The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-21 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

Fresh cases of cholera which have had a fatal
termination continue to be reported both in London and
from the provinces. It now turns out to be untrue that
the Queen of tha Colonieswas towedfromGraveeend to the
Lower Hope yesterday, having Asiatic cholera on hoard.
The facts are simply these : two females, passengers had
died of English cholera, the disease being caused- chief by
eating fruit, and the same came accounted for two or three
cases of diarrhma which had also occurred on board. The
ship is to have an additional surgeon, and if any fresh eases
occur she is toput into Portsmouth' On Thursday,the health
of the passengers was good, ; there had been no fresh cases.
The Chelmsford Chronicle states that in the neighbourhood
of Stratford there were about four cases of spontaneous
English cholera on Saturday last, which resulted fatally ;
one in Chant, one near Bow-bridge and one on Plaistow-
marsh. Several Others ended fatally on Sunday, and on
Monday in three different localities the disease became
epidemic, viz., three were cases arising from contagion,
and two were Asiatic cholera. On Tuesday there were
about eight deaths, three on Wednesday, and two on
Thursday.
At 7 o clock on Thursday evening Mr. Charles Tuck,
aged 47, a pianoforte maker, living at 2, George-street,
Foley-street, Marylebone, was brought into the infirmary
of the Marylebone workhouse, suffering from cholera. Dr.
Randall wee ai once summoned, and administered such
remedies that the symptoms disappeared, but all Dr.
Randall's endeavours to save life proved ineffectual, for the
unfortunate man died at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, the
cause of death being exhaustion caused by excessive
diarrhais.
Two children having died of English cholera in the St.
James's Model-lodging-house, New-street, Berwick-street,
Dr. Simon, Medical °Meer to the Privy Council, applied
to the parochial authorities of St. James's, Westminster,
for information as to the causes of the complaint which
led to the death of the children. Dr. Lankester, the
coroner, and medical offioer of health for the pariah,
thereupon examined into the circumstances, and in a re-
port made to the Sanitary Committee he attributed the
complaint not to the existent). of independent cholera. but
to the bad food of which the children may have partaken,
and which might have been affected by the hot
weather, the children having been very thirsty,
and drank copiously of water the day before they died.
Dr. Lankester examined the cistern, which he stated "is
placed in the water closet, and all the emanations from the
closet pass up into the cistern. In all such cases the water
is more or less liable to contamination from absorption of
the sewer gases, and as the children drank most on Sun-
day,when the supply of water is lowest, it is not improbable
that the water may have added to the previous effects of
bad food." The vestry had celled upon the committee of
the Model Lodging House, to remove the cisteni, and pro-
vide one of sufficient dimensions to supply all the families
in the house. A report has been made to the medical
officer of the Privy Council on the subject.
Yesterday, at the Thames Police-court, Mr. Partridge
said he bad received a letter from Dr. Budgett, a physician
living on the verge of the two parishes of St. George's-in-
the-East and St. Mary, Whitechapel. The writer called
attention to the gross neglect of all sanitary precautions
which existed in the neighbourhood, the Sanitary Act
having become practically a farce. He concluded by stating
that in the last three days he had had twelve cases of
malignant cholera, of which seven bad proved fataL
A correspondent telegraphs from Shrewsbury that cholera
is assuming a serious aspect in that town. There were
outbreaks in fresh quarters yesterday, and 16 fatal roses
have have occurred sines Satur&y, and betwen 30
and 40 cases are still under treatment.

The total number of cases up to yesterday afternoon ad-
mitted to the Liverpool Workhouse was 40, and among
these there had been 22 deaths. Since Thursday there have
been seven admissions, all from the town, and the cases
appear to be of a far more virulent type than any yet ad-
mitted. Four deaths have taken place since Thursday,
two of them adults. Severalof the patients who have been
longer in the hospital have been removed to the conva-
lescent ward. • , r 0-41
During the week ending the 20th instant Aztec':
persons have been attacked by Asiatic cholera in
Cheshire, of whom 15 died, after an average of 17 hours.
During the same week 23 persons were attacked with
English cholera, of whom only one died. The total
number of attacks of cholera up to the MI are as follows :
40 parsons attacked by Asiatic cholera, of whom 25 died,
and 110 attacked by English cholera, of whom four only
died. The townships attacked during the past week are—
Bostock, Mow Cop, Moulton, Northwich, Over, Stan-
thorn., Wharton, and 'Wheelock.

WINSFORD, FRIDAY Lrogarnto.
The cholera is assuming a serious aspect here. There
were outbreaks in fresh quarters of the town this morning.
Sixteen fatal cases have occurred since Saturday last, and
between thirty and forty cases are now under treatment.

MAC:DALIN COLLZOI SCHOOL, OXFORD, JULY 19.
—Scholars elected : W. A. Pye, 13. IL Beckett. Pro:iron
aocesserunt : J. H. Midland, W. Williams, winkles.
Examiners : R. H. Hill, H. C. Ogle, E. L. Hicks. There
were eleven candidates.

•
CRYSTAL PALACE. —The lest Opera Concert of the
series takes place to-day, when • selection from Mozart's
opera IT Seraglio will form the first part of the pro-
gramme, and • miscellaneous selection the second pert.
The artistes are Mdlle. lima de Musks, Mdlle. Enequist,
Iddile. Sink*, ?Mlle. IAV/111, Dr. Guns, Signor Bassi,
Signer Taws, Herr Rokitansid, and Mr. Bentley. The
full chorus of Her Majesty's Theatre will be added to the
Crystal Palace choir. The gardens of Rockhilhs will be
open in the afternoon for visitors.
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