The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-20 00:00:00

METROPOLIS.

Mr. Hall, of the Poor-law Board, and Dr. Milroy, from
the General Board of Health, had interviews on Tuesday
with the boards of guardians of Kensington and Fulham.
Upon the advice of these gentlemen, the guardians, in
both instances, devolved the veryresponsible duties of sani-
tary inspection in the different districts of their parishes
upon their medical officers, who are required, at the
same time, to maintain a vigilant survellance over the
health of the inhabitants in all the suspected localities.
At both meetings, but more especially at Fulham, loud
complaint was made of the disgraceful state of long-open
ditches, as left by the Commissioners of Sewers, and in-
deed of the utterly defective sewerage throughout the
district. A case of cholera has occurred within the last
few days in Kensington, in the very same room where
the first fatal case occurred in 1849. There have also
been two fatal cases in St. George's-in-the-East. From
reports of the superintendents of the D, K, L, M, R, S,
and V divisions of police, forwarded this day to the
General Board of Health, by direction of the Commis-
sioners of Metropolitan Police, it appears that between
1 the 15th inst. and the 18th there have been 27 cases of
cholera, resulting in 13 deaths. In six cases death en-
sued within 24 hours of the attack. In one instance,
it is remarked by the superintendent, that "the smell
from the premises in Green-street was so bad all last
week that it was impossible to have the windows of this
house (where the death occurred) open for ordinary ven-
tilation." The patient was in perfect health up to the
time of the attack.

GERMAN EMIGRANTS' LODGING-HOUSE, GLASS-HOUSE-
YARD, ST. MARY'S, WHITECHAPEL.
During the last few days several cases of cholera have
occurred at this depot for the Germans emigrating from
Germany to America ; three have been removed to the
German Hospital, three to St. Thomas's, and one to
the London Hospital. The disease appears to have
been brought over from Holland by the emigrants, as
in some of the patients it appeared even on board the
Rotterdam steam-boat, and in others shortly after their
landing at St. Katharine's-wharf in Lower East Smith-
field. The medical officer attending the sick in this
lodging-house states that he considers the accommoda-

tion supplied in the establishment during the short stay
of the emigrants in London as faultless ; that constant
attention is paid to cleanliness in every respect ; and that
any suggestion that can promote the comfort and health
of the emigrants is immediately carried out, regardless
of expense, by the proprietor.

THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ON CHOLERA
The following has just been published by this im-
portant body :

" Royal College of Physicians, Oct. 15.
"The Cholera Committee of the Royal College of
Physicians have received from various quarters appli-
cations for some plain directions calculated to be of
service to the public during the prevalence of epidemic
cholera, when medical advice may not be immediately
at hand, and before such advice can possibly be ob-
tained.

" For this reason the committee deem it right to offer
to the public some instructions, which, on account of
an intended 'notification' have been issued by the
General Board of Health on the 20th of September,
1853, may be brief, and are in no case intended either
to supersede the necessity of having recourse as speedily
as possible to further medical assistance, or to impose
any authoritative restriction on medical practitioners.
"DURING THE PREVALENCE OF CHOLERA,
" 1. No degree of looseness of the bowels should be
neglected for a single hour. Medical advice should be
once sought when the looseness begins ; and, previous
to the arrival of a medical attendant, some of the medi-
cines at other times used for checking diarrhoea should
be taken—for example, the chalk mixture ; the com-
pound cinnamon powder ; or the compound chalk
powder with opium, in does of from 20 to 40 grains for
an adult.
" 2. No saline aperients or drastic purgatives should
be taken without the advice of a medical man.
" 3. Intemperance in eating or drinking is highly
dangerous ; but the moderate use of vegetable as well as
animal food may be recommended ; and, in general,
such a plan of diet as each individual has found by
experience to be most conducive to his health ; for any
considerable change in the diet to which a person has
been accustomed is seldom advisable during the preva-
lence of an epidemic.
"4. Debility, exhaustion, and exposure to damp
render the poor especially subject to the violence of the
disease. The committee urge upon the rich the neces-
sity of supplying those in need with food, fuel, and
clothing.
" 5. The extreme importance of removing or counter-
actings.
all impurities, whether in the air, water, or
of the
soil,
as as by ventilation, cleanliness, and the free use
be
too
chloride of lime or chloride of zinc, cannot
strongly insisted upon.
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" Lastly, since the reports made too ertwhe—
Physicians show that of the persons who °
about the sick in the last epidemic theh
in proportion,
was, umber of those
who were attacked by the diseaseemay
be practi-
exceedingly small, the fear of infection
cally disregarded.
" The committee forbear
medical
dwell upon the extreme
importance of providinggf
the diarrhoea among the poor ;
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is called thesystem ai attendants dispen-
sariesLvree for the treatment
of organising in every district
visitation ; and of
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properly treatedat their establishing
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General Board of Health,,

PRATEEs AGAINST THE CHOLERA.---YeSterday was
kept at Southampton, at the request of the Mayor of
that town, as a day of humiliation and prayer, that Al-
mighty God may be mercifully pleased to remove from
this nation the awful scourge of cholera wh parts of the kingdom have been visited. All with
thehic churches
and chapels were opened for Divine worship, the shops
were closed, and business suspended.
"As GOOD AS A PLAT."--I note this very ordinary
phrase as having royal origin, or at least authority. It
was a remark of Charles 11. when he revived a practice
of his
House o predecessors,r and attended the sittings of the
Lords. The particular occasion was the de-
bate, then interesting to him, on Lord Roos's Divorce
Bill.—Note.: and Queries.

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THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA ASSOCIATION'.

I The East India and China Akedpiiiichi . , •:hed
their usual comparative stateniez*.or r... of
ships, both British and frifts4ir,, *if* theft', 4 ate
tonnage, entered inwarltel_.elbugtet..;44Sli- th
cargo, from and to places ltin4fie ;..efs.thii; :•1 t
India Company's charteV:onPhis,
the 30th of September, in e mt,5335.rga18.48:, e
return of the vessels entere ipitolviktfira —ase
with regard to the port of Longhorn oTVg4isesel( and
49,000 tonnage, the difference between '5BO v€9,316e1s with
315,885 tonnage in 1853, and 525 vessels with 266,885
tonnage in 1852. Liverpool figures for an increase of 67
vessels and 54,123 tonnage, the arrivals in 1853 having
been 203 vessels with 121,975 tonnage, against 136 vessels
with 67,851 tonnage in 1852. Bristol and Hull present
an increase of 8 vessels and 1,862 tonnage, the difference
between 27 vessels with 9,403 tonnage and 19 vessels
with 7,541 tonnage. The return for the Clyde fur-
nishes the only instance of decrease, viz., to the extent
of 3 vessels and 1,217 tonnage, the arrivals in 1852
having been 40 vessels with 15,050 tonnage, while in
1853 they were 37 vessels with 13,833 tonnage. The net
increase established in contrasting these returns is 127
vessels and 103,769 tonnage, the difference between 847
vessels with 461,096 tonnage in 1853 and 720 vessels
with 357,327 tonnage in 1852. The principal arrivals
were from Bombay, New South Wales, Madras, Singa-
pore, Penang, and Mauritius.
The return of clearances outwards shows' n the case of
the port of London the large increase of 245 vessels and
96,812 tonnage, the difference between 723 vessels with
360,215 tonnage and 478 vessels with 263,403 tonnage.
Liverpool figures for an increase of 114 vessels and
39,135 tonnage, the departures in 1853 having been 397
vessels with 213,789 tonnage, and in 1852 283 vessels
with 174,564 tonnage. Bristol and Hull show an in-
crease of 14 vessels with 3,759 tonnage, these repre-
senting the whole of the departures in 1853, while
not a single vessel left the same ports in the cor-
responding period of the previous year. The return for
the Clyde exhibits an increase of 79 vessels and 10,985
tonnage, the difference between 141 vessels with 41,413
tonnage and 62 vessels with 30,428 tonnage. The net
increase established is therefore 452 vessels and 150,691
tonnage, the aggregate
,departures in 1853 having been
1,275 vessels with 619416 tonnage, against 823 vessels
with 468,485 tonnage in 1852. Nearly the whole of
this increased traffic has arisen from the extension of
trade with the Australian colonies, the departures un-
der the head of New South Wales, New Zealand, &c.,
alone being 444 vessels with 145,686 tonnage.