The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

THE. CHOLERA.

The Report of the General Board of Health upon
cholera in Newcastle and the neighbourhood is as (allows :
NEWCASTLE:

Cholera. Diarrhea.
lith

18th (up to 12 p.m) .. 93
GATESIIEID.—TotaI deaths from 2nd to 17th:
Gateshead 167
Heworth
Whiekham
Winlaton

The proportion of the mortality in corresponding periods
of the outbreak of 1831 and 18.33 is as follows :

NEWCIUTLE, 1853.—During the first 19 days (from 31st
August to 18th September) there hare been
Deaths from cholera and diarrbees 5,57
1831.
During the first 19 days in 1331 (9th Decem-
ber to 27th) there were 9l

19 days (1853)
19 days (1831) 9l

Excess in 1863 4G6

The mortality far Saturday it will be seen is but little in
excess of that of the day before. The complete record for
Sunday has not yet reached London. A very important
step has been taken to-day by the authorities in London.
It has been found that in a part of Newcastle, called
Sandgate, 4,000 people are living in a state of such filth,
overcrowding, and absolute want of the commonest con
veniences for either decency or cleanliness, that the only
hope of effectually checking the progress of the epidemi
among them is to remove them from the locality. The in-
spector of the General Board of Health has recommended,
acting on the experience of 1819, when, in the small town
of hlevagissey, in Cornwall, where the habitations of the
poor are closely packed, and where the whole site is de-
scribed as one mass of filth which could not be removed in
time to avert the most disastrous consequences, the in-
spector advised the immediate removal of the population.
In this instance there was no local means of providing
houses of refuge ; but the Board of Ordnance, on applica-
tion of the General Board of Health, kindly granted the use
of tents, in which 360 of the population were accom-
modated. Besides these, upwards of 60J people
left the locality and dispersed themselves elsewhere,
Amongst the people drafted into the tents not a single case
of cholera occurred, whilst 126 additional cues took place
amongst the population which remained in the houses.
There are no means of obtaining accurate information as to
the 600 of the population dispersed, but it Is reported gene-
rally that they have experienced similar immunity. Ano •
ther consequence of this great thinning of the population,
amounting to the withdrawal of nearly one-half of the whole
inhabitants, has been that the fatality has diminished in a
greater ratio among those who are left.
Tents have been supplied by the Board of Ordnance in
several other lnatances, at the request of the General Board
of Health, with similar beneficial results, as far as has been
ascertained.

Application has accordingly been made, on Mr.
Grainger's urgent representation, to the War-office and the
Board of Ordnance. The latter board hate promptly sent
the order for the immediate dispatch of 200 tents, and the
former office promise the aid and co-operation of an expe-
rienced officer.

The directions and regulations of the General Board of
Health, under the Order in Council, are prepared, and will
be printed for issue by to. morrow.
In raply to objections expressing apprehensions from
being tented out during the wet weather, it was stated, at
Chobham, during excessively wet weather, the sickness
amongst the troops was much less than usual in barracks,
and that, on occasions of epidemic, troops had been removed
from barracks to tents always with great advantage, where
the site of the tents was good.