The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-12 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

THE METROPOLIS.— There are strong grounds for
entertaining the hope that the pestilence has done its
worst, "and that it is passing away from amongst us.
There is scarcely a parish in or near London which
has not been visited by the disease ; and although the
mortality occasioned by it has fallen very far short of
that which the metropolis experienced from the same
cause in 1849, the ravages it has committed are
frightful to contemplate, and ought to convey a very
solemn lesson on many matters which have hitherto
received but little attention. The establishment of an
efficient board of health, renewed energy on the part
of the Commissioners of Sewers, and the strong de-
termination of local boards and parochial authorities
not only to suggest and recommend, but to enforce,
habits of cleanliness in their respective districts, are
amongst the means to which we may look with ccnfi-
deuce for preventing in future the approach of a
plague which experience seems to teach us finds most
victims in localities where it is specially encouraged.
The fact has been often stated, but ma he repeated,
that the majority of cases in which the
cholorhas
triumphed over its victims have been those in which
the advice of properly-qualified medical practitioners-'
has been disregarded, or where persons have indulged
in the highly-dangerous where
of doctoring them-
selves.
ST. BOTOLPH, ALDGATE WITHOUT.— Yesterday rn rn
ing, Mr. John J. Harris, the registrar of Sr. BotoolP•
Aldgate Without, received information cf the follow-
Mg fatal cases of Asiatic cholera :—Mary Schlescher.
aged 33 years, and her infant daughter, died at 2G:
Lower East Smithfield, after a brief attack ; Margaret
Haggarty, aged 35 years, of No. 4, Christopher-
court, Rosemary-lane—the deceased was the wife of a
labourer employed in th© London Docks ; Peter
Ryan, aged 24 years, a sugar-baker, of No. 5, Dock-
street, Lenvin-street ; Jane Regal), aged 53 years, the
widow of a mechanic—the deceased died, after a short
illness, at No. 5, Windmill-court, Rosemary-lane ;
John Barrett, aged 50 years, a fireman recentl em-
ployed on board the Royal Adelaide steam-packet Iron-
gate-wharf, adjoining the Tower of London. Elizabeth
Gordon, aged 23 years, a charwoman, of No. 29,
Royal Mint-street, died suddenly from the same disease.
A respectable tradesman, named Edmund Dowling, an
extensive freeholder arid grocer, of No. 30, King-street,
Tower-hill, expired yesterday morning from an attack of
cholera. A young woman died on Sunday from cholera,
at No. 6, Three King court, Minories. A tradesman
named Hadlow, of Jury-street, Aldgate, fell a victim to
,he epidemic, after a short illness on the same day.
Another male person, named Cross, lately residing at
49, Minories, died on Saturday from the disease, and
was buried on Sunday at the Victoria-park Cemetery.
Great complaints were made yesterday among the poor
residing. in Peter's-court, Rosemary-lane, relative to the
deficiency of water, which is dipped from the.gutters for
household use. It appears that the landlord has neglected
to furnish the houses with proper conveniesice for the
supply of water, which was formerly supplied by the
New River Company, but for some time past the pre-
mises have been without it. A general meeting of the
guardians will be held on Wednesday evening at the
vestry-room, Upper East Smithfield.
ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.—No deaths were re-
ported to have taken place yesterday in the Wardeur-
street and Golden-square districts of this parish, where
the disease has raged with so much severity. On Sun-
day no deaths occurred, as far as we have been able to
ascertain ; but it was a melancholy day, on account of
the number of funerals which took place.
ST. MAGYLEBONE.—The number of. deaths for the
week was 11. There was an enormous increase of
diarrhcea, over the past week, but the proportion of cho-
lera is small.

ST. SAVIOUR'S ITNION AYD CHRIST CHURCH DISTRICTS.
—The mortality from Asiatic cholera in St. Saviour's anu
'Christ Church for the week ending Saturday was as
excessive as the previous week, but it is to be observed
that those weeks have been the heaviest yet experienced.
The number of deaths amounted to 81 ; 56 in St. Sa-
viour's and 25 in Christ Church, the heaviest visitation
that parish has experienced.
In the New-cut two persons diedyesterday morning, also
another person in York-street. The disease is not confined
to any precise locality; and a remarkable instance is stated
that in one house in the Blackfriai•s-road, on the occa-
sion of the epidemic in 1849, the occupier and his wife
both died, and the same fact has taken place on the pre-
sent occasion. There are a very great many cases of
diarrhoea, but owing to the activity of the medical offi-
cers, and the steps taken by the board of guardians, by
arrangements with the medical men in every district to
supply medicines gratis, it is found that the inhabitants
have become aware of the importance, on any unfavour-
able attack, of making immediate application for relief,
the omission of which has caused the increase of cases
that have turned out fatal.

ST. MART, NEITINGTON----ST. PETER'S, WALWORTII
DIBTRICT.—In Hill-street there were four very bad cases
on Sunday, one of which terminated fatally to a fine
little fellow about eight years of age, of the name of
William Hazard, son of. Mr. Hazard, No. 11 in that
street. At Nos. 1 and 2, Hope Cottages, two females
were attacked, and to hopes are entertained of their
recovery.

THE ROTAL FREE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday two more
deaths from Asiatic cholera occurred in the cholera
,yards of this hospital ; one of the sufferers having oul.y
been removed but a short time previously from Islington.
The courts and alleys of this parish have, owing to the
defective drainage, suffered very severely, and hardly a
day has.passed since the outbreak of the epidemic but a
case of cholera has been reported.
The sitting magistral..e at Marlborough-street police-
cnurt. Mr. Bingham, yesterday received the following
note :

Dear Sir,—When the first grief and stupor which
:oust have attended the horrible calamities in the neigh-
lmurhood of Golden-square shall have moderated, I hare
no doubt that many pour creatures will apply at your
office for aid to meet the distress caused by funeral ex-
putires, however small, and the cessation of custom in their
little shops. -To enable Sou to meet some of those cases, if
you will with your usual kindness and humanity oblige
we by doing so, I enclose a small sum, which I heartily
wish I had the power of making greater, and if you will
.lo um the favour to acknowledge its receipt in the daily
rapers as a contribution in aid of the sufferers in the
neighbourhood of Golden-square from ' P.', I shall be very
thankful. Dear sir, faithfully, P."
Enclosure, a 501. Bank of England note.
A cheque fur 31. has been received from "M," on be-
half of the dispensary in Gerard-street, Soho.
GLOUCESTER.—It is with regret that we have to an-
nounce that Gloucester is now visited by that much
dreaded and pestilential epidemic, Asiatic cholera. As
yet it has not been productive of any very serious con-
quences—two deaths only having occurred, while about
five or six cases have come under successful medical
treatment.

SCOTLAND.—OnIy one new case of cholera has oc-
curred in Edinburgh since Tuesday, but two of those
previously reported have proved fatal. In Glasgow
within these few days there has been a considerable
diminution in the number of cases, although the mor-
tality tables for the month of August show the burials
from cholera to have been 1,023, the total number of deaths
being 2,288. The average monthly mortality is under
1,000. The Greenock mortality bill for August gives 52
deaths from cholera. The ravages of the malady have been
very severe in Campsie and Kirkintilloch. In the former
village, which contains a population of 3,000, there have
been, in the course of four or five weeks, about sixty
deaths, while in the latter, which contains about 6,000
inhabitants, there have been, since Wednesday fortnight,
between 40 and 50, and very few recoveries. In Ayr
there have been stray fatal cases of severe diarrhcea, ter-
minating in decided cholera, for several months, and of
late a few cases of cholera of unmistakeable Asiatic type;
but these have not been numerous enough to create any
general alarm. The disease has made its appearance in
different parts of the county of Argyll. At Oban there
have been three deaths from the epidemic ; at Furnace,
near Inverary, four ; at East Tarbet, four ; and at Ar-
drishaig, one, if not two, deaths. Since its appearance
in Dumfries, about a fortnight ago, there have been 9
cases and 4 deaths. The official report for Perth, from
the outbreak of the epidemic six or eight weeks ago, up
to Wednesday, gives 55 cases and 21 deaths. There
have been 10 recoveries, and 24 cases..remain undertreatment. Several fatal cases of severe marrlicea, if not
cholera are reported from Montrose, and in Aberdeen
the disease still continues.—Scotainan.