The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

(From the General Board of Health, 0ct.15.)
STOCKHOLM.—The following is a summary of the cases
of cholera, &c., which have occurred in Stockholm up
to Oct. 4 (the 52d day of the epidemic in that city) :

Premonitory Symptoms.
ITnderitlrletabitTienngttfhraotm
petrnieodprecedif.).g day... 63978
Taken 71
Recovered - •••

Passed into real cholera
Still under treatment, both classes ••• 809
From the Commencement of the Epidemic.
Taken ill •• 5500
Recovered • •• • •• • 4400
Passed into real cholera ... 440
Cholera.
Remaining from the preceding day 205
Taken ill during that period 22
Passed from. diarrhoea •••
••• 2
•••
Recovered. 23
Dead ... ... 17
From the Commencement of the Epidemic.
Taken ill ... 4263
Recovered ... ... • ... ... 1522
Dead ... ... 2552
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Oct. 14.—Cholera, 4 ; diar-
rhcea, 1. The total number of deaths from cholera and
diarrhcea in Newcastle during the present outbreak has
been 1,493. In the same period (viz., the first 44 days)
during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in 1831-2,
the number of deaths was 285. The total number of
new cases of diarrhcea, discovered by the various visitors
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the 13th instant, since the
preceding day, was 85, and one case approaching cholera.
The number of deaths the same day was, cholera, 6 ;
diarrhcea, 1. The total number of new cases discove'red
by the visitors during the house-to•house system of visi-
tation, from the commencement of the present epidemic
in Newcastle, has been, diarrhcea, 4,169 ; approaching
cholera, 249 ; and cholera, 63 ; making the grand total
discovered under this system, 4,484.
DIINSE, N. 8., Oct. 13.—Cholera, 1 death.
MORPETH (BEDLINOTON DISTRICT), Oct. 14.—Cholera,
2 deaths.

GATESHEAD UNION Oct. 14.—Cholera, 18 deaths.
GATESHEAD, Oct. 14.—Cholera, 1 death.
GATESHEAD (HAWORTH DISTRICT), Oct. 14.—Cholera,
2 deaths.
WARKWORTH. - Five fatal cases of cholera have
occurred here ; there have been seven or eight attacks,
and great numbers of persons are labouring under pre-
monitory diarrhoea. Additional medical assistance has
been obtained from Newcastle.
BEDLINGTON.-Dr. Gavin, after a careful inspection
of this place, is declared to have expressed a decided
opinion that the local authorities might remove most of
the nuisances from which the town chiefly suffers, by
instituting arrangements for the removal, at the public
expense, daily, or thrice weekly, of all the house refuse
of the inhabitants.
METROPOLIS.—Mr. Hall, of the Poor-law Board, and,
Dr. Milroy, from the General Board of Health, had in-
terviews on Friday with the board of guardians or
Whitechapel and St. George's-in-the-East. In both in-
stances the board of guardians, recognising the necessity
of a thorough and systematic correction and abatement
of whatever may be injurious to health, and likely to
engender disease, as far as their powers under the exist-
ing Order in Council enable them to do, resolved to ap-
point their medical officers to act as sanitary inspectors
of their different districts.
It is much to be desired that not only all the metro-
politan parishes, but that every parish throughout the
kingdom should act upon the same plan, viz., that of
throwing the responsibility of a complete sanitary
inspection, and of a vigilant supervision of the pub-
lic health of the respective districts, on the already exist-
ing staff of parochial officers. A death from cholera
occurred on the 12th in Charlotte-court, Whitechapel ;
the patient, seven years of age, was collapse when first
seen by the attendant, and survived only five boars.
Another case occurred on the morning of the 14th in
another part of the parish. Within the last two or
three weeks there has been an increase of bowel com-
plaints io one of the medical districts of Whitechapel,
and also in parts of St. George's-in-the-East.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN ITALY.—The Giornale cli 1
Roma of the 4th announces that the electric telegraph,
which already extends from Rome to Bologna and
Modena, is to be continued to Terracina, there to meet
the Neapolitan wires ; so that Naples, Rome, Bologna,
and Modena will form but one uninterrupted line.
SILK DUTY.—The duty on silk last year amounted to
222,936/. This was one of the duties brought before
the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Manchester.
SPIRIT DUTIES.—It is shown by a recently printed
Parliamentary paper, that in the year ended the 6th
January last the duty on spirits was as follows :—On
foreign, 1,477,9061. ; and on British, 6,226,7361. On
rum, 1,103,5841.