The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-11 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The Princess of Wales has contributed 501. to
the fund for Mrs. Gladstone's "Temporary Home for
Children recovering from Cholera."
The Bishop of London announces that several ladies ac-
customed to nursing, and clergymen from the healthy parts-
pt
London, have offered their services in the districts
with cholera. Great benefit has resulted from
their exertions, and more volunteers in the same work are
urgently needed. The Bishop of London will at once make
arrangements for the employment of any competent per
who apply by letter to Fulham Palace, 8.W., stating
their desire to engage in such work.
In the Tower-hill district, cases of cholera are re-
ported by the medical officers, and 54 deaths of persons at
their own dwellings, in addition to those at the hospital.
By .the clergy of the same district, 152 cases of cholera
had been reported as having been brought under their own
immediate notice by sick call., arid 46 additional cases be-
tween the sth inst. and the 9th. The district is embraced
in those of the Church of the English Martyrs and of St.
Mark'm ltlaitechspeL A local committee has been
formed, and is doing a great deal of practical good in the
way of a house-to-house vcitation, and in #innhclung sad
distributing food, medicines, brandy, blankets, clothing
&a., for which • depot has been established in Great
Prssoot-street. Up to Thuraday mkt the total sum
received at the Mansion-house and the bankers in

connection with it towards the relief fund now
being raised by the Manion-bonne Committee amounted
to 3,2111., and yesterday, in addition, considerably
upwards of 1,0001. flowed in. Among the more
notable donations, " A Lady" sent 2001. anonymously ;
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 105/..; Masan
Barnett, Hoarse, Haabury, and Co., 100/. ; Messrs.
Barclay, Perkins, and Co. NO/. ; Messrs. Dimadale,
Drewett, Fowler, and Co., 501.; Mr. James Read, b 01.; Mr.
Alfred Davis, d. 1.1. 10s. • ' Messrs. Child and Co 'SO/ •
Messrs. Spartali ended, 52/. 104.; Messrs. J. R. White
and Brothers, 201.; Messrs. Cildecott, Sons, and Go., 211.
Mews. Elias and Co., 251. ; Clerks in the Loudon and
Westminster Bank, 12/. 2s. 6d.; Clerks at Messrs. Samuel
Montagu and Co.'s, 51.; small offerings from servants and
children at Putney-heath, 3/. 10s.• Captain Houston
Stewart and the officers of her Majesty's ship Wellesley,
51. 7s. 6d. ; Mews. Clode and Raker, of 78, Mark-lane.
' a pipe of port wine ; Messrs. Thomas and Bons, 21/. ; Mr.
C. :Skipper, 20f. ; Mr. T. G. Barclay, 201. ; Mr. J. A.
Hacker, WI.; and Mr. J. S. Oxley, 151. 15e.
There ere, happily, symptoms of a decrease in the
severity of the outbreak in the Eist•end. The number of
oases is not on the increase, and in some localities beyond
doubt a diminution has taken place. Some medical men
are also of %pinion that the cases which occur now are not
of so deadly a type as those which came under their notice
two or three weeks ago, when nearly all attacked were
carried off ; consequently, the probabilities of recovery are
much greater than they were. At the Loudon Hospital,
however, it has not been remarked that the disease is leas
malignant in form : whatever slight diminution in the per
centage of deaths there may be is attributed to the fact
that the patients are brought in at an earlier stage of the
attack. The number admitted to the haapital in the 24
hours ending yesterday forenoon was 13 ; of these 9 were
suffering from cholera, and 4 from diarrhoea. In the pre-
noes 24 hours the admissions were 19, but of these 9 were
for dierrkuto espy. The number of deaths was reduced to
5, all from cholera. On the pprTexious day the deaths num-
bored 7, one being from • ' On the other hand,
the recoveries have been more numerous, being 9 from
cholera and 2 from diarrhea, as compared to 6 from the
former and 3 from the latter type on the day before. The
applicants for outdoor treatment were 212. The patients
under treatment within the establishment were 110. In
the Whitechapel district the number of new cases of cho-
lera yesterday returned by the medical staff of the local
hoard of works was 15 ; of diarrheas, ; of which 20
were merging into cholera. The deaths were 5. The re-
turns for the previous day were heavier ; 20 cases of
cholera and 1i deaths being reported; the cases of
diarrhoea numbering 267, of which 18 were marked
" approaching cholera." This district, stretching from the
river to the Great Eastern Railway line, skirting the City
on one side sad Mile-end on the other, anti including not
only Whitechapel parish, but Spitalfields, Mile-end New
Towns the Minones, the St. Katherine's Docks, and their
neighbourhood, Lower East Smithfield, do., comprises 415
streets and courts, and is inhabited by a population of
80,000. Excepting Bethnal-green, it is the poorest district
in Leaden. The bows are ever 9,000 in number, and et
these 5,000 are let out in separate tenements, and each has
an average of three or four rooms. About 1,000 houses are
daily visited and reported on. Where deaths have occurred
from cholera the clothes of the deceased are burnt in the
presence of the medical officer, and compensation is paid
by the board of works to the relatives. Measures are
being taken to compel the immediate burial of the died
where such steps are required.
The Superintendent-Registrar of Stepney reports, with
a view to allay fear, that there is a decrease in the flambee
of cases of cholera in Mile-end Old-town. The deaths
registered from Sunday to Wednesday, both days in-
elusive, were 46 ; corresponding period of last week, 79.
Thegovernom of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, are
engaged in the erection of temporary Wooden buildings
for the reception of cholera patients.
In consequence of the ravages of cholera and ita calami-
tous effects upon so large a portion of the community, the
committee of the Evangelical Alliance propose holding a
special meeting for united prayer in Freemesone-hall,
Greet Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, on Thursday
evening next, August 16, at seven o'clock, and invite their
fellow Christians to assemble and unite in devout supplica-
tion to Almighty Clod on behalf of all who are suffering
from this calamity, that it may please Him to comfort and
Wren" them, and speedily remove this visitation from our
land.
Another death from cholera has occurred in Bristol, the
victim of the disease being a woman named Jenkins, the
keeper of a marine store-shop in Passage-street. The
aufficeitiestook immediate steps in the case, !maths body
was buried daring the day at Anro*s Vale Cemetery. The
Beard et Health officers afterwards visited the house.
They found therein a large quantity of old rags, bones,
rabbit skins, and other things of a similar nature, and
from the mass collected together a most fearful stench
arose. As a matter of coursi:;ll4 were at once destroyed,
and the place thoroughly c
Three other eases of Asked, cholera have weaned in
Dublin, two of which have resulted fatally.
The Lancet of this week contains a report on the present
diffusion of cholera in the East end of Leaden, of which the
followinf are the principal conclusionc-1. A remarkably
close coincidence of the western boundary of the East
London cholera field with the same boundary line of the
houses supplied with water by the East London Company
-a coincidence preserved from week to week. 2. That
the East London Waterworks, to the credit, we believe, of
the present engineer to the establishment, Mr. Charles
Graves, are well constructed to enable the company
to supply good water, so far as the state of the neer
at Enfield permits. 3. That this company, however, have
the means, both at their filter beds at Lea-bridge, ap-
parently, and at their Old Ford pumping works, of taking
supplies of water from moat objectionable sources, but
that the use of these means. under any ordinary circum-
stances, is disclaimed. 4. That an inquiry into the con-
dition of a drinking water must be made more as to the
nature of its contaminations than as to their amount. 5.
That there is a difference between the mode at least of the
supply of water by the company of their northern and
more elevated districts and that to their southern and
low districts, which coineitleswiththe difference in the mor-
tality by cholera observed in these districts. It would be un-
safe, however, to draw, at present, ant positive inference
from this fact, which, indeed, may be adduced in favour of
the harmlessness of the water as well as against it. 6. That
the other hygienic conditions of the cholera field present
no difference freer those of other districts sufficient to ac-
count for its limitation. To this we may, however, make
perhaps one exception in the intersection of the district by
the lower part of the River Lea and canals and cuts in con-
nexion with it, all in a rudely offensive condition. The
absence of drainage, through the unfinished state of the
low level sewer, is shown to be insufficient to account for
the present localisation of cholera. 7. That there is good
tituenta of a drinking
col water admit of removal by practicable means.
for eth.vintgt,hceonlntruariryoutos
conmu.ch that has been said
onre"°thne matter,

ROYAL ASYLUM OT ST. ANNE'S SOCIETY. —A
general court of the governors and subscribers of this
society, which affords home, clothing, maintenance, and
education to orphan and other necessitous children of
parents who had once moved in a superior station of life,
was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, kiir Peter
Van Notion Pole, Bart., in the chair, to receive a report
from the council, and to elect fifteen children into the
asylum. The report stated that the new " Albert Wing,"fer
the erection of which the council made a special appeal
last year, was rapidly progressing towards completion, end
that in the course a ise ensiling mondi it would be in a fit '
1 state for occupation. The council wars deeply grateful to
those governors of the asylitm, and to others, who had so
generously placed at their disposal funds nese .snillcient
to complete the building • but there still zst to he
provided the necessary imniture and equipment of the
new dormitories, infirmary, and dining-hall And • von-
'Womble mug wee still due to the oontractors-Lin ail shout
l,bOt. To meet this heavy demand the council had no
other resource than again to appeal to the gramma; of the
friends of the institution. Ito Chairman, in the course
of some ronurks, urged the claims of the moiety upon
puddle support and resognitios. The election wan
then
preosseled with. these being 131 oadaiirlia . •
Ti NEXT COUNTY RETISIONS.—frr an art
last year, no twins( banister is to hold his toad tritt
revision of the lists of a count/ before the.2olle lieptembiar. •
Provioiudy the earliest day was the 15th of the same month.
The revisions are concluded by the end of October.