The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

CHOLERA.

The General Board of Health has just leaned
advice to the local board' as to the precautions that ought at
once to be adopted with reference to epidemic cholera, the
advent of which may be regarded as • probability
from the cirennatanoe of its having already made its
appearance in several of the Baltic ports and at Hamburg.
The unusual fatality from diarehor to London and other
Arta of England which has prevailed during the last three
month', is the same premonitory symptom which has or
vevious occasions heralded the vie tations of cholera. The
following are among the most important suggestions
offered by the board i—" First, that the air within and about
dwelling-places be not contaminated with offensive organic
effluvia, such as rime when the houses themselves ere ill
vacillated, overcrowded, and unclean, or when their refire
is not properly removed from them hy drainage or other-
wise, or when any filthy accumulations exist in their neigh-
bourhood, or when the local sewerage u defective. Secondly,
that the public supply of water be, as far as possible,
unpolluted by any kind of animal or vegetable impurity;
for where cholera is present or impending, no house can be
considered tele for habitation in which there to any offensive
smell of animal reface, or of other putrefactive animal or
Mitilbirng ilattai;altlng no water
ere eows
isibsononnften the safe
ass wifetz
rivers and with well. in the neighbourhood of hours) any
habitual discharge of towu refuse or any accidental soakage
or leakage from drains or cer pools."
Full details are also given of the powers premed by the
local boards under the public beulib and Dunmore remove(
arm, and which ought stringently to be exerciesd at this tints.
They relate principally to matters of sewerage and drainage,
and generally to the prevention or removal of all impurities
which taint the atmnephcre or hinder the diffusion of per-
arid and domeetic charmer. The following ohervatioem
can scarcely be too widely circulated and regarded at the
present moment
' It is possible that no human efforta truly suffice to avert
the course of that epidemic ferment which thin, at certain
intervals of time, comes, as it were, to test the euffleieney of
our sanitary defences. But public authorities, armed with
the carting powers of the law, can do almost everything to
render the mysterious influence innocoons by removing those
local conditions through which alone It is enabled to destroy
life in this climate.
"Local Doers may be wall assured that, if any preset-
tin= adopted by them against cholera should hereafter seem
to have been superfluous an red thou to that epidemic—if the
suggested posaibility of another visitation should happily
not now be realised—the prier and cart which may have
bees given to sanitary improvement will in no degree have
been routed ; sines undoubtedly ouch exertions will have
borne fruit in preventing other diseove, and in honoring both
the misery and the expense, the watts of life and the waste
of money, which are now the COL br,uence of defective sani-
tary arrangements."

ATTENDANCE AT THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS.—The
attendance of one of the jnages at ilmmlare is confined to
Tuesday sad Friday for the present.
SCENE AT AN EXECUTION.—A horrible scene•
(says the Water Garetts) took place at Hanover a few days
us, on the occasion of on execution. lot only did a large
crowd, many of them carrying bottlee of brandy, assemble
and commit gross ezorstes, but a numbs of individuals sub-
ject to stilepsy rushed to the scallold at the moment the
criminals head fell to drink the Hood, the popular belief
bring that it is a cure for 00.04, and the executions
readily gave it to them This Itiglittul some has caused an
immense seewition in Hanover. sal petitions to the govern-
, meat praying 'bat execute us way u•s kr.gte he public have
been nuweromly signed.