The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA IN MALTA.

VALETTA, Oct. 11.
It will be seen from the accompanying daily re-
ports that the cholera still lingers among us, pro-
bably owing in some degree to a return of very
sultry and oppressive weather. The cases continue
to be almost entirely confined to the poorest villages.
Indeed, the epidemic may be said throughout the
present visitation to have spared the wealthier
classes. The alarm which its advent at first created
has long since subsided, and many persons who
took the opportunity of travelling on the Conti-
nent are returning to Malta. It is only justice
to say, however, that we have witnessed none
of those scenes of blind panic which ap-
pear to have occurred elsewhere. There have
been no instances of families abandoning their
cholera-stricken relatives, of officials neglecting
their posts, of priests refuring to assist the dying ;
and if it has happened that a medical man has
shown the white feather, such has by no means
been the rule. The Relief Committee, who have sat
daily at the Exchange, under the presidentship of
an honourable member of Council, deserve great
praise, they having by their personal example and
influence done much to allay the fears of the popu-
lation, and, with the funds charitably placed at their
disposal, have been enabled by timely medical assist-
ance and wholesome food to relieve a great amount
of distress.

The following are the returns for the civil corn-
munity of Malta since my last communication was
despatched :

Attacks. Deaths.

Oct. 5
• 6 ... 4 ... 4
„ 7 ... 6
„ 8 ... 1 0
The week's returns for
Attacks. Deaths.

Attacks. Deaths.
Oct. 9 ... 5 ... 1
„ 10 ... 3 ... 3
„ 11 ... 6 ... 0

Gozo ar© as follows :

Oct. 4 ... 8 GOO ---4.
" 5 ... 4 ... 5
" 6 ... 3 ... 1
" 7 ... 3 ... 0

Attacks. Deaths.
Oct. 8 ... 7 ... 0
„ 9 ... 8 ;.. 2
„10 ... 3. ... 0

The total number of cases during the week in
Malta shows a diminution compared with the pre-
vious week of 13 attacks and 15 deaths. In Gozo
the decline during the same period has been seven
attacks and four deaths. I have not heard of any
fresh cases in the regiments, which after the first
rains were removed from their temporary encamp-
ments into their old quarters. But a soldier of the
Bth Regt., in Pembroke Barracks, was attacked the
day before yesterday and died in a few hours. He
was a man of very irregular habits, and was always
undergoing some kind of punishment for breaches of
military discipline. He had recovered from an attack
of cholera some time ago at Gibraltar. The barracks
are situated at St. George's Bay, in one of the
healthiest spots in the island.
The Governor has issued a notice prohibiting the
importation of all kinds of cattle, as well as horses
and dogs, from the United Kingdom, in consequence
of the cattle disease existing there. The same no-
tice also orders that s 001, hides, horns, bones, and
hoofs coming from Great Britain and Ir eland shall
be subjected to sanitary measures for the purpose of
disinfection.

Clean bills of health are now issued at Alexandria,
but gessels are not yet admitted to pratique on account
of cholera still existing at Cairo.

The Cattle Plague,

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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE,

Yesterday the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions for
the West Riding began in the Town-hall, Leeds,
Mr. Wickham, M.P., presiding. A letter was read
from Mr. T. G. Baring, of the Home-office, dated
Oct. 12, in which that gentleman said he was directed
by Secretary Sir George Grey to inform the magis-
trates that it had occurred to him that it might be
desirable that the attention of the justices of the
West Riding should be directed at these quarter
sessions to the order of the Lords of the Privy
Council of the 22d ult., with reference to the cattle
plague. After reciting the terms of the 19th section
of that order, by which, after notice, justices can
make it unlawful to bring animals to a market or
fair from infected districts, the latter pointed out
that the power given therein had already been exer-
cised in several instances, but it had been repre-
sented to Sir G. Grey that the advantages to be
derived from it would be materially impaired if,
while the power was exercised with reference to
some markets or fairs, no action was taken with
respect to others in the neighbourhood. It was
clearly desirable that the various local authorities
should, as far as possible, act in concert,with a view
to the effectual exercise of their power ; and Sir G.
Grey would be happy to be the means of communica-
tion, if necessary, between the justices of the West
Riding and other local authorities, as defined in the or-
der,with respectto anyproceedingswhich the justices
might think it expedient to take on this subject. As
it was obviously important that ample information
of any order made for the purpose of preventing ani-
mals being sent to any market or fair should be
given to the public, not only in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the market or fair, but also in the dis-
trict from which the market or fair was supplied,
Mr. Baring said he was to suggest that means should
be taken for the widest possible circulation of infor-
mation by means of the chief constable of the county
or counties concerned, or otherwise, as the justices
might think expedient. No discussion ensued upon
the reading of the letter, but the Court directed that
a copy of it should be forwarded to the clerk of the
peace to every petty sessional division in the Riding.
The chief constable stated, however, that according
to the information he received the cattle plague was
extending in certain localities.

OXFORD CO LINTY GAOL.—At the Michalemas
Quarter Session held yesterday, and which an unusually
large number of magistrates attended, the deputy governor
of the county gaol (Mr. Calverly) was unanimously elected
governor, in the room of Major Ogilvie, resigned. At the
same time Mr. Mores, who had officiated as clerk at the
gaol for the last sixteen years, was unanimously elected
deputy governor.
ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.—A serious
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a labourer,
employed at the steam factory department s
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by machinery, when his clothing by some means
in a drilling machine), and he was whirled
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breaking three of his ribs and fracturing shTho
sufferer was immediately removed to the Royal Marine In-
firmary, where he now remains in a precarious condition.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of
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arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines,
which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in
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and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study how
to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood,
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lids' and Infants'
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children it h the best substitute for human milk. Dr.
Routh,
physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and
Children—the.best authority on bitch matters —in his admir-
able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub-
stances, th :t which comes closest t) milk in its composition
is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con-
aining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of
potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle which
is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there-
fore, that under its influence many children affected with
atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt 17,
have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest
advant ,ge in such cases ; and so far as I may judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory,
from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.—
In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b„ 4s. 6d ; 51b., 118.; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b.
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John's-wcod, London ; and all re, pectable grocers and che-
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