The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

RATcurr HIGHWAY —Yeaterdiy Hr. Baker held
an inquest, at Rate.liff-highway, on the body of Sarah
M'Ketisie, aged 10 years, who and in akw hours after an
attack of Asiatk cholera.—Mr. T. Surging, undertaker,
mid that he saw deceased last slits an Saturday
sight, when she was in good health. The following
morsinar, about 10 o'clock, he was sent for by the
flitielef to see the child, whoa he observed to her that
lama was &feria, under an attack of Asiatic cholera, and ha
advised that she should immediately send for medical sena-
tease. She was then fast sinking, and died shoat 8 o'clock
the same evening.—Verdict, " Died by the visitatke of
CNA"
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Wonwtcn. Since the cue of the
MIMMU, who died on Saturday, two other cams of
have terminated fatally on board the Jestitia, and the three
bodies saw await the coroner's inquisition. The prisoners
ought to be immediately renamed, and the Justitia Makes
up and burned.
MANCIIVITER.—There have been several rumours
of cholera at Manchester, and a man who came from Hull
and took up his resider's* at a low lodainethouse in BMA.
nits field was reported by the pollee to have bees safer.
tog wader the disease for nearly 28 hours, but he recovered.
None of these, however, were well-autheuticstad cases.

harem Isabella, from Lottdon,
home kw Anise. arrived In the Tyne on Saturday even-
ing. She mend at Jarrow ballast quay, and when vetted
by the dies/ et that station, it was ascertained that two of
the grew had died of cholera on her passage from London,
and that their bTdies had bean thrown overboard at sea, and
that three of her seamen were then lying ill on board. The
Isabella was immediately ordered to the croanuitino grorand
nor Jarrow, between the quay and South Shields. On Sa-
turday, at the request of the comptroller of customs, several
medical gentlemen went en board the Isabella to render aid.
They reported on their return that another of the crew had
died is the course of the preceding night, and several other
INTIM eters had broken cut. The customs then ordered the
wetel to leave the river tot the quarantine ground is the
Whigebooth roads, but the inclement state of the weather
and the tremendous sea on the bar prevented her running
eat. The body of the seaman who died was wrapped 'ep in
kis hammock, and, with ell his clothes, was at dark ma-
wed to the bar end sunk.
ISONDERLAND.—IN the coarse of Saturday (write*
a correspondent) two seamen died in Sunderland harbour on
board their respective ships. One of them belong. dto the
schooner, Roberts, or Aberdeen, which ems,' arrived on the
previous Thursday from London. The other was a French-
man, belonging to the lugger, Somme, of Nantes. Both
men are reported by the medical oflicee instructed by the
=Memo to be those of cholera. Their remains were directed
to be taken out to sea and souk, but owing to the heavy sea
running, the er«ather being exceedingly boisterous, no boat
could go off. The vessel has been ordered up the river to
ride quarantine.
SToCififti"-ox-TEES.—The cholera has ahpeared in
this neigi.boarhood, but it is as yet confined to ship board,
end two men having died on hoard the due Asa of this
place, last from Hamburg, of the disorder, the rani is now
at the quarantine station, near the floating light in the Tees,
where she will continue until announced !healthy. No cue
has presented itself in the town.
HULL—This Rob Roy, Mr. Knowles, captain, from
Hamburg, arrived on Saturday, and lies moored off the
quarantine ground. The stewardess had been attacked on
her passage, and dint in a few loan. The body is ordered
to be thrown overboard.
Rola huScß.—Therig are still some eases of cholera
occurring kers, but their number seems to be grandly on
the deo 'ease. It is calculated that about 36 eases in all have
occurred in Edinburgh ; and of these, about 30 have termi-
nated fatally. In Leith the epidemic appear to be spreading.
It first We oat there on the 9th inst., end it is reported
that, altogether, about a cozen cum have occurred, and of
such a bad typo that most of the individuals seised have
died after a few boars' Wages. la the neighbouring village
of Newhaven the disease is also prognosis& It is stated
that 16 cues, and 11 deeds', occerred up till Sunday after-
acion.—Scotsmon.
PREVENTION AND TENATEENT OP THE DISEASE.
—The following plain rake for preventing and treating the
choler* have been drawn up by Mr. R. Drain, and printed
in a convenient form by R. &whew, of the Strand. To
prevent it—Keep yourself in as good health te possible. DI
not take opening physic without advice. Avoid cold. Do
not stand or sit en draughts of air. If your shoes are was
change them when you ems in to sit still. Wear warted
stockings. Avoid unwholesome food, such as stale most or
fish and raw vegetables ; but yea need not refrain from any-
thing which is good of its kind, and which usually agrees.
Aid excessive drink. Dram-drinkers always die Ira. Do
not drink on an empty stomach. Do not drink beer that is
'our, or too old and hard. Avoid bad swift& Let year
bedroom be well ventilated, and take away ellimmey..boards;
If you burn brown paper in a room, the smell aught to go
off in it quarter of an hoer; if It takes Omer, you may
kelp that the ventilation is not ova ii. If the
drains smell, abeam your lodgiags. filth of
all kinds. Keep year poem and year linen well
wished. Doctors agree that em esa Is set so mud* to be
tiered es dirt end dresitesaem. Ter mat it with seems
yen must begin at tie Istaisaar. beam the deagrose
symptom have come ea. If, therehee, yes ham say ans.
wet lessisem of the hew* smesielly if there le so pain
tefr dm Wines" sr if yea howswims& weight at the
ebwit, sr deism, se hiatus. sr send for the
Jester. De met loss time by gdsg Is his Mae, but send for
him and te bed. If he deco age ammo intmediMely, and
the bowels me loses, take am of thepowilem *my hour till
the lesiesses is stopped. Let a mg& of meads of salt be
'hakes in a frying-pan over the ire MI quite let ; thou let
Mbe psi isto a beg, and laid on the Issmsek. If the limbs
me mamed, let them be well rubbed, man the bed-
*dm, with the liniment. Let the untie= be received In
• bettpait ; far if the pottiest is !slat, it is highly diagnose
Mr him to be taken oat of bed. If thirsty, let Ida drink
peaty cold water. If no medical aid lows, and the
symptom isseesse, give ass $11; bat do not let anyma-
im deem drag tea patient with Memel or laudanum. If
st the beginning there is great weight at the cant, Rive, a
gambler of Irani water, with a dessert armful of finer of
mrstsed In it, to empty the stomach by vomiting ; after the
palsol has been sick, pies one pill ; after that a powder, as
▪ dimeMd, every hoar. Every houekeeper, or father
el lip*, shealti have in reading's balt•e-dosen pounds of
alt, hsif a gem& et mostard, a small bottle of whiskey or
geed Irestly, a bed-pen, some wood to light a goad Si.
wb and a mead of chloride of lime, the latter to be
orked in a dry jar—when wanted, it may be mixed
with a gallon of water and well stirred with a Wok.
App.,. to your regular medical attendsat tor the
Mewing medicines, or each other as ke shell think
:-1. The Powders Take of piggSehalk, white
297, each two drachms; powdered , one ecru*;
1 aniseed or dill, three drop. pow
;atm, me
grain : divide Into as powders. Pat each fete a
teacup, mix it with one teaspoonful of whii or brandy,
add two tablespoonfuls of water, and let the patient take Wis
every hoar till the looseness goes off.-2. The Liniment:
Oil of torpeutine, an ounce and a half; liquid ammonia, two
fluid drachms; olive oil, an ounce and a half. To be rubbed
on the chat, and atom ich, and limbs, if the patient is faint
and cold.-3. Thai Pill. Take Calomel, four grains • opium,
one rms.—Half the above doe's serve for child tin years
old. Let the bedlam, after it Is used, be rinsed out with
chloride of lime and water. The medianss need sot coat a
shill og. Recollect that the disease usadly caws on with-
out pain. A strip of new Gomel, warn round the stomach,
lea good promotive.

MIDDLESEX REOISTEATION.—L. flhadwsll, Esq.,
the barrister, held his court yesterday, at the Windsor
Castle, Hammersmith, for the revision of the lists of the
pukka of Chiswick, Fulham Hatemarsatith, Chelsea, and
Mutinous. is the Chi-wieli list the same of . Light had
been objected to by the overseers on the ground of change of
residence.—Mr. James urr d that overseers had no right to I
object unless they bad reasonable ground for supposing that
the party eased to pomese the qualification en accost of
whith his name stood on the reenter. The barrister, how-
ever, ruled that as they h.d objected, and as the sew place
of abode wee not supplied, the name must be expunged.—ln
the Chelsea list, a person who held ea original lease of four
hunts, and who attended to prove his qualification, had his
name streak out bemuse he could not show that the lease
had origiaelly been granted for • longer period than SO
years.—A number of ohisetinas by third parties were thrown
over on the grimed of in.uEloieet notice, the duplicates not
having been addressed on the outaide.—The onus sits to-day
at the New Ohio, Mile encircled.
CITY COMIIIeeIOSEES OF 811WEEL—MEDICAL
OFFICSIIIFOR THE City OF LOXDON.—Yesterday a sumer-
us attendance «1 the Commissioners of Sewers for the City
took place—the Right lien, the Lord Mayor ie the chair,
several of the us inhere of the Court of Aldermen being pre-
sent— te return two medical men from the list of misdates
to the Court of Commas C. moil, in order that one of the
two so retuned might be sleeted toadied officer instil Ja-
nuary by the latter body. The blow*/ list of candidate*
was then read : Dr. Lethebi Mr. Sinai Dr. Gavin, Mr.
Childs, Dr. Adams, Dr. 11-ntl- y, Mr. Chippendale,i Mr. Goes,
Dr. Brown, Dr. lessee, Dr. Grattan, Mr. Boss, Mr.Bown,
Dr. Bird, Dr. Byrne. Dr Llwnds, Mr. Radley,Mr. Boos, and
Mr.Venables. Wino Dr 0 ,vin presented himself, several rue-
tionswereatked by the cornmistiooersas to tortes' statements
made in • pamphlet on the subject of the Health of Towns
Association, of which he we% a member. In simmer to those
interrogatories, he said that he had never individually pal-
' Boned against the City of London Sanitary Bill, that be bad
caused the withdrawal of the petition sweat that measure,
and that his ernettunatory observations milled to the
seminary state of Method green and other loulities, but not
to the Ci y of Landon.-0.• of the eonunissionas here read
sons pistid comments against lead control from the pam-