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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1831.

CHOLERA INIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES,
SUNDERLAND, DEC. 12, 1831.
Remained at last report
New cases

Total,

Died
Recovered

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, )4,r 2B
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 28, 1831
Cases, 441.—Died,
NEWCASTLE, DEC. 12.
Remained at last report 4
New cases

Total ..

Died
Recovered . .

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A.M 8
Front the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831.
,Cases, 16.—Died, 7.
NORTH SHIELDS, DEC. 12.
Remained at last report
New cases
Died 0

Recovered
Remaining at this date 1
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, .'2.—Died, 1.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.
P. S. Two cases are reported to have occurred at Seghill, about
ten miles, and one at Wideopen, about seven miles, from New•
castle.

We refer to another column for an official com-
munication respecting the cholera, as also some re-
gulations recommended for general adoption by Drs,
RUSSELL and BARRY.

The new Reform Bill has been published, and
appears in another part of this day's Sun. Any
trivial inaccuracies, therefore, that may have acci-
dentally crept into the newspaper reports of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S speech on Monday night, from
which, in our yes.erday's notice, we derived our
materials, may now be corrected by the reader, who
will have the official report before him to set him
right.

Lord ELLENBOROUGII brought forward his mo-
tion last night in the House of Lords, for copies of
a correspondence which had taken place between
the Canton Factory and the East India Company, on
the subject of certain differences which had existed
between the two parties. In justification of his
motion, his Lordship observed that there never was
a moment at which the interests of this country, as
connected with China, were in greater peril than at
1 the present. He trusted, therefore, that Ministers
would not take any decided steps, least of all, any
aggressive ones, until they had fully and impartially
sifted and deliberated on all the circumstances of the
case. his Lordship added a hope that offi-
cial information would not be refused, except
on the strongest grounds. Earl GREY le-
plied that he thought by complying with the
motion, and producing at the present moment, the
information required, he should be acting prejudi-
cially to the public service; when, however, the fitting
season arrived, he would make a point of granting
all the information that could be desired. He
trusted, therefore that, under existing circumstances,
the Noble Lord would not press his motion. The
motion was accordingly withdrawn, after which
their Lordships adjourned till Thursday.

There was no House of Commons last night, not-
withstaOing Mr. PERCIVAL had given notice of a
motion for the appointment of a day of national
fasting and humiliation. Honourable Members
seemed, naturally enough, to think that a national
fast was a matter of supererogation, as there was
quite fasting enough in the country already. Pro-
bably Qr.! the same principle the Ultras objected to
the *ointment of a day of humiliation, as every
day was-one of that character to them. Mr. PER-
CIVAL, therefore, was neither able to propose a fast
nor a humiliation—a sad disappointment—which
we trust will net press too heavily on his devout
and sensitive spirit.

The expedition against Don MIGUEL will carry
with it the warmest wishes for its success, of the
friends of civil and religious liberty throughout the
globe. Whether the force equipped be adequate
to its object, and whether its conduct is likely to be
such as to ensure a triumph, are questions upon
which it may be yet premature to hazard an opi-
nion. But we cannot witness its departure, without
an ardent hope that GOD may prosper an attempt to
upset the most detestable tyranny that has ever
afflicted any country upon the earth's surface.

The KING'S speech alluded concisely to the impos-
sibility of recognizing a person whose recent conduct
towards British subjects has been contrary to inter-
national rights, and of a piece with his former perfidy
and criminality. We are sure that Lord ABERDEEN,
if consulted, would have suggested to his friend,
that the worst possible way to regain the good
opinion of Great Britain, was to pursue the course
of insulting and outraging the persons and property
of British subjects, that has of late been followed
at Lisbon. But at a time when an attempt is actually
making on behalf of the legitimate Sovereign to
restore to her her usurped rights, and when a con-
siderable population in the Azores is de facto under
the sceptre of Donna MARIA, there are the
strongest reasons against renewing with the Usurper
those relations which have hitherto been so properly
suspended.
The Tory party is constantly asserting that MI-
GUEL is the choice of the people, and that the rights
of Legitimacy ought to give way to the popular
will. This is the language of the same party which
maintained a twenty years' war against France for
the restoration of Legitimacy, against the wishes of
the French nation, and which et this hour, is op-
posing, tooth and nail, the universal voice of the
people of England for Reform in Parliament.
When the people are so ignorant and stupid as to be
duped by the Priests, the Tories ety out that the
people's choice ought to be respected, but when they
have sense enough to desire their rights and consti

tutional liberty,l the cry is then—save the country'
from Democracy and Revolution T.
The truth is, as the English friends of the Por-
tuguese monster well know, that the Clergy and
Nobles have so great influence over the lower order,
in Portugal as to induce them to support MIGUEL
but all the _enlightened classes, and especially the
mercantile men and manufacturers in the large
towns, particularly in Oporto,. are eager to be re-
lieved of the tyratrt, and to enjoy the blessings of a
constitutional government. The progress of time
is adding new force to the truth in all countri.-s, and
the Constitutionalists are not likely to abandon tho•c
hopes which are, without doubt, sooner or late!
destined to be fulfilled by the dethronement of tht,
Usurper, and the placing of the Constitutional
Crown on the head of Donna MARIA, its rightful

CHOLERA 11TORBUS.

CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH,
COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL, 13TH DEC. 1831.

Sta,—Agreeably to the intimation given by this Board in the
concluding paragraph of their Circular, dated 14th ult. I have the
honour to transmit the subjoined "Sanitary Instructions for
Communities supposed to be actually attacked by Spasmodi;,
Cholera," with some observations on the stature and treatment of
the disease, drawn up by Drs. Russell and Barry.
Every individual being deeply interested in the preservation
of the public health, it is the bounden duty of all to endeavour
to arrest the spread of disease at its very commencement. In
order to attain this important object—
lst. The most efficient arrangements should be made by the
Local Boards of Health, and other authorities, to obtain the
earliest, and most correct intelligence of every suspicious case
which may occur within their jurisdiction.
2d. All unnecessary communication should be prevented,
as
Car as possible, between the infected and the healthy.
3d. As space, cleanliness, and pure air are of the most vital
consequence, both to the recovery of the sick person and
to the safety of those about him, the patient labouring
under spasmodic cholera should either be placed in a separate
well-ventilated apartment of his own house, if it aftbrd such accom-
modation, and be attended by as few persons as the circumstances
of his case will admit, or be induced to submit to an immediate
removal to such building as may have been provided for the re-
ception of persons whose circumstances will not afford the advan-
tages at home, of space, air, and separation from the healthy.
4th. When an individual shall have been attacked with this
disease, and placed under the most favourable conditions, as already
pointed out, both for the recovery of his own and the safety of tlic
public health ; the room or apartment where he may have been
attacked, and horn which he may have been removed, should
be purified by scrubbing, Lime-washing, free ventilation,- and fn•
migation by heated sulphuric acid and common salt, with black
oxyde of manganese, or the same acid with nitre, or when these
materials cannot be obtained, by strong vinegar thrown srlson
heated bricks.
The bed, bedding, and clothes, should be immersed in water,
washed with soap, and afterwards fumigated as above
sth. To correct all offensive smells, chloride of lime may be
applied; but great caution is recommended in the use of this
material, its fumes continued for any length of time, having
been found highly prejudicial to health, snore particularly in

delicate persons.
6th. A number of steady men, proportionate to the district in
which they are to act, should be appointed to lime-wash and
purify, as ordered above, under the direction of medical autho-
rity, such apartments as may be pointed out by the Inspectors of
the Local Board.
7th. Those who die of this disease should be buried as soon as
possible, wrapped in cotton or linen cloth saturated with pitch,
or coal tar, and be carried to the grave by the fewest possible
number of persons. The funeral service to be performed in the
open air.
Bth. n is of the utmost importance to the public health
that an Improved diet, and flannel clothing, at least flannel
belts and woollen stockings, should be given to the poor.
No person should ever allow himself to sit down and get
cool, with wet feet. The most particular attention should
be paid to keeping the feet dry and warns. Repletion and
indigestion should be guarded against; all raw vegetaldes,
acescent, unwholesome food and drink to be avoided. Tem-
perance should be most rigidly observed ill every thing.
In short, no means should be neglected which may tend to pre,
serve individual health. The neglect of any or all of those eau=
dons would not of themselves produce the specific disease Called
' spasmodic cholera ; but such neglect would most assuredly di,s-
pose the individual living in an infected atmosphere to he at-
tacked by this disease, when most probably he might otherwise
have escaped.
The most effectual means by which this disease may be pre-
vented from extending, is to enable the poor, who arc generally
the first attacked, to oppose to its influence, as far as practicable,
and private charity will, it is hoped, not tail to produce.
those ameliorations in diet, clothing, and lodging which public

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND TREAT.
MENT OF THE DISEASE, DRAWN UP BY DRS.
RUSSELL AND BARRY.
Of tha two great classes of functions performed by the organs
of which man is Composed, one only Is attacked in this disease.
The operations of the senses and of the intelligence are either
left untouched, or are affected but in a secondary manner.
Those functions, on the contrary, by which existence as a liv-
ing is preserved ; those complicated poWers, by means of which
we are for ever appropriating and converting into a part of our-
selves portions of the matter around us ; are all and at once de-
ranged by the attack of this terrible malady. 'Nutrition is anni-
hilated; respiration becomes difficult, irregular, and ineffitcient ;
the involuntary muscles no longer perform their task
the voluntary are drawn into contractions by other powers
than the will ; the blood ceases to circulate; its physical
properties are atered; its serous portion is suddenly throzsm out
upon the intestinal mucus surface of the body the secretions Are
all arrested; the animal heat is no longer produced.
Under such rapidly destructive, and almost universal derange-
ment of function, the most energetic efforts should be directed
to produce what the disease has rendered nature unable to keep
up, vii.-
Ist. Fluidity, heat, and motion in the blood.
2d. Regulated action in the voluntary, and involuntary muscles
Lastly, but above every other consideration, renewed energy in
the nervous centre, the source of all vitality and function.
No remedy at all approaching to the nature of a specific
has been as yet discovered for the disease. In fact, no one
mode of cure can be usefully employed under all the circum-
stances of any disease. The grades of intensity, and the group-
ing of the symptoms with which spasmodic cholera makes its
attacks, vary with the conditions of the subject ;, ii. treatment.
therefore, must vary with those grades and conditions.
The leding preliminary symptoms generally are, either diarr-
lima, spasms, apoplectic vertigo with nausea, imperfect vomiting,
or various combinations of these symptoms.
When the diarrhoea affords time for distinct treatment; it
ought to be arrested at once by the most proinpt and eftiClent
measures ;—by opium in moderate doses ; astringents ; local
bleeding by leeches, if the subject be plethoric ' • by cordials s td
sulphate of quinine, if there be cold sweats ; by confining the
patient strictly to bed, and keeping up heat; by diet ; by emetics.
Should spasms be the first and leading symptom, subnitrate of
bismuth, cupping along the course of the spine, cordial, and anti-
spasmodic medicines, opium, frictions, and dry warmth are in-
dicated.

But when the patient is suddenly seized with vertigo, nausea,
coldness, loss of pulse, blueness of the skin, shrinking of the
features and extremities, with more or less watery discharges
and cramps ; constituting an aggravated case of the worst type
whether this state shall have come on without warning, or shall
have supervened upon either, or both of the preliminary sets of
symptoms already mentioned, time must not be wasted upon
inert measures. Such a patient will inevitably perish, and
within a very few hours, if the paralysed vital functions be not
quickly restored.
Let him then be immediately placed between warm blankets ;
and should no medical person be at hand, let two table-spoons
full of common kitchen salt, dissolved in six ounces of warm
water, be given immediately, and at once, if he be all
adult. Let dry and steady heat be applied along the
course of the spine, and to the pit of the stomach, (if no
other means be at, hand,) by a succession of heated plates
lor platters. Let the upper and lower extremities be surrounded
with bags of heated bran, corn, ashes or sand, and assiduously
rubbed with a warm hand, and a little oil or grease to protect
the skin. Energetic, complete vomiting will probably be pro-
duced by the salt ; and perhaps bilious purging, with tenesmus.
Should a medical man be on the spot, a moderate bleeding, if
it can be obtained, would be desirable, previously to, or imme-
diately after the administration of the salt, or of any other
emetic which may be preferred.
The extensively deranged action of those organs, whose
nerves are, chiefly derived from, or connected with the
spinal marrow ; the anatomical characters found about that
great source of vitality, after death, in many cases of
this disease; together with the success stated by Dr. Lange,
chief physician at Cronstadt, to have attended the prac-
tice mentioned below, founded upon these views, in twe;ve out
of fourteen aggravated cases, fully justify the following re-
commendation
.4 In cases such as those just described, let the cautery be
freely applied to one or two, or more places on either side
of the spine, as if for the purpose of forming good sized issues.
Should the heated iron have produced any excitement of the
nervous power, and the salt-emetic have caused any portion of
the bile to flow through its proper duct, a great step will have
been accomplished towards recovery from the stage of collapse.
Cordials and opiates judiciously administered ; sinapisms and
other external stimulants, mercurials, with mild aromatic ape-
rients, which the intelligence and activity of British medical
practitioners will not fail to adapt to the actual circumstances of
each case, will conduct the patient safely to the stage of re-
action.
The organs during the collapse of this disease, probably owing
to deficient vitality, often gives no indication of having been
acted upon by repeated doses of certain powerful medicines,
which under other circumstances would have produced the most
pronounced effects. It is, therefore, suggested that this tempo-
rary insensibility of the system could not inculcate the adminis-
tration of such repeated quantities as could, by accumulation,
when the organs begin to recover their vitality, give rise to un-
favourable results.
Thirst being a most distressing symptom of this disease, the
quality and temperature of the drink should perhaps be lett to
the choice of the patient; but the quantity taken at a time
should not exceed tour ounces, and should be acidulated with
nitrous acid, if the patient will bear it.
Should the disease prove extensively, and rapidly epidemic in
a large community, it would be prudent to establish stations at
convenient distances from each other, where medical assistance
and medicines might be procured without the risk of disappoint-
ment or delay. The details of these arrangements are left to the
wisdom of Local Boards of Health.
As the symptoms of the consecutive stage of feverish re-action
in cholera differ but little, if at all, from those of ordinary typhus,
except perhaps in the greater rapidity with which they but too
often run to a fatal termination ; and as this kind of fever is
treated in no part of the world with more success than in Eng .
land, the entire management of this stage of the disease is left to
the zeal and science of the profession at large.
Attentive nursing, and assiduous, well-directed rubbing, are of
the utmost importance ; a strictly horizontal position, howoer,
must be maintained until the heart shall have, partly at least, re-
covered itaaction. An erect or even semi-erect position, dun_pg the
collapse, has been often observed to produce instant death . Warm
.baths therefore, for this and other reasons, are worse than useless :
evaporating fluids,and indeed'alliroisture applied to the skin,seem
to be contradicted for obvious reasons. Hot air baths, so con-
trived as to be applicable in a recumbent posture, and admitting
access to the patient for the purpose of friction, may be of use.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
E. STEWART, Chairman.

Bets, it is said, are in favour of Mr. Jortz,r
WILSON CROKER that be will deliver more yards of speech
than even Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, on the Reform Bill,
enriched also with an incomparable brogue.

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