The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-03 00:00:00

CHOLERA lii'' LONDfiN.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.

NITIIBER OF DEATHS FROII ALL OAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 29.

Zymotic Diseases
422
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
47
Tubercular Diseases .........
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses . l4l
Diseases of the Heart and Biood-vessels 34
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration..
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
• of Digestion .......
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 7O
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 1712
Diseases of the Joints, Bones. and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
3
Premature Birth and Debility 34
Atr0phy......................................... :
Olddd Age
Suen
-Violence, PrivatiCm, Cold, and Intemperance........ 43
Causes not specified ....................................... 2
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
• Enumerated, spending week in the
1851.
177 of 183. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts..... 393,256
East Districts!. ...... 485,522 ...• "9
South Districts ...... 616,685

Totals ......... 2,362,236
Ma1e5......................
Females .......

971 1,219
626
593

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Ma1e5.....................................
Female's ..................................

Total

[Anruanszmarr.] Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for
valuable and extraordinarY improvements in the most power-
ful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and
Perspective Glasses(glazed with Munic German Glass), to know
the distances of objects viewed through them—of great im-
portance to the army,-navy, and others. Messrs. S. and B.
Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Ob-
serve—opposite the York Hotel.— These telescopes possess
such extraordinary powers that some 3a inches, with an ex-
tra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's
1
ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be
851.—Valnable,
seeu a person's countenance three miles and a half distant,
and an object from 12 to 14 miles. They are of larger and all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.—The Royal Ex-
hibition,
powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which
a person can be seen- and known la miles distant ; they answer
newly-invented, very small,
j every purpose ou the race-course, and at the opera houses,
' country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 5 to 6 miles.
CRYSTAL PALACE, Wednesday.— One Shilling Day : They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
Admission at the doors, 11,686 ; admission by season sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera,
tickets, 847 ; total, 12,533. race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful
Oun POPULATION.—It appears by the census that not power ;an object can be clearly seen from 10 to 12 miles
half the adult population of London were born in the TdihElitant. Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power.
metropolis. If the recruits marched back to their vie%vnalatieaeb,le.ailva,,tage derived from
andth—dis invention
strengthened,
athatnd
native soil, London would be left with less than half the
pmeninognsimaip-cateadbliesdptr
to employ
very aged their sight at the ost
crown-up men and women that are in it. The Irish in minute occupation—can see with theselenses of a much less mag-
London were found to be 108,543 ; the S"tch, 30,401. nifying power—and they do not require the frequent changes
Of every -100,000 persons born in England, 271 were to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Deaf-
found to be in Scotland when the census was taken ; ness—New tiiscov,ry._The Organic Vibrator, an extraordi-
but of every 100,000 persons born in Scotland, 4,723 nary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness,
were in Englat.d ; or, as the Reistrar-General has it, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything of the
".the tendency of people in Scotland to enter E bcrn - . ,
of
kind that has been, or probalily ever can be, produced.
land is 17 Being the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible ;it
times as great as the tendency of the English
to etenables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at
eater Scotland." There were 56665 forei '
gners resi-
dent in Great public assemblies • the unpleasant sensation of singing noises
,
Britain ; half of them .were in London, in the
which contained
ears is entirely removed ; affordsall the and it assist-
above 1,000 Russians at the time of the
census. • ance that possibly "could be, desired,-39, Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, Obtierve—oppoilite the York Hotel.

The return made by the Registar-General shows that
from 1,003 in the preceding week the deaths in London
, ' t ',IDIOT, 1, 2
weeksl 9inc-trhrettsfiwreoenk_itnr
d to ended
3or thaeY.se.alrns
1
(1844 53) the average number was 1,072, which, if raised
in proportion to increase of population, becomes 1,179.
The present return is therefore in excess of the estimated
amount.
The zvrnotic class of diseases, which numbered 293
deaths in the previous week, rose last week to 422.
The increase is caused by cholera, which has made con-
siderable progress since the 26 deaths occurred which
were announced in last report. It was fatal last week
to 133 persons, n ,melt', to 42 children under 15 years
of age, 78 men and women between that age and 60
years, and to 13 persons 60 years old and upwards.
Seventy-one, or more than half the number of cases, oc-
curred on the south side of the Thames, 3i in the
east districts, and the remainder in various other parts
of the metropolis, as far as its western extremity
Diarrhoea increased from 58 to 84 in the last two weeks.
Toe districts of Kensington, Chelsea, Se. George, Han-
over-square, Westminster, and St. Martins-in-the-Fields,
with a population of 376,247, had only 8 deaths from
cholera; awl the same is to be said of the north districts,
with a population of 490,396, viz., Marylebone, Hamp-
stead, St. Pancras, and Hackney Union. In the cen-
tral
districts of the Strand, Clerkenwell, St. Luke's, East
and West London, and the City of ',olden, there were
11 deaths.
The following are some of the cases returned by the
local registrars of deaths :
WHITEOHAPEL—ALDGATE.—At 10, Rose-court, Up.
per East Smithfield, on 28th July, the son of a labourer,
aged 3 years, "cholera (30 hours)." Dr. Einzlish in his
certificate says :—" The water-closets in Rose-court,
owing to their not being emptied, made the court smell
horribly." Mr. Harris a lds—" Another child is ill. The
landlord has for years bid defiance to the parish autho-
rities ; he has been warned and summoned and fined by
the mazistrates at the Thames police. He promises
to let the soil into the drain to-morrow. Thirteen
houses are in thin small narrow court ; very small
confined yards to each house; and I believe every room
is nearly filled with poor Irish. About 50 houses near
the above are in the same wretched condition as Rose-
court."

ST. GEORGE-IN-THR-EAST—ST.MARY.—At 11, Den-
mark-street, on 22d July, a dock-labourer, aged 40 years,
" siatic-cholera, (10 hours)." Mr. Armstrong, the re-
gistrar, 'writes--" The deceased had lately bad little
employment, and the whole family have, in consequence,
had extremely poor living. The houses have recently
been connected with the sewers, and some days before
the deceased was attacked a cesspool was emptied close
to thu room in whit , he lived or slept. During the
operation he complained of diarrheas."
In the same sub-district, at 19, Denmark-street, on
the 28th July, the widow of a mariner, aged 70 years,
" Asiatic, cholera (23 hours)." The registrar adds :
"Decea-e,l was resident in Stepney, and on a visit to
her son for the day, when she was taken ill. Was pre-
viously well. Her son and his wife live in a front room
at the too of the house, and state that the stench aris-
ing from bone-burning on the opposite side of the street,
renders the room so offensive that they must leave the
house ; this complaint is also made by the neighbours.
Tile medical attendant state that this case was not at-
tended by any premonitory diarrhoea."
In the sub-district of Mile-end Old-town, Stepney, at
9, Dunstan's-road, on 26th July, the son of a blacksmith,
aged 3 years, "cholera (8 hours)."
In the south districts 71 deaths from cholera are re-
porte.l. The following are some of the cases :---
OLAVE —ST. JOHN.—At 19, Bermondsey-street,
on 26th July, the daughter of a labourer, aged 5 years,
" cnolera Asiatie (41 hours)."
It, the same suhdistrict, at 12, Bermondsey-street,
on 29::h July, a railway porter, aged 34 years. " malig-
nant cholera (12 hours)," Me medical assistant adds :
-" Was at his employment in perfect health a few hours
before his,deatii."
BERMONDSEY JAMES. —At 4, Bermondsey-wall,
on 23rd July, the daughter of a bookseller, aged 4 years
" cholera (9 hour-)." No medical attendant. Mr.
Mears says, " This child was seen by my assi'tant only
half an hour before death."
In the name sub district, at 4, Bermondsey-wall, on
24th July, the daughter of a sawyer, aged 3 years,
" cholera (20 hours)." The registar adds—" This child
was seized about the time of the death of the above.
There is no supply of water to this and adjoining four
houses; drainage very defective. It will be observed 3
deaths occurred in this house "
In the same sub-district at 10, Marine-street, on July
24, a mariner, aged 27 years, "Asiatic oholera(l3 hours)
after premonitory diarrheas (211 hours)." The registrar
adds—" The wife of this poor man informed me that he
left home in perfect health on Sunday morning last for
Dover in an excursion train, that just before leaving Do•
ver he was taken ill, was purged excessively on his jour-
ney, and came hope in collapse."
In the same sub-district, at 4, Bermondsey- Nall, on 27th
July, a
.sawyer, aged 62 years, " cholera (32 hours)."
The,Registrar ;Ids :—"This man was at work when
seized, I saw him soon after, he was then in collapse."
In the. iiame sub-district, at 3, Perseverance-court,
on 28th July, the wife of a hawker, aged 30 years,
" cholera (24 hours), no premonitory symptoms." The
Registrar adds :—"From minute inquiries instituted it
appears this women had no previous diarrhoea, but was
seized with vomiting, purging, and cramp simulta-
neously."
In the same sub-diStrict, at 8, Toxton-street, on 29th
July, the daughter of a labourer, aged 18 years, " diar-
rhcea (some: days), cholera (13 hours.")
BERMONDSEY—ST. MARY MAGDALEN.—At 13, Ab-
bey-street South, on 25th July, a trotter cleaner, aged
18 years, "Asiatic choiera (16 hours.)"
ST. GEORGE, SOUTHWARK.—BOROUGH-ROAD.—At 24,
Gun-street, on 23d July, the wife of a bookbinder; aged
36 years, "A,i.itic cholera (24 hours)."
ST. MARY, NEWINGToN—ST. PETER, WALWORTH.---
At 7, Berkeley-terrace, on 25th July, the wife of a mer-
cantile clerk, aged 35 years, "Asiaticcholera (14 hours)."
LAMBETH-;—WATERLOO, Ist [r-t.—At 3, Curtis Hatch,
on 29th July, a baptist minister, aged 52 " diar-
rhceea (3 days), Asiatic cholera and collapse (18 hours)."
CAMBERWELL.—At 1, Rose Cottages, Waterloo-street,
on the 23d of July, two daughters of a proctor's clerk,
aged respectively 8 years and 1 year, "cholera Asi tica.
(15 hours and 9 hours)." • The medical attendant makes
the following note :—" There is an open sewer within a
few feet of the front door, and also at the end of the
garden of the above house. In the same sub district, at
Garden Cottage, Harris-street, on the 22nd of July a
carman, aged 49 years, " cholera (16 hours)." Mr.
Flower, on his medical certificate states :—" The sewer
has been recently stirred up and drain pipes laid down,
a large uncovered space being left." There are not less
than four miles of uncovered filthy sewers in the Cam-
berwell and Peckham districts, which ought to be
covered.