The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-29 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

( From the General Board of Health, Whitehall.)
• NEWCASTLE.
Deaths on the 27th of September :
Cholera ....
Diarrhoea..

35

The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea
in Newcastle, during the present outbreak, has been
1,280. In the same period, viz., the first 27 days during
the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in 1831-2, the
number of deaths was 204.

GATESHEAD UNION.
Deaths on the 26th of September :
Cholera
Diarrhoea

The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea
in Gateshead to the present date has been 327. During
the same period, viz., the first 20 days in 1831-2, the
deaths amounted to 133.
Thirteen deaths from cholera are reported this day
from Howden. One medical officer and two visitors
have been asked for to superintend preventive measures.
Dr. Milroy was in attendance yesterday on the Gene-
ral Board of Health at their offices, Whitehall, on a con-
sultation relative to the adoption of precautionary mea-
sures with respect to cholera in the metropolis.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, TIIESDAY.—The alarm in the
public mind appears to be subsiding here ; but the dread
of infection prevails greatly in the neighbouring villages,
and operates injuriously on the trade of the town. On
Saturday the pitmen of several of the collieries in Nor-
thumberland were forbidden to go or send to Newcastle
to make their usual weekly purchases on pain of being
dismissed from their employment ; and they were obliged
to make their marketing either at Shields or Morpeth.
Scarcely any of the country carriers came to the town
last week.

SHEFFIELD.
A fatal case of cholera occurred in this town on Sun-
day. The locality of the outbreak is in Brown-street,
which is situate in a low part of the town, and in the
vicinity of a large open sewer. It was in this same lo-
cality that the epidemic appeared to rage with the
greatest violence in its previous visitations. The case
above referred to is that of a girl named Margaret Dwyer.
She was seized on Saturday with 'violent sickness and
purging, but her parents, who are poor Irish people,
neglected to call in medical aid. In the course of a few
hours a state of collapse ensued, and the girl was rapidly
sinking before a medical man was called in. Mr.
Parker, surgeon, was then sent for, but before his arrival
she had breathed her last. Since then a sister of the
girl has been similarly attacked, and now lies in a very
precarious state, and is not expected to recover. At
the last visitation extraordinary exertions were made by
the various public bodies to prevent the spread of cholera
in the town, and such was the success which attended
those efforts, that notwithstanding there were in Sheffield
5,319 epidemic cases, not one of these fell into collapse
or died, a great proof of the efficiency of the preventive
measures adopted.
CHOLERA IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
Yesterday Mr. Brent held an inquest in the House of
Correction, Clerkenwell, on Arcellin Tourrard, a fo-
reigner, an inmate of the prison, whose death resulted
from Asiatic cholera. It appeared from the evidence
that deceased, who was undergoing six months' impri-
sonment for felony, was of a very dlicate constitution.
On Saturday morning he was seized with cramp, vomiting,
purging, and the usual symptoms of cholera, when he
was immediately, by order of Dr. Smyles, the junior
house physician, removed to the infirmary, where, not-
withstanding the most energetic measures to arrest the
disease, he gradually sank and died, within seventeen
hours of the first attack. Dr. Smyles stated he was of
opinion that deceased died of Asiatic cholera. Verdict
accordingly. Upon inquiries made subsequently to the
inquest, it appeared that the prison was in the most
healthy condition, and that out of 1,300 inmates only
one was in the infirmary, and his disease was bronchitis.