The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

surrounded. They can discern much to objec'
to in Dr. Moore or Mr. Coroner Humphrey,
but they can see nothing particularly ob.
noxious in Hollybush-gardens or other chosen
localities, where it is next to impoosible for a child.
to live. There is war in Bethnal-green, and there is
death. The authorities are not disposed to attack
the fever, but they are determined to attack
v the
doctor. Time and energy required for the saving
of precious lives are de-voted to the raking up of
accusations against the facer of health who has
sanitary evils of the
dared to expose the prevalent
death is doing
be its
parish. In the meantime rrors is not to
terrible work. The King of To,
ns and captious
alketh in dark-
beaten back by angry resolutio
charges. The pestilence which w,
ness, and the arrow which flieth by day, are de-
ckling. It is
stroying the young child and the au
not too much to say that public feeling is outraged.
by the every-day history of Bethia al-green. A.
am using under
parochial squabble may be very
certain circumstances, but not in th.e. midst ef
a graveyard, where little coffins are bet ng conti-
mothers
nually dropped into the ground, and when,
nod by
•
are weeping over poisoned babes—poise
official contumacy. If the vestry and the guar-
dians of Bethnal-green are so infatuated as to
think that the community at large is looking upon
their parish with the same eyes as themselves ,they
are greatly mistaken. The public are not to be
gulled into the idea that all this uproar is occa-
sioned simply by a fussy, impetuous, intriguing
medical officer or popularity - hunting coronar.
Society at large knows better than this. The
facts do not rest upon the sole testimony of Dr.-
Moore. The senior surgeon of the Great Northern
Hospital, being summoned as a witness into court,
deposes to the sanitary history of one particular
family in Hollybush-gardens. Out of six children
in this family, all originally healthy, four are
attacked with scarlatina, two die and two remain
in a very precarious state. The two that died did.
not succumb to the fever, but "died during the'
ordinary stage of convalescence." The little strec gth
which the fever left them, and which would :have
borne them up into health again under ordinarily
favourable circumstances, was insufficient to enable
them to contend with a malaria so intense that—.lo
we are told—the adult population were thereb:,q
robbed of sleep during the night, and could not;
enter their backyards without being made sick«
The witness to whom we have just alluded stated
in his evidence that (in reference to Hollybush-
gardens) "the soil in all directions seemed saturated'
by the exudations of the cesspools, " and the air
simply stunk." This gentleman (Mr, John Gay)
further stated that " children attacked by zvmotie
diseases springing from such a source would have
hardly a chance of struggling against their effects
in an atmosphere so foul." As remedial mea-
sures he recommended that the privies shouid be
trapped, an abundant water supply introduced,
drainage laid down, and the very ground iteelf
deodorised. Finally, Mr. Gay advised that the
convalescent children should be removed, "se
otherwise their death was inevitable." Do tha
parochial authorities believe all this ? Or do they
think that they are mere fictions of some heated
imagination P Hollybush-gardens have been com-
plained of in Dr. Moore's official report to the
guardians a month ago, and " he believed that he
had made a similar report some months back." Fur-
ther, " he was not aware that any steps had been
taken in consequence." So far as professional evi-
dence goes, Dr. Samuel Pearce also prof: ounces
Hollybush-gardens " decidedly noxious to health."
The jury decided in this particular case, thai the
poor little victim of five years old died from the mor-
tal effects of the impure atmosphere which pre-
veiled in the locality, and they further declared
that "great blame is due to the parochial autho-
rities, inasmuch as they ought to have remedied
such a state of things long ago." In addition
to this, the jury condemned the property in
question as unfit for the abode of human
beings, and declared—" That the inhabitants
ought to quit until the said Hollybush-gardens
be deodorised and rendered fit for human habi-
tation." The verdict is very special and very distinct.
If after this and all preceding admonitions, the autho-
rities of Bethnal-green are still determined to stand
by their nuisances, some vigorous measures need be
enforced to bring these brazen boobies to their
senses. Fever is not a thing to be slighted, particu-
larly in a large and crowded city. The disease mial
spread, and Heaven knows how far it may go. la
a lecture given by Dr. Moore on Friday night, lie
made it sufficiently clear for popular apprehension
that scarlet fever naturally and inevitably resulted
from a certain gas which abounds in cesspool
via. "But the disease so generated was contagious.
Its virulence was indicated by the instance in which
he noticed a child playing over a sewer grating, an
in four hours that child was dead. As for the con-
tagious character of the disease, he had brought borne
the infection to his own family. Disease of this tie'
ture is not to be trifled with, and the authorities of
a single parish must not be allowed either to slaugh-
ter the poor by official neglect in their own juris-
diction, or to let loose upon the metropolis an in-
fectious disease which may ultimately introduce
suffering and death where the originating causes are
not permitted to exist. Bethnal-green is an offen-
der against every metropolitan parish cleaner than
itself—and we hope it is not possible to find a dirtier.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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COLCHESTER—Nov. 28.
There was a fair supply of wheat at our market to-daY,
and the demand was good. No change in prices.
Wheat, white 44s 50s Beans, Mazagan .. 28s 3
30
,4
24
3°
red 40s 44s middle & small.32s
Barley
Oats . ... . 20s 25s grey ...... 34s 360

GLOUCESTER—Nov. 28.
There was a plentiful show of English wheat
for which the currencies of last week were maintained._
Foreign wheat held for an advance of is on the prices of
last week. Oats, barley, beans, and peas were dull, but
unaltered in value. to-day,

CHELMSFORD—Nov. 27.
At this corn exchange to-day there was a m
in advance
moderate busi-
ness done. The prices of las-, week were ls
for fine sorts. Other sorts firm, but not dearer. Barley
in large supply, at .1s per quarter cheaper. A fair busi"
ness in other articles, and prices unchanged.
Wheat, old white 30s 47s Yeas, Partridge, „. 36s 390
new 44s 48s White 38s 3.?!
old red....34s 40s Boiling
22s 31s 390 '!-'',
new 38s 42s Dun 330
_4"
Barley 27s 36s Ditto new .. .. --0 .---'-ogg
Chevalier ..28s 39s Beans, Tick, d..
.34s
Grinding
Malt. new. ..
61s 67s Harrow Ticks ..35s 4"
Chevalier . 64s 69s
Oats 20s 288 Mazagan. .......30a 0"
new..---s Z.'9.1

KIRKCALDY GRAIN—Nov.'2B. „at our
We had large supplies of all descriptions of gra': is per
market to-day, which sold freely. Wheat and oats
qr higher than last week.
Wheat. Barley. Oats-
First....34s Od I 25s 6d I 16s Od
Second ..36a Od 27s Od 17s 6d
Od 30s Od 19s Od

COAL D
Prism of Coal per Ton at

,SET.

----- - -
the close of the market.

e. d.
Hastings Hartley ....16 6
Lambert's West Hart-

Walls End. 6
Kelloe .......... .18 n
South Kenos.. ........ 18 nv
Hartlepool ......... • •1,8,0
East Hartlepool ...... A
Hettoll .............. 19 ;
Wharucliffe ......... .11 "6
Belmont ...... . ....... 17
Braddylr Hatton ..... 18
South Het ton ......... 19
Russers Hatton ...... 18
Haugh .......... 18 u
Cassop ...............18 9
17 8 6
Tunstall . .....
North Hart1ep001......16 0
>t, 82 ; sold, 76.

ley 15 3
Wylam 17 0
Holywell ..17 0
West Hartley ..15 6
Eden Main 17 9
Cowpen Hartley 15 6
Davison's West Hart-

ley 16 6
Walker Primrose 14 9
Tanfield Moor Butes 15 6

Walls End.
Haswell _l9 0
Ships at mark,

Births.
htha2
6udutiahtluit
ltatt
.e7t:.At,he Chilton
BLEWITT.—On the 28th ult., at Pinner, Mrs. Blewitt,
• oi
a daughter.
CH
the wife
Cromwell-place, 1'8"
AyNctirat
TB: s
TD013.0111
it tie:
t 2
h 207 6fet Rectory,
of the Rev. E. M. Chaplin, of a daughter.
d
wingfield, of a son, lion. Mrs.

Marriages.
BEUCE—WOODRUFPK.—On the 28th ult., at St. Earl3'3)ls:
Church, Kensington, William Bruce, Esq., M-I),''„°: ter
The Crescent, Kensington, to Charlotte, third daughter
of Mrs. JohnWoodruffe, of 11, Richmond-terrace,
water.
ter'l4
RICARDO—PEI:Mi.—On the 28th ult , at Saint e 0 d
Baton-square, Francis Ricardo Es 'of The Friall',.;ao
Perry.V
lindsor, to Louisa Jane, second daughter of

BEA.MAN.—On the 29th Dnieta,tahtsil.
ammersmith,
30.
, Geo.
Hule Beaman, late of Henrietta-street, Covent-Prdenl
COCK 39
—On the 29th ult., at the Court Lodge,
aged .
Kent, Albert Cock, Esq., aged 40. 'rhos,
JOYNSON.—On the 27th ult , at Liscard, Cheshire, ----
Joynson, Esc., aged 55. . , TAlkilst
LUKIN.—On the 27th ultat Putney, Cecil E. G. '-
~
Esq., aged 53. Koss
MALONE.—On the 27th ult., at the Royal Naval ...-
tat, Plymouth, Edmund Malone, Esq., It.N. iti,shalit
MESBAN —On the 28th ult., at Canonbury, 11.C..'—''
Esq., of 16, America-square, aged 58. Appledoroo
t Dodge,
WINGFIELD.—On the 26th ult., at Maid's Moreton
Buckingham, the Hon. Mrs. Edward Wingfield.

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"T r; We,
of No. il2, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN ()Mee 141 .;
Strand, _n the ['Menet of the 3avoy. II the COlldqf"
bliddleeex,—Tuesday, December 1, 180.