The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The following is the official return of deaths from
abeera and diarrinea registered on Friday, 14th
Septembers
Moine. Diarrhea.
West districts
North &striate
Central districts
Zs.% districts l2
sDath &Midi 4

Total fa Load= XI

THE ximaiox-notraz Rau ocanurnik

Up to last evening the total sum received by the
Lord Mayer from the day on which the relief fund was set
on foot at the Menden-house, six weeks av, amounted to
17, 8281. Of this sum 8,8911. bas been dispensed in the
rebated this distress through the agency of local committees.
50001. was recently set apart towards the maintenance of
children made orphans by the_ epidemic, and 2,00U1. to
assist convalescents, leaving a Wawa in hand of 1,937/.
Yesterday the working committee had under consideration
at their meeting the question of dealing with the orphans,
for whom, as hex been stated, they had set apart the sum of
5,0001. Having agreed to set aside the sum mentioned to
assist in maintaining orphans, and having elicited frogs the
Bishop of London's Committee that they were prepared
to devote a like sum of 5,0001. for the same
object, the Mansion-house authorities called upon the local
committees to furnish returns of all the children made
orphans by the disease in their several districts, with a
statement of the attendant circumstances in each case, and
twenty-three of the committed in the east of London
having responded to the invitation, Sir Mordaunt Wells
has been engaged during the last few days examining and
tabulating the information thus obtained for the use of
the committee. The result has been to show that in
those twenty-three districts 810 children have been reduced
to orphanage. Of these, fifty-nine have lost both parents,
644 their fathers, and 107 their mothers. These are all
cases in which the parents were never in the receipt of
parochial relief, except here and there where a wife, since
her husband's death front cholera, has been compelled by
the exigencies of her little family and herself, to retort to
the parish for temporary relief. Yesterday in stating the
general result of his inquiries, Sir M. N 1 ells observed to
the committee that it presented a fearful catalogue 'of
misery. In one instance a commercial traveller
had died of the disease, leaving a wife and
eight dependent children ; in others a clerk or
a skilled mechanic ; 300 women had been made widows,
37 in one district alone, all of them, according to their sta-
tions, respectable persons, and the returns showed in an
extraordinary way the strong desire of the mother in
such cases to maintain her humble home, and the dislike
there appeared to be of orphanages. Those returns, he
said, also bore out in a remarkable manner the wisdom
of the suggestion recently made by that able and benevo-
lent man, " 8.0.0.," as to the desirability, especially for
the sake of the children themselves, of parcelling out the
orphans among relatives, and even strangers in default of
relatives, with a little allowance for their maintenance
until they could do something for themselves.
He felt sure that by making such allow-
anoes to aunts and other relatives, in respect of
such orphans, a great number of them would be absorbed.
The Lord Mayor said several distressing letters had been
addressed to him in respect of orphans by cholera in dis-
tricts in which there were no local committees, and the
committee would have to lay down some principle on
which to distribute the sum set apart for orphans, through
the agency of the local committees, and if possible make
some provision for those isolated and very distressing
cases. He wan convinced there were many instances
where a widow would not wish to part with her children,
but who, with some tinnily assistance from the committee,
would do her best to support them. The committee were
engaged for some time in settling the condition on which
the money should be distributed among the local com-
mittees and applied by them, mid eventually on the mo-
tion of the Lord Mayor, Sir Mordaunt Wells and the Revs.
Wm. Rogers end F. G. Illonifield were appointed to confer
with the Bishop of London's committee on the subject.
A local committee in St. George's-in-the-East, to whom
the Mansion-bores committee bad made three grants of
100/. each, attended yesterday and reported that the total
number of deaths from cholera and diarrhom there, up to
the Bth inst., in a population of 48,1000, had been 124 ;
that 300 cases had been relieved, including 57 husbands
ill, 38 mothers ill, and 55 families in which there had been
much sickness ; 44 husbands had died, leaving $2 children
dependent upon their mothers ; 10 wives lied died, leaving
38 dependent children ; 3K widows hail been relieved,
many of them with largo families dependent upon them ;
6 single women and 2 single men. The committee made
them a final grant of 251., and adjourned.

n fa OETARGE OP INHUAtAPIPT AGAiIfST THE
HACKNEY W011E110E:SE OFFICIALS.

At the inquest yesterday,
Mrs. Driscoll, the matron, was cautioned and examined—
She said that the motive fur not admitting the child was
that, as Dr. Vimlls order gave en option either to admit
or to send the deceased to the German Hospital, the master
decided to adopt the Litter comae to prevent the spread of
infection in the house. She charged the medical *tail
generally with neglect of duty, and said that a child re-
covering from cholera had been let out of the iron-house to
play amongst the school children.
Mr. Driscoll said he sent the child away because he
thought it was the best course. Dr. Vivall's order gave an
option, and he did not think that either Mr. ()Hey or Mr.
Summers could override that order. He itilinitted that if
he had had more time to reflect ho should not have acted
as he had dune.
After the examination of several witnesses, during which
information was elicited which induced the Coroner to say
that the medical arrangements at the workhouse were
deplorably insufficient, there being no lesideut surgeon
even during cholera times,
The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died
from cholera, and that his death was accelerated by de-
tention at the gateway of Hackney Workhouse, and by his
subsequent removal to the German Hospital, through an
error of juilguaeut on the part of the master of the
workhouse."

S ICT DE AT MILIMANE PEN IT NTI A HY. -Last
evening Mr. S. F. Langliam, the deputy-coroner for West-
minster, held an inquiry at Millbank Penitentiary on the
body of John Crawley, aged twenty-three, who cut his
throat on Friday last about noon under the following moat
remarkable circumstances :—Captain Henry Wallach,
deputy-governor, said that the deceased prisoner had been
a soldier in the Royal Artihery, and was sent to Mil-
bank under sentence of a general court-martial at Wool-
wich furfive years' penal servitude for insubordination, rind
striking his superior officer. He was received on the 3rd
of March, and transferred to Pentonville on the 21st of
April, as protestant soldiers were not detained at Millbank.
He became a Roman catholic, and was re.tn.nsferred to
Millbank on the ?2nd of August. The system and dietary
were alike at each prison. He was not reported or
punished at all at Hillbank, or, as far as he (Captain Wal-
lach) knew, at Pentonville, and the transfer was solely
.on
the ground of religion. On Friday last he was passing
through the wards just about twelve, when Mr. Ward,
the catholic schoolmaster, raised an alarm that
the prisoner in No. 3 had cut hie throat, and the deceased
was found with a fearful gash nearly dividing the head
from the trunk, the injurylhaving been done with a mat
maker's knife. It was produced, and was a formidable
weapon in a wooden handle the blade being about nine
inches long and two inches wide. The deceased prisoner
had been perfectly contented and cheerful in the Odeon.
Some other evidence confirmatory of the above facts was
taken, but there was nothing to show the state of mind of
the unfortunate deceased at the time he committed the
rash act. The jury, after some consultation, returned a
verdict, " That John Crawley did feloniously kill hinaslf
by cutting his throat in Militia* prison with • mat-
maker's knife, he being at the time in a state of temporary
insanity." The proceedings then terminated.
THE HARVEST Ix Scot Tax D.—Rarely has there
been a harvest time so unfavourable to the agriculturist as
the present. In the beginning of the season there were
comp). into that the weather was too dry, and that the
corn was prematurely taking on a yellow tint. Towards
the end of July, however, it began to rain, and there has
scarcely been a dry day since. The cutting of corn com-
menced in some districts fully as early as usual, and
as the crops generally were light, and in no
way laid down and twisted by wind or wet,
a considerable proportion of them was in stook
a month ago. But, owing to the unsettledness of
the weather, very little was led until Saturday, which
was a MA breezy day—indeed, the beat that we have
had this season. There has been a good deal of sprouting
in the stook, and in some parte the corn has been die-
, coloured ; but as a role the grain has sustained less damage
than might have been expected. Stackyards are still eons-
' paratively empty—indeed, up to Saturday we should sup-
pose that not more than a third or fourth of the crop had
got safely housed. Yesterday (Sunday) was also • fair
drying day, but the glass was low. As yet we have heard
little of potato disease, although the weather has been of
that kind which Is regarded as being very cooduciie to
it—Scotsman.
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21, 18196.—'ne health e( die Holy Father Is eroeilent, espedally
since, ebandontas all other reiseelks, he has coollised himself
entirely to lei Harry's Food, and his Holiness cannot praise
this makes food too hlghly."--Clatette du 11W1. Da Barry and
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