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

THE CHOLERA.

The number of cholera patients admitted to the
London Hospital during the 24 hours terminating at noon
yesterday was 22, being six more than had been taken in
daring the previous 24 hours. Of these, 18 persons, all
males, were attacked with cholera. The deaths during

the period mentioned were 11, u against 12 on the pre-
vious day. The recoveries were, from cholera, 4 ; from
diarrhcea, ; total 100. The applicants for out-door treat-
ment for premonitory diarrhoea fell to 900 yesterday.
From about the 11th July, when the outbreak fir's set in,
the number of sick patients steadily increesedlreen 3 or 4
in the day to the maximum of 554 which wee reached on
the 23rd July. Then • comparative lull took place, and
the numbers fell to about 270, but the disease again in-
creasing on the 31st ult. 497 persons were prescribed for ;
a gradual falling off was observable after that
date, and it is ascribed not toe diminution in the num-
bers of those attacked, but to the opening in variouskicalities
of dispensaries where medicines and advice are given gra-
tuitously to all who present themselves. In the White-
chapel Union Workhouse there are about twelve cholera
patients in the house. An entire ward has been
set apart for male patients, and they are under the care of
Dr. Champaign. The Whitechapel district has been very
severely visited, and the extreme poverty of a portion of
its population has united with the pasta/moo to produce
scenes of much misery. It is no uncommon thing for the
medical men employed under the Local Boast at Works
to be called up See or six times in the Oetreo el •
night M sitlead persons soddenly smitten vitiate dimmer
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With the view of affording separate accommodation for
cholera patients, the sanitary committee of St. MaryLebow,
hays resolved to erect • cholera hospital in the Stone-
yard, at the northern end of the pariah, which is more
densely populated than any other portion. For this pur-
pose they purchased an iron house, said to have been
formerly used at Bethnal-green ea • cholera hospital, and
at onos transferred two cartloads of the material to the
stone yard, where disinfectants were freely ussd.. These
steps created groat alarm iu the neighbourhood, already
from its crowdedetate very unhealthy, =tithe inhabitants.
who considered the vicinity a moat dangerous and Wean-
venient one for the erection of a cholera hospital, at once
called an indignation meeting to protest against what they
considered to be the favouritism of the sanitary committee
in forcing upon the poorer district that evil which they
kept from the wealthier districts, although the latter were
far better able to contend successfully against its effects
than the former. The meeting took place in • Very large
room attached to the Melanie Tavern, North-street, Grove-
road. The room was crowded, and the greatest excitement
prevailed throughout the proceedings. Mr. Fennell occu-
pied the chair, and Mr. Goddard moved, " That in the
opinion of this meeting, the stone and Is a most
ineligible spot to raise the intended cholera hos-
pital upon, for it is in the centre of a densely populated
neighbourhood of poor working men, many of them being
obliged to have empty stomachs fur the want of food ; and,
immediately abutting upon the walls of the stoneyard, 6141
children are 'mumbled at school every day, viz.,. at the
protestant school, the catholic school, and the dissenters'
school ; and that the workhouse yard, being eo °entre], they
consider it to be the beet position in the parish to place the
hospital on." Mr. Hallam and Mr. Haggard, who attended
by invitation as representatives of the Sanitary Committee,
explained their views on the subject. Mr. Hallam did not
think there was any cause for such alarm as had been ex-
hibited. Every precautionary measure had been taken by
the committee ; with regard to the site of the hospital, he
had always been of opinion that it should be in the work-
, house. There was no necessity to go to the expense of
2001. or 11001. for an iron hospital, whilst other pariah an-
, thoritica were converting parts of their houses into cholera
, wards. The Sanitary Committee, which was composed
of sixty gentlemen, were all actively employed to prevent
6 the visitation of the epidemic, and at that moment the
parish was in a more healthy state than it had been for
some years previously at the wane season of the year.
The resolution having been seconded and corriad, • depu-
tation 1114 appointed to wait upon the Suiten/Committee
and represent the views of the meeting.
Yesterday atternoein another meeting of tankers,
merchants, and clergymen in the Citp was hel4 at the
Manton-house, for the purpose of raising • f wad, with a
view to measures for arresting, if possible, the spread of
cholera, and relieving the consequent distress. The Lord
Mayor presided on the occasion, and there were present—
Mr. Thos. Baring, M.P. ; Sir Mordaunt Wells ; Mr. Joseph
Hoare ; Mr. Glyn ; Mr. R. N. Fowler; Mr. W. J. R.
Cotton ; Mr. R. B. Wade ; Mr. R. Wipien ; Dr. Clarke ;
Rev. A. B. Suter Bishop-designate of Nelson, New
Zealand ; Rev. Frederick G. Blomtleld ; Rev. William
lingers ; and many other persons of consideration in
the City. A long conversation took place as to
the manner in which the fund and the mate-
rials which are being raised and collected should
be administered, and in the result • motion pro-
posed by Rev. T. G. Blomfield was carried to the effect
that the fund be used for the prevention of cholera, for
the relief of cholera patients, and of sufferers from the
effects of cholera, and that the funds be distributed as
far as possible through local boards and committees. At
the instance of the Lord Mayor, a general committee for
the management of the fund was funned, composed of all
the gentlemen present, and a sub or working committee,
the latter of which is to ineet daily at the Mansion-house
to receive and consider applications for relief from local
authorities. The matter has been taken up with great
spirit in the City, and by the Lord Mayor and the crest of
the gentlemen who have &emaciated themselves with him,
and there can be no doubt that • very considerable sum
will be raised for the humane objects for which they have
put themselves in motion.
The authoress of " English Helots and Hands" appeals
for contributions for a "Convalescent Hospital for Cholera
Patients." This home, which will be placed in the country,
will be opened in • day or two, under the superintendence
of the Rev. Thomas Scott, chaplain, and in connexion
with the committee of the Loudon licepitaL Mr. Scott,
at the Loudon Hospital, and the writer, at Beckenham
rectory, will receive snineriptions. Amongst the sub-
scribers already is the Duke of Sutherland, 1001.
The precaution recently advised of having the spring
and river water drunk in large business houses by the em-
ployes submitted to disinfection by boiling has been
adopted in several City establishments

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