The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00


THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1866.

PROM L.

THE CHOLERA,

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrhoea registered on Sunday, Sept. 30, and
Monday, Oct.l :
Cholera. Makes.

west distrists
North 'districts 8
Central diitriots
1 Mouth districts lO

Total in London
The return for the subdistrict' of Bt. James's-square and
Borough-toad were not received in time for publication.

THE MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE.

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Yeeterday a special meeting of the working com-
mittee was held at the Mansion-house ; the Lord Mayor
presiding. A deputation from Nottingdale attended before
the committee, of which the Rev. Mr. Allan, $ clergyman
rending in the district, but not parochiallyconnected with
it, was the spokesman. They represented that in St.
Andrew, Notting.hill, and Kensington Potteries, cholera
had recently made its ap in a very virulent form,
there having been Rev deaths within the last few dun
with all the Asiatic symptoms. The committee granted
them 251., and also made an additional grant of 501. to the
Wapping Hospital, a grant of 201. to Tower Hamlets Diu-
penury, and 15/. to St. Thomas Charterhonac Schools. A
grant of stores was made to the Poplar and South Bromley
committee. Sir Mordaunt Wells reported that from care-
ful and minute inquiries he had made, and from returns
sent in by the local committees, the Mansion-house com-
mittee would have to provide, in the first instance, for
521 orphans, and that of the Bishop of London for
539, as the result of the recent conference end
scrutiny between the two committees. Since that
the name, of over 100 orphans more had been
returned, all of them being distressing cues, several ha
lost both parents, who were respectable people. He had
no hesitation in stating that out of 5,0001. which the Man-
sion.house committee had set apart for orphans, they
would have to provide for at least 560. He took occasion
to refer to some extremely distressing eases of this kind
which had been brought under his notice by Dr. Rickards,
resident pbyaieian of University College Hospital, as
having occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of the
hospital. The committee granted Dr. Rickards 101. for
the relief of the cues referred to. On the motion of Sir
Mordaunt Wells, 374/. was voted by the committee for the
relief of 187 poor widows whose husbands had died of
cholera, leaving children dependent upon them, to enable
them to redeem little articles with which they had been
obliged to part in their distress and affliction, apportioning
to each widow for that purpose the sum of 21. The returns
of such cues sent in by the local committees contained
many distressing instances—for example, where a widow
whose husband had died of the epidemic had pawned the
whole of her little furniture to defray the expense of the
funeral of three children, and where otheas were subsist-
ing for the time on the little money they had
raised by pledging their few household goods,
and some of them their deceased husband's tools.
Yesterday the committee had a long oonferenoe
with the local committees from the various districts
in the east of London in reference to the apportionment of
the money voted for that purpose by the committee
(5,0001.), the general result of which was, that the com-
mittee having stated the sum they intend to give towards
the maintenance of each orphan, and ascertained the
number of orphans to be relieved, it was left to the local
committee" to prepare each of them a scheme as to the
expenditure of the money, such scheme to be submitted to
the Mansion-house committee afterwards for their ap-
proval before being carried into effect. The Lord Mayor,
addressingthe local committees, said that their formation
for the special purpose of meeting the epidemic might be
made the groundwork of a powerful agency for some eon-
bined action, with the view to improve the condition of I
the poor as to the manner in which they lodged, as dis-
closed by the house-to-house visitations made during the
dieeese, and he hoped those committees would not allow
themselves to vanish into " thin air." London proper, he
said, owed to them the deepest obligation, and he urged
them to prosecute the good work for the relief of the des-
titute widows and orphans, with such assistance in money
as the Mansion-house committee would be able to render.
In that committee no other feeling was recognised but
that of humanity. They had nothing to do with church-
men, catholic', dissenters, or Jews. They were a work-
ing committee for the relief of distress, and to that view
of their duties in the emergency much of their emcees was
attributable. The committee then adjourned.

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