The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-10 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

Subscriptions continue to flow into the Mansion-
house, and to the banks in connexion with it, towards the
fund now being raised there for the relief of the prevailing
distress consequent upon the viaitation of cholera at the
rate of nearly I,oooi. a-day. Up to last evening the total
amount received was roughly estimated at something up-
wards of 4,000/., though the subscription had only been
going on four days, and the committee look forward to the
receipt of a large cum for the humane object they have
in view. The Lord Mayor has kindly placed one of the
largest moms in his house at their deposal, and they
meet there daily to hear and consider applications from
local bodies. Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Mr. Thomas
Baring, M.P., Mr. Joseph Hoare, banker, Sir Mordaunt
Wells, Rev. Wm. Rogers, rector of Bishopsgate,
Rev. Frederick G. Blomield, rector of St. Andrew,
Undershaft, Mr. R. N. Fowler, banker, Mr. W. J. It. Cot-
ton, Mr. W. J. Maxwell, Mr. IL B. Wade, Mr. Andrew
Johnston, Dr. Andrew Clarke, Mr. Charles Hutton, and
other gentlemen were engaged for about two hours in this
self-imposed duty. The committee are desirous that it
should be widely known that they have this fund at their
disposal, and are prepared to dispense it in the districts
where it is wanted. They contemplate the relief in parti-
cular, as far as practicable, of poor children who have lost
one or both of their parents by the disease.
The admissions to the London Hospital for cholera in the
24 hours ending yesterday forenoon were 10, and for
diarrhas 9, being only one more than bad been brought to
the institution during the previous 24 hours. The deaths
during the same period have been seven (six from cholera
and one from diarrhoea), while the recoveries have been
nine, six being from the more severe form of the epidemic.
There'remain in the wards 113 persona. An unusually rapid
ease of cholera occurred yesterday in the workhouse of St.
George's-in-the-Fast. One of the washerwomen of the
establishment, a person of robust health, was seised with
the disease at five in the morning, and she was dead
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. No previous symp-
toms existed. The epidemic continues with con-
siderable violence in this parish, and several
new cases were reported yesterday. The local board of
health have had to purchase a hearse capable of carrying
twelve bodies to the cemetery at once.
Dr. Trench reported to the Liverpool Health Committee
yesterday, that the cholera last week caused 101 deaths in
the town, being an increase of 14 over the previous week.
During the same week in 1849, the deaths from cholera
were 368. The total deaths in Liverpool last week were
492, being an increase of 179 over the corrected average of
the previous ten years.
The Superb, 80, and the Nankin, 50, two of the vessels
attached to the sailing reserve in the Medway, have been
taken in hand, by order of the Admiralty, and are now
being fitted up as hospital ships for the reception of
cholera patients from the vessels in the Thames and Med-
way. The Superb will be stationed in the vicinity of
Gravesend, and the Nankin in Chatham harbour.

At Fraserburgh, in the Highlands, on Saturday, a
healthy fisherman was seised with cholera, and died
within eight hours.