-crowded houses occupied
by the Irish, the state of which in the present condi-
tion of the public health is moat dangerous.