The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-29 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The official retarns show a marked decrease on
Sunday and Monday, in deaths from cholera and iliarrhma.
The return of the former for the two days was 53, and the
latter 2s, while for Saturday alone the figures were :Xi and
22. We append the usual table :
Cholera. Diarrhcas.
West districts
North districts 3
Central districts
East districts 36
South districts

Total in London

At a special muting of the slansion-houses Committ,e,
at the urgent request of the Lord Mayor, after
considerable discussion, it was resolved to set aside
5,000'. of the fund at the disposal of the committee for
the maintenance of a certain number of the children who
have been made orphans by tho ravages of the disease in
the infected districts, and of whom Mr. IVigram, a mem-
ber of the committee, had stated there were about 200 in
Poplar alone ; but no application for assistance from such
is to be entertained until a scheme for its proper distribu-
tion had been matured.

At the Mansion-house last night the fund which is being
raised amounted to nearly 16,0001., which has been sub-
scribed in three weeks. Of that sum upwards of 5,000/.has
been dispensed towards the relief of the distress, through
the agency of local committees, besides large quantities of
port wine, arrowroot, corn flour, and materials for beef
tea ; and 5,0001. has been set aside fur the maintenance of
children made orphans by the visitation, leaving an avail-
able balance of about one-third of the whole sum collected
for the further relief of the distress. This balance is being
daily increased by the donations which continue to Hew in.
From the accounts furnished yesterday and on Monday by
the local committees there can be no doubt that the disease
continues to subside in the districts of the eastern parts of
Landon, where it has been most prevalent, but that it is
being succeeded by typhus fever in some quarters, induced
by the wretched state of poverty to which many of the
people have been reduced, and which mired would seem to
have become the normal condition of large numbers of
them.

For the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic no
death from cholera took place in the London Hospital
during the 24 hours terminating yesterday forenoon.
Two cases of cholera and scveu of choleraic diarrhea were,
however, admitted during that period. The recoveries
were 8. The number rermaning in the wards is 99. On
the other hand, the applicants for out-door treatment are
again steadily increasing in number. Three or four days
back they only counted 88 ; on Sunda/ they were 94 ; on
Monday, 120 ; yesterday they were 15a. During the last
week—from Tuesday to Tuesday—the total number of
deaths was only 10: the admissions were f. 2 ; and the re-
coveries were 53. Of the cases admitted during the past
week a very small number presented the malignant
features which were characteristic of nearly all at the
earlier stage of the visitation.
The cholera still infests the vessels ranting between the
continent and our northern porta. On Monday another
vessel, the Seward. Rook, from Amsterdam, arrived in
Shields harbour with the dead body of one of the crew,
who died on Saturday morning while at sea. The veesel
now lies in quarantine. On Sunday morning the brig
Martha, of Newcastle, with a cargo of timber from
Dantzic to Sunderland, hove to in the roadstead of the
latter port, and hoisted a yellow flag as an intimation that
cholera existed amongst the crew. The authorities at
once communicated with one of the officers of health, but
on that gentleman proceeding on board he pronounced the
disease to be severe typhus fever.
The latest reports show an increase in Devonshire.
Three fresh cases of cholera were reported in Exeter on
Monday. They were all among the poorer class of persons,
one being at a lodging-house at Westgate. It is stated,
however, that the symptoms are not malignant, and that
the cases ought rather to be described as choleraic
diarrhon. On Monday also two cases of cholera wets re-
ported in Plymouth, one of which has proved fatal, and,
with regard to the other, no hopes of recovery were enter-
tained. One of the drains of the Female Home in Hill-
street, an institution for the reception of fallen women,
bad become choked, owing to the inmates throwing broken
ware into it, causing the soil to ooze up through the floor-
ing. On Friday the drain was opened for the purpose of
clearing it, and on Sunday night both the matron, Miss
Haddy, and the laundress, a woman living in Gilbert-
street, were attacked almost at the same time with similar
symptom.. During the cholera visitation of 1849 the
epidemic was fatal to two or three families in the home-
&ate vicinity of the house where the present visitation
has occurred.

Some time ago the Lord-Lieutenant of Leinster com-
municated with the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland upon the
subject of the removal of Irish paupers to Ireland from
Liverpool during the prevalence of cholera at the latter
place. The communications were forwarded to the go-
vernment, and sent down to the parochial authorities in
Liverpool from the Poor Lew Board. Yesterday the
matter was considered at the meeting of the Liverpool
select vestry, and it was determined to discontinue for the
present the removal of Irish paupers.

CRYSTAL RLLACIL —The entire series of great
fountains will be displayed this afterncon at half-past three
o'clock.