The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

DIRECTIONS AND REGULATIONS OF THE
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

I. All surveyors, district or assistant surveyors of high-
ways, trus tees, county surveyors, and others by law en-
trusted wi th the care and management of streets and pub-
lic ways arid places, and where there are no public authori-
ties so entrusted, the owners and occupiers of houses and
tenements adjoining theroto, to take the measures neces-
sary for the frequent and effectual cleansing thereof.
IL The owners and occupiers and persons having the
care and ix xler:ng of all houses, dwellings, churches, build-
ings, and places of assembly, to cleanse, purify, ventilate,
and disinfe, it the same.

111. All local authorities and persons whatsoever to
exert all the, powers vested in them by law for the removal
of nuisances.

IV. All relations of, or others in charge of the bodies of,
persons who have died of cholera or other epidemic disease,
to obey the directions of the medical officers of the guar-
dians, as to the speedy interment of the dead.
In these directions and regulations, the word "Guar-
dians" means the guardians, directors, wardens, governors,
parochial board, or other like officers having the manage-
ment of the poor of any union, parish, combination, or
place, where the matter requiring the cognisance of any
such officers arises, and the expression " Local Authority"
means the town council, local board of health, or any
trustees or commissioners for the draining, paving, light-
ing, cleansing, managing, or directing. the police of any
town, borough, or place, highway board, or any other
body of a like nature, or any commissioners of sewers, or
any body, cmcepting boards of guardians and overseers,
having by law powers for the removal of nuisances.
Given under my hand and under the seal of the General
Board of Health, this fourteenth day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
(Signed) B. HALL.

ST. DITNEVAN'S, STErNEY.—Yesterday forenoon Mr.
William Baker, the coroner, held an inquest at the
Crown and Aarohor, Store r- s tree t, St. Dunstan's, Step-
ney, on view the body of Janet Dean, aged 72 years,
who died very soddenly from choleraic diarrhcea, at No.
1, Great Turner-street, Commercial-road, East. It
appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the
wife of a commercial clerk, and generally enjoyed a
good state of health ; but on Tuesday morning last she
was seized with diarrhcea and sickness. Deceased had
suffered very severely from neglected diarrhcea, which
produced prostration and general exhaustion. Verdict,
" natural death from choleraic diarrhcea." There have
been no fewer than twenty-five deaths in the union,
which includes Mile End Old Town ; St. Paul's, Shad-
well ; St. John's, Wapping ; the hamlet of Ratcliff,
and St. A nne's, Limehouse, during the last three days.
A seaman was removed from a barge yesterday, which
was lying in the eastern basin of the Regent's Canal
Dock, Rai:cliff. Ho was suffering from a severe attack
of the disc ase, and after being seen by Mr. Cleland, one
of the me, iical officers of the union, he was conveyed to
the cholera. ward of the London Hospital, where he ex-
pired last evening.
THE Pi? XCINCT AND LIBERTY Or THE Towers.—Late
on Thursday evening, Mr. Baker, the coroner for the
liberty of the Tower, held a long► inquiry at the Old
George Tavern, Trinity-square, Tower-hill, on view of
the body oda respectable man, unknown, who died sud-
denly from, a severe attack of Asiatic cholera, while sit-
ting on a form on Tower-hill. In the deceased's bat
were some bread and meat. On one piece of paper was
written the following :—" William Keates will thank
any person who may think him worthy of their employ-
ment. I am one of the unfortunate, and am afflicted
with deficient speech. lam not particular what it may
be, so that. I can occupy my time with credit to myself
and to the benefit of my employer. I have a little sup-
port from the interest of 31101. in the Three-and-a-Half
per Cent. Stock. I can give respectable references as to
character in London and Bath." Other evidence having
been addriced, the jury returned a verdict of "Died of
Asiatic cholera." Another death took place in the
Tower fro in cholera on Thursday, after a brief attack,
and the epidemic is far from subsiding. The rate-
payers are, about to hold a general meeting in the
liberty of the Tower and its precincts, for the purpose
of making: additional arrangements for the medical re-
lief of the poor of the Tower district.
ST. GE, )RGE-IN-THE- EAST.—Yestenlay afternoon, at
three o'clock, Mr.. B. Baker, the coroner, held an in-
quest at the Ship Tavern, Chapel-street, Back-road, St.
George-in-the-East, respecting the death of Joseph Brad-
ford, aged 11 years, who died from the effects of foul
drainage. The jury returned the following verdict :
" That the deceased died from malignant fever, occa-
sioned by certain nuisances on the premises where
the deceased had been residing, and the coroner is
earnestly re quested to write to the board of guardians
and the land lord of the premises, relative to the nuis-
ances complained of, for the purpose of having the house
placed in a proper condition. '
ST. MATTHEW, BETHNAL GEE EN.—Last evening an-
other inquest was taken by Mr. W. Baker the Butler's
Head, Butler-street, Bethnal-green, lon t►he body of Mar-
garet Sophia Gilderstiye, aged 49 years, the wife of a
weaver, carrying on business as a herbalist and agent to
Dr. Coffin, at No. 6, Gretton-terrace, Green-street, where
the deceased died from an attack ofAsiatic cholera caused
by the effect of quack medicine administered by the hus-
band. The evidence proved that the deceased had been
in good health until Monday last, when she was seized
with violent purging and vomiting. Mr. Stephens, the
agent of Dr. Coffin, visited the deceased, but did not
administer any of the nostrums. The usual cholera pow-
der was given to her, but she gradually grew worse and
died on the same day. The jury, after a long and de-
sultory conversation, returned a verdict :—" That the
deceased died from the effects of Asiatic cholera, and
that the husband was guilty of great misconduct in not
calling in a proper medical practitioner previous to the
deceased's death." Mr. Moore stated, in answer to the
coroner, that there were a great number of cases of cho-
lera in the district of Bethnal-green, but the epidemic
was not on the increase. _

THE WEST LONDON llNlON.—Yesterday morning, in
consequence of the increase of the epidemic among the
poor in the West London Union, the board of guardians
issued a notice among the inhabitants :—" Medicines are
kept at the houses of the medical officers of the union
for the gratuitous relief of the afflicted poor who may
be seized with diarrhcea or any of the symptoms of the
epidemic. The various dispensaries in the union are
also open day and night, where assistance will be ren-
dered without an order from the relieving officers or
guardians." Several cases of Asiatic cholera were re-
ported yesterday, but the disease is not on the increase at
present. The pauper inmates at the workhouse, West-
street, Smithfield, are generally in a healthy condition.
ST. LUKE'S, MIDDLESEX.—At an inquest held yester-
day afternoon, at the Crown public-house, Whitecross-
street, St. Luke's, the registrar of the district stated, in
answer to Mr. Baker, the coroner, that there were very
few fatal cases of Asiatic cholera in that densely popu-
lated parish, and in the crowded parts the poor were
somewhat free from the disease, although many were
suffering from diarrhoea. There had only been three
deaths in the vicinity of Whitecross-street during the
present week.