The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-05 00:00:00

Total ..,

Liverpool •.•
Merthyr Tydvil
Clifton
Cardiff ...
Ports( a.—
Salisbury •••
Newcastle-under-Lyne
Tynemouth
Lanca'ter
Brighton ••
Neath •••
Bradford and North Bierley
Sculcoates •••
Bristol ...
GraveseLd
Maidstone ... •••
St. German's ...
Rochford • •
Dover ... •••
L..ed a ... ••• •••
tlunslet ••• ..•
Hastings •••
Cambridge
Carnarvon •••
Wolverhampton and Seisdon
Bromsgrove
Hull . .
Devizes •••
East Stonehouse
Salford... ••• •••
Nottingham ... ••• •••
B.lton ••• •••
Tavistock ••• •••
Madeley
Sheppey ••• •••
Manchester ... •••
Gainsborough •••
Alderbury (from July 10 to

Aug. 10) ... .. ...
Ashton-under Lyne ... ...
Abicgdon ... ... 4,6. •
Amershem ... ... :..
Alverstoke ... ... ...
Abergavenny ... ••• ...
A tchem (from Aug.l6) ...
Aston ... ... ... ...
Bath ... ... ...
Bedminster ... ... ...
Birmingham ... ... ...
Blackburn ... ...
Chard ... ... ••• •••
Canterbury (from July 9 to
Sept. 3) ... ...
Clitheroe ... ... ...
Cheltenham ... ... ...
Charlton ... ...

Total

Dundee

Total ...
General total:—
Metropolis
Country
Scotland

SCOTLAND.

General total

... 11 0
... 2 0

- 262 26
- 265 53

Note.—The above returns include 243 deaths from
cholera in the metropolis, which are given in the re•
turns of the union officers. The number of attauks
reported by the union officers are—for the metropolis
479, and for the country 611; but their returns do not,
in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by
medical men in private practice.

The continued violence with which cholera manifests
itself in the metropolis will render interesting the follow-
ing extracts of the more remarkable cases included in
the Registrar-General's returns :
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" KENSINGTON; Fulham.

M. 46, labourer; cholera 20 hours, August 31, 16,
Star-lane.—The whole of this neighbourhood is in a most
filthy condition, no drainage, dwellings unhealthy.
Typhus and small-pox are often prevalent here. The
informant states that the water that is used here is so
bad that it is often discoloured, and that the well is in
the immediate vicinity of several cesspools.
" KENSINGTON; St. Paul, Hammersmith.

" F. 65, widow, a nurse; cholera 22 hours, August 28,
22, Chapel-street.—An habitual drunkard; had been in
attendance on a man and wife, who died of cholera a few
days previously, but was intoxicated throughout, so
much ao as to be at last turned out of the house.
" KENSINGTON-TOWN.
"M. 42, plasterer, cholera, 24 hours, August 31, 3,
High•strt-et, Notting-hill.—Healthy. The deceased bad
been drinking hard the previous week; refused to have
medical advice during severe attack of diarrhoea.
"KENSINGTON ; BROMPTON.
"F. 75, widow of labourer, cholera 30 hours, August
29, 9, New-court, New street.—New-court is occupied
by the lower orders, and much crowded. The informant
stated that a privy, common to four of the houses, and
opposite to No. 9, was in an offensive state. The de-
ceated's stated residence was in Little Ebury-street,
Ebury square ; she was removed at an early stage of
the attack to her son's abode in New court.
" CHELSEA. ; NORTH-EAST.
" M. 33, helper in stable, cholera 7 hours, August 24,
7, Charles-mews.—An unpleasant smell, as though from
the drains, pervading the house for some days, but no
defect found which would account for it, although the
house was visited by the officers of the Board of Health.
In clearing the house, or room, after the deaths, some
putrid meat was found in such a state of decomposition
that none of the stablemen would remove it, and is. was
given to some man to take it away.
" ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER-SQUARE.
" M. 35, carpenter, cholera 27 hours, August 30, 8,
Buckingham-place.—This man was at work on a lead
flat, at a house in Regent-street, near Oxford-street, :and
feeling upset from the smell of a cowyard close by, said
he should ask to go into the shop to work ; he, however
went home, was taken ill in the afternoon with cholera,
and died the next day.
" ST. JOHN'S, WESTMINSTER.
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" M. 2, son of a carpenter, cholera 12 hours, August
27, 9, Douglas-street.—The mother stated that this child
had diarrhma for nearly a month, but did-not apply for
relief, considering it to be caused by its teeth; and I may
add that this case is one of the many which have fallen
under my notice when cholera has been induced in
young children by neglecting the premonitory diarrhoea
for a long period before the more urgent symptoms
appear, believing it to be beneficial for the child during
the period of dentition.
" M. 9, son of a plumber, cholera 14 hours, August 29,
5, Emery's Cottages, Douglas-street.—Emery's cottages
are on the north side of Douglas-street. They consist
chiefly of rooms on the ground floor, badly drained and
ventilated. The privies are situated immediately in front
of each, while in those where the two deaths occurred I
found the doors, which were swinging to and fro, closely
approximating the entrance of the dwellings. The odour
was then very offensive, and one of the informants ex-
pressed herself in strong terms, saying she
was frequently obliged to burn rag of a night to
correct the stench. Two other cases have occurred in
this house, who are convalescent, and the occupier com-
plains bitterly of the nuisances arising from the defec-
tive drainage.
" F. 27, wife of labourer, cholera 48 hours, August 23,
1, Gulstou'a Cottages.—These cottages, in which five
deaths have taken place, are not only confined and ill-
cleaneed, but are situated extremely low, being two or
three feet below the paving of the street, by which the
court is entered, and all the informants complain of the
annoyances they receive from occasional large collections
of dung in a yard occupied by a Mr. Harper, upon which
offal, had fish, and vegetables are thrown by the neigh-
bouring costermongers, and allowed to putrefy, while
trom my own knowledge the place has frequently been
the scene of typhus and small-pox.
" ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER; Berwick-street.
"F. 55, wile of gunsmith; cholera, 24 hours, August
26, Rupert-street.-01 very intemperate babite, lived in
what is called a gallery, over workshops and other out-
houses unfavourable to health. One large cesspool in
the yard without drair.age, with two privies for the use
of all the inmates. The landlord assured me that a com-
munication with the sewer in the street should be made
next week.
" ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER; St. James's-square.
"F. 5, daughter of labourer, cholera 24 hours, fever 5
days, 9, Smith's-court, Great Windmill-street.—Bad lo-
cality. I have, by visiting the house, ascertained that
neither in this nor the adjoining one is there any privy
or closet, and that the inmates throw the excrement into
the street.

"F. 4, daughter of labourer, cholera, 6, Angel-court,
King-atreet.—Bad locality. ' The houses in Angel-
murt, end particululy where dscossed's fa ugly liri• u•

♦ery filthy, the rooms small and over•p,opled, and the
walls and floors saturated with dirt and nastiness.'

" SODIEBS TOWN.

"F. 58, widow of pawnbroker, cholera, 7 days, August
21, Johnson-street.—Drainage, &c., good; at the back
part of Johnson-street there is a street called Wcrring-
ton-street, where there are several vaults, which are
♦ery injurious to health, as all manner of filth is con •
gently thrown in them, and putrid fish, &c.; the ground
on which the vaults stand is to let for building, and per-
sons of loose and disorderly habits congregate therein
night and day.
"F. 64, wife of market gardener, cholera, 7 days,
August 30, 23, Melton-street.—Drainage, &c., good; de-
ceased, who was from the country, came up to attend a
sister at the same house, who died of the same disease,
after 3 days' illness, on the 20th of August, and kissed
her sister just before the funeral. She was in perfect
health when she came to London.

"ISLINGTON (East).
"F. 28, wife of labourer, cholera, 24 hours, Aug. 27,
45,. Windsor-street.—Along the back of this street rues
a ditch or drain partially filled up; the privies of some of
the houses are warm from the coppers in the wstshhouses
being set next to them; this draws in the smell, which
is very offensive at times.
" ST. GILES (North).
" Mr. Simpson, the registrar of North St. Giles, reports
upon his district in the following terms:---' The deaths
in his district have increased from 9 last week to 17 this,
ending Saturday, Sept. 1, of which 11 were from cholera
and diarrlices. Although the number of deaths from ell
causes is more than three times the number in the cor-
responding wetk of last year, yet the epidemic in
Church-lane, St. Gilt.s's, is on the decline, and it is quite
certain that it arises from the sanitary efforts which have
been employed in cleansing and whitewashing, and the
feeding of the poor Irish families who inhabit these poor
lodging•houses. In Tower street several fatal cases
of cholera have occurred. The houses are densely
populated and badly ventilated, and the inhabitants
complain bitterly of a sewer, which receives the blood
and offal from a butcher's shop in the street, as also the
refuse from a tripe shop at the corner of Lumber-
court. It is constantly emitting the most poisonous ex-
halations to the whole neighbourhood. At 35, Great
St. Andrew-street, the wife of a fishmonger's porter died
from cholera ; the following day a child two years old
expired, and the nurse who attended on the wile is since
dead. The husband was also attacked with cholera,
and has been removed to the workhouse. The room the
family occupied was always close, with a strong effluvia
of stale fish, arising, no doubt, from the drying of soles
skin. The houses are densely populated, and the lo-
cality is not one of the most healthy, as it adjoins Dud-
ley.street and Seven Dials.'
" CLERKENWELL ; Goswell-street.

"F. 70, widow of a general dealer, cholera 30 hours,
28th of August, 6, Spencer-place.—Her general habits
were cleanly ; but she was lying on a bed the head of
which was against a wall saturated with moisture from
as adjoining privy or water-closet. I was informed that
this had been the case for a long time, and although com-
plaints had been made to the landlord nothing had been
done to remedy the nuisance, the stench from which was
at times intolerable.

" EAST LONDON; St. Botolph's.
" M. 6. son of a charwoman, diarrhea, cholera 17
hours, August 29, 16, Seven-step-alley, Gravel-lane,
Aldgate.—Close, ill cleansed, and unfavourable to health;
a locality in which there have been so many deaths from
cholera within the last month that nothing but a re-
modelling or rebuilding of the houses on this spot can
possibly remove the baneful eflects of disease, to which
the crowded and dirty habits of its inhabitants render
them a prey.
" SHonnniTca; Hackney-road.
" M. 68, hawker, cholera 24 hours, not certified, 14th
of August, 2, Charlotte-court.—A very close, crowded,
and ill-drained court. [A parish case, buried without
being registered. The name and the street being fur-
nished, I, with some difficulty, found the person attend-
ing the deceased, who informed me of the particulars
registered.]
" ST. OLAVE'S; St. Olave and St. Thomas.

F. 38, wile of a hatter, premonitory diaraosa, 3
days, cholera one day, August 23, 9, Webb-street.—
The medical attendant, Mr. Challice, of 4, Alscot-place,
adds on the certificate—' The state of the drainage in
this house is pestilential, and the water is in the same
state.'