The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

Cholera._.

Cholera.

METROPOLIS.
The returns from the D, E, H, K, and T divisions of
the Metropolitan Police, give 18 new cases and seven
deaths.

With reference to a death that took place at 16, Red-
cross-court, Borough, the returns state that this is the
ninth fatal case in this court, in which there are 13
houses, occupied by 80 to 90 persons, fir the use of
whom there are only two filthy privies, the stench from
which is very bad, more particularly to persons living
opposite to them ; the drain is also very offensive. At
the rear of the houses in the same court are eight or
nine houses, inhabited by 70 or 80 individuals, who have
only two filthy privies • the boards are covered with
soil, the smell from which is insufferable. The drain
also smells very offensive, and in wet weather the inha-
bitants are ankle deep in water in their houses. For
the use of 20 houses in Redcross-square, there is an iron
tank 4 feet high, which is never more than half filled
with water, the tap is about 12 inches from the bottom
where there is a quantity of stagnant'filth, the tank not
having been cleaned out for the last six months. There
are two filthy privies in the square for the use of not
less than 80 individuals. The drain and tank emit very
unwholesome smells.
In the house No. 10, Hargreaves-square, where a
death occurred on the Bth instant, the inhabitants com-
plain of very offensive smells arising from the grating
over the common sewer.

A woman was found lying ill of cholera in a common
lodging-house, in Holloway-court, Whitechapel ; she
was immediately removed to the workhouse, where she
died.

Two new cases and one death are reported as having
occurred in the Millbank Prison, from the sth to the
9th instant.

Mr. Spaull, the medical parochial officer of the dis-
trict of Hammersmith, in the Kensington Union, gives
the following account of six fatal cases of cholera which
have occurred in this district. He was called to the
first case at No. 2, Brook-green-place ; the patient, a
deformed woman, a vendor of fruit, was attacked with
the disease in its most virulent form, and died in. 22
hours, having had neglected diarrhoea of some standing.
The second case was that of a girl, aged 20, who bad
been dancing almost all night at a public-house, and
afterwards attended the wake on the body of the woman
who first died. She was attacked at six in the morning
and died at three in the afternoon. The mother of the
girl was attacked two days afterwards, and died in eight
hours, she having got drunk at her own daughter's
funeral. Two brothers in the same place were attacked
within a day of each other, and both perished. The
sixth case was that of a child who was attacked with
diarrhoea, which quickly passed into cholera, and proved
fatal in 13 hours.

Brook-green-place, where these de'ths occurred, is a
densely-crowded locality, inhabited by Irish, and has
very imperfect drainage- -is ill-ventilated, and badly
supplied with water, which is sometimes almost black,
and of a bad smell—it is obtained from a pump common
to most of the houses ; at present it is clear and free
from odour. The surface of the place was muddy and
filthy, from ashes, soil, vegetable matter, &c., being
thrown from the houses. This nuisance was certified to
by the medical officer. Eventually the soil has been
carted away, and the houses lime•washed, so that at
present they present quite a different aspect.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, Nov. 11.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Alacrity, from Cronstadt ;
Fifteen, do. ; Hoffnung, do. ; Captain, do. ; Kelloe, do. ;
Lady Napier, do. ; Lucinde, do. ; Elizabeth, do. ;
Friendschaft, Rostock; Ohlia, Hudickswall ; Fury, Memel;
Copernicus, do. ; Eliza and Jane, do. ; Robert Burrell,
, do. • Branch, do. ; Othello, Stettin ; Rose, do. ; Frede-
ricka, Dantzic ; Laurina Maria, do. ; Syra,do. ; Commo-
dore, do. ; Savannah, do. ; Rose, do. •, Sisters, do. • Nau-
tilus, Stockholm ; Alexander, do. ; Resolution, Aalborg ;
A. Kyerstone, Nestoed, Pauline, Delphine, Riga ; Aurora,
do. ; Corunna, do. ; Elise, St. Petersburgh ; Mary, Svend-
borg, Brodrene, Frederickshald ; Johanne, Eisserup
Elizabeth, Gothenburg ; Elizabeth, Ostend; Panama,
Havannah ; Swallow, Gothenburg.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Is'abella, for
Port Beaufort; Countess of Severn and Melville, Mar-
seilles ; Neptune, Hobart Town • Thalestres, Port Philip,
Cape of Good Hope, and Madras; Phcenaah, Sydney ;
Undine, Launceston.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Abbeylands,
for Sydney; Catherine Jameson, do. ; Templar, do.
Fredericke and Dora, Hamburgh ; Candidate, Barbadoes;
York Town, New York; Caroline, Jamaica.