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

THE CHOLERA.

-11 s merrn oviiis.--Th ere are stroni;- grounds-IZr
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entitimiug the hope that the pestilence has done its
wo tc., mid that it is passing away from amongst us.
Thonit rarcely a parish in or near London which
has !Wan visited by the disease ; and although the
mor tgiitriosioned by it has fallen very far short of
that ~whi&iat metropolis experienced from the same
: ta
cars a in '11,14, tue ravages it has committed are
fright ful to tsoPlate,
and ought to convey a very
solei in -1 lesson as tunny matters which have hitherto
`
recei vied but littlattention. The establishment of an I
effici as It board or th
renewed energy on the part I
of tho COrmnission*d Sewers, and the strong de-
terinha ation of local \Aids and parochial authorities
Illlalitan 1y to suggest sal ttcommend, but to enforce,
s of cleanliness irittit respective districts, are
ainongi 3 t•tho means
P agitnues i' which
locaelxitpieers experience
r+
cheerseeeimck:
tow Eiove may look with confi-
dence fol vreventing- in siikixe the approach of a
vict-
+i teaec icahl Iyu s
encouraged.finds most
The f IA :t has been
that t h inajorit often stated,W. may be repeated,
triumi,?ned over irt•sof cases in vitix. the cholera has
the :.e tvice of pro victims have bathos° in which
has been
rae42l practitioners
in 0,03 highly-d
-anger or where persom`ave indulged
ous r "
se
ii.. P acne° of ebttaing them-

ST . BOTOLPET, AthCIATI: WITuouT.--37esteh\ty rn,_?r,n-
ing, :Mr. John J. Harris, the registrar of St.liiixo,!pn,
A!d g•-. Ito Without, received informationl of thektulovvr-
ing £ ital cases of Asiatic cholera :
alter I. 33 years, and her infant daughter, Scheer,
died at •6,
Lbor mar East Smithfield, after a brief attack
Hu. N ;arty, aged 35 years, of No.
t'
4, C;lifargut:oecfter
is.tophet•
co:•ti, Rosemary-lane—the deceased was the
labourer employed in the London
ofD ,Nlcko.sw;slfle
Rya r , aged 24 years, a sugar-baker,
stre(!t,, Leman-street ; Jane Regan, aged 53 years,tithke
widoi vof a mechanic—the deceased died, after a illne H 5, at No. 5, Windmill-court, Rosemary-114anert,-
Joh:n Barrett, aged 50 years, a fireman recently e
ploye don board the Royal Adelaide steampacket, Ironlii: gateo vharf, adjoining the Tower of London. Elizabeth
Gordc,,n, aged 23 years, a charwoman, of No. 29,
Roy:al. Mint-street, died suddenly from the same disea.se.
A respectable tradesman, named Edmund Dowling, an
exte. a; sive freeholder and grocer, of No. 30, Icing-street,
Tow •er-hill, expired yesterday morning from an attack .of
ch& era. A young woman died on Sunday from cholera,
at :I S.o. 6, Three King-court, Minories. A tradesman
na, eed Hadlow, of Jury-street, Aldgate, fell a victim to
the epidemic, after a short illness on the same day.
An other male person, named Cross, lately residing at
149, .Minories, died on Saturday from the disease, and

wa a buried on Sunday at the-Victoria-park Cemetery.
Grn at complaints were made yesterday among the poor
resin ling in Peter's-court, Rosemary-lane, relative.to the
defy iency of water, which is dipped from the gutters for
hoi it :ehold use. It appears that the landlord hasneglectod
to f• ornish the houses with proper convenience for the
aop:ply of water, which was formerly supplied by the
Nei v River Company, but for some time past the pre-
mi aas have been without it. A general meeting of the
gu s rdians will be held on Wednesday evening at the
ye' r try-room, Upper East Smithfield.
EAT. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.—No deaths were re-
ported to have taken place yesterday in the Wardeur-
st r eet and Golden-square districts of this parish, where
th e, disease has raged with so much severity. On Sun-
th ►:y no deaths occurred, as far as we have been able to
eoertain ; but it was a melancholy day, on account of
titre number of funerals which took place.

ST. MARTLEBONE.—The number of deaths for the
w•Li )ek was 11. There was an enormous increase of
di,: Lrrhcea over the past week, but the proportion of cho-
le,r a is small.
ST. SAVIOUR'S UNION AND CHRIST CHURCH DISTRICTS.

The mortality from Asiatic cholera in St. Saviour's and
CJ rist Church for the week ending Saturday was as
ei:. cessive as the previous week, but it is to be observed
ti 1 at those weeks have been the heaviest yet experienced.
T lie number of deaths amounted to 81 ; 56 in St. Sa-
y iour's and 25 in Christ Church, the heaviest visitation
t bat parish has experienced.
In theNe w-cut two persons died yesterday morning, also
r mother person in York-street. The disease is not confined
I o any precise locality; and aremarkable instance is staled
t hat in one house in the Blackfriars-road, on the occa-
e ion of the epidemic in 1849, the occupier and his wife
13oth died, and the same fact has taken place on the pre-
sent occasion. There are a ve-y great many cases of
diarrlicea, 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. MARY, NRWINGTON—ST. PETER'S, WALWORTH
DISTRICT.—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
liver° attacked, and no hopes are entertained of their
recovery.
`lns ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—Yesterday two more
deaths from Asiatic cholera occurred in the cholera
'wards of this hospital ; one of the sufferers having only
;been removed but a short time previously from.lslington.
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 magistrate at Marlborough-street police-
c .ourt, Mr. Bingham, yesterday received the following
Kite :
" Dear Sir,—When the first grief and stupor which
m mat have attended the horrible ca/amities in the neigh-
ib of Golden-square shall have moderated, I have
a n doubt that many poor creatures will apply at your
I) ffice for aid to meet the distress caused by funeral ex-
.tiiroess,hhopoNsv. however small, semultalnodn
meet to cess
sioomneofottoosme
cianstebs,erf
3rou will with your usual kindness and humanity oblige
iz.e by doirg so, I enclose a small sum, which I heartily
w ish I had the power of making greater, and if you will
(la) me the favour to acknowledge its receipt in the daily
pa pels as a contribution in aid of the sufferers in the
no ighbonrhood of Golden-square from P.', I shall be very
th; inkful. Dear sir, faithfully, P."
Euc'osure, a 501. Bank of England note.
A cheque for 31. has been received from "M," on be-
ha,lf of the dispensary in Gerard-street, Soho.
GLOUCESTER.—It is with regret that we have to an-
ncounce that Gloucester is now visited by that much
dreaded and pestilential epidemic, Asiatic cholera. As
yet it has net been productive of any very serious con-
que nces—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, hut two of those
previously reported have proved fatal. In Glasgow
within these few days there has been a considerable
di.ninution in the number of cases, although the mor-
tality tables for the month of August show the burials
from cholera to havebeen 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. Theravages of the malady have been
very severe in Campsie and Kirkiatilloch. 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 diarrhoea, 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 Oben there
have been three deaths from the epidemio ; 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 under
treatment. Several fatal cases of severe cdarrhcea, if not
cholera are reported from Montrose, and in Aberdeen
the disease still continues.--Scotsman.

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