The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-07 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

NEWCASTLE-lIPON-TYNE.
Deaths on the sth of October :
Cholera
10
Diarrhoea 1
The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhol
in Newcastle during the present outbreak has beef'
1,438. In the same period (viz., the first 35 dar)
during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there la
1831-2 the number of deaths was 255.

GATESHEAD.
Died on the sth of October :
Cholera
The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrlg';
in Gateshead to the present date has been 387. Put
,mil 4
the like period (viz., the first 29 days) in 1831-2, w"
deaths amounted to 141.
Shopkeepers often grumble at paying rates for el:
improvement of the health of a town ; but there is 10
a shopkeeper in Newcastle, looking no farther than l'ote
till, but would have paid three times the amount ofr3,
he has been accustomed to pay, if cholera could bnei
been kept out of the town ; as the following fact .o.rj
show :—During five days that the cholera was ragingl,
that town, the proprietor of a leviathan drapery 0"-
blishment was 8001. short of his ordinary receiP:i
There is not a shopkeeper in the town but has suffe
in the same proportion. The same is told of the tow'
of Hexham.
THE FAIRS.--The Mayor of Sunderland has
notice that in consequence of. the prevalence of cho,ke
iev
►
in the district, the fair in that town is postponed. P"
authorities have also prohibited the holding of Hought°"„
.
le-Spring feast.

THE BREWERS.—Since the outbreak of the cholera .0
Newcastle there has been an almost entire eessationoi
the consumption of malt liquors. During the past t
or three days, housewives have been unable to procure
yeast to bake their bread with.

LONDON.
A fatal case occurred in the York-road, Waterloo-r°t
on the 3d instant ; one also at the bottom of Stang°
street, Westminster. Since the beginning of the pros ;
week several deaths have taken place in the low filt
courts and streets in the borough ; and there has been
large increase of bowel complaints in several districOto
The local authorities of St. George the Martyr evinA
much zeal in using the power in their hands to abate f'o
removable nuisances, and in improving the condition
their parish. They have appointed their medical offifcet",r
to act as sanitary inspectors of their respective distre.re
and are prepared to increase the staff at once whene'oo
it may appear advisable. Unfortunately their exert'
°n
most seriously impeded by causes over which Oei
w
have little or no control. The monster nuisance is
horrible condition of the principal sewers.
area
The sewer in Friar-street, six feet high and --I d
wide, is no better than a huge lengthened cesslP°oo
the vilest description, choked with black mud, Kb
effluvia from which pollute the atmosphere all rnuibe
Already many persons have lost their lives fret!' of
poisonous air with which this receptacle is continuing
charged. The stench is frequently so overpoveLed
that even the inmates of the Bench Prison are
to keep their windows shut. The evil is not a little '0(
creased by the noxious exhalations from the yarLl6,lg
bone boilers, wholesale butchers, and other ti tin,' 0
e
trades carried on in the midst of a crowded populatl°
Thewithoutg
regulationreat
deficiency
or
est
of restraint.
water supply in the
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Borough, while it is a serious privation to many of
the
rr
poorer classes, adds to the difficulty of cleansing ,
streets and yards, and to the removal of nuisance t
Several of the crowded courts have only a single OP
the use of all the inhabitants, who are thus noes J
tated when the water is laid on to collect their stintel,
supply in an old bucket, fishkettle, or basin, for the li'
of their families. Even the public urinals which oere
fot
put up some years ago have never yet had water laid on •
cleansing them ; the result is that they have become
positive nuisance to passers by.