The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,

ginning of the next session Mr. less.szu may be
heard congratulating himself and the Howe upon
the justification which his confidence will by that
time have received. '

OSBORNE, JOLT 31.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon in a
marriage and four, with Princess Louise, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice, and her Majesty walked in the
grounds this morning with Princess Louise.
The Duke of Edinburgh left Osborne yesterday, at-
tended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke.

A deputation of directors of the Royal Academy of
Music, consisting of the Marquis Townehend, Sir George
Clerk, and Mr. K. J. Pye, had an interview with the Lord
President and the Vice-President of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, at the Privy Council-office,
yesteiday.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Moat Honour-
able Privy Council met yesterday at the Privy Council-
offieeon the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present
were the Lord President, the Bight Hon. a H. Walpole,
and the Vice-President. Colonel Harness, Mr. Helps, and
Mr. Harrison were present.
' ' '

A deputation from the Thames Conservancy, consisting
of the Lord Mayor, Admiral Sir F. Nicholson, Bart., and
Mr. Jaques, chief clerk, had an interview with the Lord
President of the Council at the Privy Council-office yester-
day, relative to the care of cholera patients on shipboard
in the river Thames.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
left Gloucester House for Goodwood on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Richmond. _ _ _

The Earl and Countess Spencer have left town
for SWIM' for the Goodwood races.

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A marriage is arranged between Mr. Alfred
Seymour, If.P., and Mn. Botheld, daughter of Si•• Bald-
win Leighton, and widow of the late Berish Botfield, Esq.,
M.P.

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The Owl understands that Lord Cowley has sent
in his resignation as ambassador at Paris, and that he
merely holds office until the government have decided on
his successor in a post which it is far from easy to fill.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

THE CHOLERA IN LONDON.

The following is the weekly return of the

Registrar-Generalof births and deaths in London and in 12
other large towns of the United Kingdom :

" General Register-office, Somerset-house, July 30.
"In the week that ended on Saturday, July 28, the
births registered in London and twelve other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,147: the deaths
registered, 4,356. The annual rate of mortality was 37 per
1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,016 boys
and 973 girls, in all 1,989 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65,
the average number, corrected for increase of population,
was 1,966. The deaths registered in London during the
week were 2,600. It was the 30th week of the year ; and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with a cor-
rection for increase of population, 1,387. The deaths in
the present return exceed by 1,213 the estimated number.
" The excess of deaths is caused entirely b 7 cholera and
diarrhoia. 904 deaths by cholera, 349 by diarrbcea were
registered in the week, making in theaggregatel,2s3 deaths.
The deaths by cholera in the last five weeks have been 6, 14,
32, 346, and 904 ; by its allied disease, diarrheas, 67, 102,
150, 221, and 349. The epidemic takes the form of diarrhoia
chiefly in young children ; thus 309 of the 349 deaths from
diarrheas last week were children under five years of age,
including 244 infanta. Of cholera 179 children of the same
age died ; 160 boys and girls of five and under twenty years
of age ; 455 men and women in the prime of life ; and 110
people of ages above 60.
•Itis a peculiarity of the case that the greater par of
this slaughter in seven days of 1,253 people of all ages took
place within a limited portion of the London area. 924 of
the deaths, 811 by cholera and 113 by diarrheas, were re-
gistered in the six districts of Bethnal-green, Whitechapel,
St. George-in-the-East, Stepney, Mile-end Old-town, and
Poplar, including Bow, among about a seventh part of the
populationof London and on one-fourteenth of its area. The
attack extends all along the north aide of the Thames, from
the River Lea and the Isle of Dogs to the Tower of London.
Limehouse-basin and the Regent's-canal are the central line
of the attack, which stretches as far north as Victoria-park.
This is essentially the port of London, inhabited by its
maritime population. The canals and the basin are full
of foul water, and are apparently connected with the
Limehouae-cut, the Hackney-cut, and the River Les. The
East London Waterworks Canal draws its supply from the
liver at Lea-bridge, where there is a reservoir, and runs for
s couple of miles by the side of the Hackney-:.sat down to its
other reservoirs north of Bow and near the Lea. The pre-
sent cholera field derives its waters from these works. It it
tight to add that the water has hitherto borne a comparison
with the other London waters in Dr. Frankland's analyses.
To-day at Poplar the water looks clear, and no complaints
are made of its quality. The company will, no doubt, take
exemplary pains to filter its waters ; but it is not easy to
guarantee the purity of water drawn from such a river as
the lea, in dangerous proximity to sewers, cuts, and
canals.
" Whoever will take the trouble to go among the people
now suffering in crowded dwellings will see the danger of
the water butts ; poor women are washing the dirty linen
of patients with water drawn from those vessel, which
are often found close to the water-closets. It would be a
source of additional safety to London if the tanks and
butts were all abolished, and the pipes were filled on the
system of constant supply. The time has come for this
refona.
" The mortality is overwhelming in some of the districts.
In Poplar alone 145, in Bow 188 people died last week, in-
cluding Dr. Ansel, the meritorious health officer, and Mr.
Ceeley, clerk to the Board of Works, whose name figures
on the placards. The people are falling ill every hour ; you
see them of all ages, children and adults, lying about their
beds like people under the influence of a deadly poison,
some acutely suffering, nearly all conscious of their fate and
of all that isgoing onaround them. Here the doctor a drawn
in by the husband to see the wife now attacked ; there the
husband lies in spasms ; here is an old woman seated dead,
with eye. wide open ; there lies a fine four-year old child,his
curly bead drooping in death, but his mother says the pulse
is strong, and he takes what she gives him. An older
brother just recovered is running about. Several wards of
the London Hospital are full of patient., many of than
very young children in all stagesof the disease ; some
dying, some well again and playing. The medical men have
no rest, and with the health officers are nobly doing
their duty ; brave men ready to lay down their
lives for their patients. The people themselves
are most patient ; most willing to help each
other, the women always in front, and none shrinking
danger. There is no desertion of children, husbands,
wives, fathers, or mothers from fear. In the midst of this

scene the authorities have been to some extent paralysed.
The nuisance inspectors are not sufficiently numerous,
neither are the medical officers. The administrative work
has not been organised with sufficient promptitude, and is
not carried out with sufficient energy. Such a calamity
as this may well call forth the whole resources of London,
and what ts especially wanted is executive power well
organised in conjunction with the medical health officers.
The people of East London want help.
" The annual rate of mortality last week was 44 per 1,000
in London ; 24 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin ; 21 in
Bristol, 19 in Birmingham, 47 in Liverpool, 38 in Man-
chester, 27 in Salford, 27 in Sheffield 33 in Leeds, 25 in
Hull, NJ in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 31 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 14th inst., when the temperature was OA deg. Fahren-
heit lower than in the same week in London, where the
rate was 28 per 1,000.
" In Liverpool, of the 440 deaths returned last week 87
were referred to cholera, against 45 fatal cases in the pre-
vious week. The 45 deaths in Southampton, showing an
annual rate of mortality equal to 43 per 1,000, included 24
from cholera, showing a decrease of 5 upon those of the
previous week. The following deaths were certified as from
cholera in the remaining large towns of England furnishing
weekly returns :—Manchester and Salford, 8 ; Bristol, 2 ;
Sheffield, 2; Leeds, 4 ; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 2; and Hull,
3. No fatal case of cholera is noticed in the Birmingham
returns."

A grant of money has been made by the Treasury
to the Department of Health for the purpose of conducting
a special aeries of experiments end researches in connexion
with the present outbreak of cholera. Mr. Simon sal con-
duct the inqu'ry.
Vichy is in a ferment of excitement. Bands are
playing every species of music, and houses are decorated
in honour of the " Sauveur de l'Ehrepe," as is inscribed
on several of the flags. The casino, park, gardens, &c.,
blaze with coloured lights, and the Bmperor, who has gone
down for a few days of peace and quiet, is expected to
patronise a retreat atm fiambecticz, a bell, and no end of
theatrical representations. La Pastille Beisolton is to
come out in fresh costumes, the young ladies in very
&collet& dresses to be adorned with the device " Tout
pour l'Empereur."
The following changes have been made in the
Council of Lew Reporting :--Sir R. Palmer, M.P., and Sir
Robs: P. Collier, M.P., the late Attorney and Solicitor
General, have ceased to le ex officio members, and their
places as such members have been supplied by the present
Attorney
_and Solicitor-General, Sir Hugh M. Giros,
and Sir William Bovill, M.P. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, upon him
elevation to the bench as Lord Chief Heron, cawing to be
a member of Lincoln's-ben, has vacated hie seat at the
council and his elm of permanent chairmen. The benches
of Lincoln's-inn have appointed Sir Roundell Palmer in
place of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and the council upon the motion
of Mr. Daniel, Q.C., the vice-cheinnan, have appointed Sir
Roundell Palmer their permanent chairman.