The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-19 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

Newc.orLe.—lleaths (on 16th) : Cholera, 101.
Diarrhola, 4. No return from Gateshead. Great
efforts are making by the medical authorities, and it
is gratifying to find that the mortality has made no
material progress in the last 21 hours. A house of
refuge has been opened, and bedsteads supplied from
the barracks, by authority from the Board of Ord-
nance. Dr. Sutherland has received directions to
proceed uudtw the Provincial Interments Act of last
session to close the most overcrowded burial grounds.
At Hexham the epidemic has, as yet, made little way
—only six deaths are recorded, though diarrhwsl
tendency is general. The authorities are very active,
and great good effect must be attributed to their
timely efforts, in the way both of medical visitation,
cleansing and warming.

SHIELDS.
Skirl:WAY EVENING.

There have been four fatalcasee----Of cholera in
South Shields since yesterday at noon--a man, a young
female, and two children. The man had been in ill health
some time Lerare. The children died in Joy-street, in the
new put of the town—airy, but badly drained. There was
one fatal case in North Shields on Thursday and one in
Tynemouth, but they both seem to have brought the dis-
eue from Newcastle with them. None since that I have
heard of. A most distressing case happened at Jarrow
yesterday. A fine little toy, twelve years of age, the son
of Mr. Bell, one of our extensive Tyne alkali manufac-
turers, was seised with the cholera about five o'clock on
Thursday evening, and was a corpse neat morning at eight.
It seems that he hail been brought from school at Newcastle
on Thursday, but had been up at liexham the
day before, where he had eaten some fruit. Ile bad
been purged a little during Thursday, but had not informed
his parents until too late. A local board of health is formed
at Jarrow, which is a large village employing a great num-
ber of workmen in iron ship-building. Dr. Cunningham,
a gentleman of great experience in treating children in India
has volunteered his assistance to them. In the presence of
the fearful mortality in Newcastle yesterday-104 deaths in
that town, 36 in Gateshead,—the authorities in those bar
hour towns are redoubling their exertions in purging them
of anything that will encourage disease. The local board
of health and the board of guardians have divided North
Shields into districts, over which they have placed medical
officers with unlimited powers. Yesterday they bad 50 men
engaged with the powerful river engine belonging to the
Tyne commissioners, which poured some thousands of tons
of river water up the banks and along the quays densely
occupied by the Irish and the other miscellaneous popula
luso wmmes to . seaport town. South Shields was fortn-
nate enough more than a twehemooth ago to adopt the
Common Lodging-house Act, and those habitations which
are properly licensed are under the surveillance of the
police, who visit them nightly. The parish have also taken
up a number of brothels. North Shiekb is not so fortu-
nate. It is anticipated also that either to-morrow or next
day an additional and unlimited supply of pure water will
be put on by the Sunderland and South Shields Water
Company, from their new works at Fulwell. The at-
mosphere is very close. There is no wind, and in those
times, as in Newcastle and Gateshead, we are tormented
with a plague of flies.