The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-16 00:00:00

CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—The official report of this day chews that the
cholera is gaining ground. There are fourteen new cases,
three deaths, and thirty-one cases remaining under treat-
ment. I have said I was convinced all the cases set forth
in the official reports were not Asiatic cholera., I have
now ascertained that my conjecture was well founded.
The medical gentlemen are required by the Board of
Health to report all cases of spasmodic cholera, all eases
resembling cholera, and all suspicious cases. They have
acted in conformity with this request. The consequence
is that in the Newcastle spasmodic list the diarrhwa, com-
mon cholera, and malignant cholera are all included.
The hospital at the north shore, close to Sandgate, has
been opened to-day for the first time for the reception ci
patients. Three were admitted this forenoon. They are
considered mild eases; in all of them re-action ha■ taken
place, or, in other words, they are iu the second stage,
and Dr. Daun is of opinion that they will recover. The
wife and daughter of Tayl, r, the man I mentioned as
employed in Messrs. Doubleday and Eastbury's soap-ma-
nufactory, and dying in seven or eight boors after he was
attacked, have both taken the disease. An old woman,
80 years of age, of the name of Duncan, who has for
many years kept the dead-house here, has been attacked,
and is not expected to survive. She had laid out the bo-
dies t,f two persons who had died of cholera. This, in
addition to the case of the nurse at the Sunderland Infir-
mary, who assisted in removing the dead body of the first
cholera patient there, will probably go far to establish the
fact of the disease being communicable by the effluvia after
death, if it is not contagious during life, which it is now
pretty generally believed to be, at least where there exist
any of the known predisposing causes.
The disease appears to be following the course of the
river Tyne. There have been, or are, two cases at Dent's
Hole, two cases at St. Peter's, and two at Walker. One
of those at Dent's Hole was that of a keelwan, and it oc
curred on Monday. Mr. Frost, the surgeon, was called
in. He found the man with most of the malignant cho-
lera symptoms upon him, with much anxiety, and an im-
pression on his mind that be was on his death-bed. Mr.
F. gave him a quantity of hot water, which afforded great
relief and produced copious vomiting, and applied other re-
medies. He is expected to recover. A girl, twelve
years of age, was the other case at Dent's Hole. She lite-
rally fell down on the floor yesterday morning, had com-
plete prostration from the first, and did not live above
twelve hours. Of the cases at St. Peter's, one is dead and
the other is expected to recover. Mr. M'Allum, the sur-
geon, attended Richardson, a coal tritnmer, one of the
cases at Walker, which occurred yesterday. He had
spasms; his pulse was scarcely perceptible, his skin
cold and clammy, his tongue cold, &c. Mr. M'Allum
gave him water, well saturated with salt, which
produced copious vomiting and gave a great re-
lief. He also took a little blood, and used other remedies
with advantage. This man is expected to recover. A
sailor, of the name of Purvis, was the other case at Walker.
He is quite well again. I have mentioned a little of the
treatment adopted by Mr. Frost and Mr. APAllurn be-
cause it has been attended with beneficial effects, and differs
from the ordinary routine. The commo❑ course is to ad-
minister brandy and laudanum, give large doses of calomel
and opium, and to bleed freely, which I take to be little
better than rank quackery. It is a system, lam satisfied,
which kills more than it cures.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
PHILALETIIES,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Dec. 14, 1831.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-MIS DAY

FROM LLOYD'S.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind N.W.W, and W.—
Sailed his Majesty's ship Revenge, for Lisbon.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 14.—Wind W.S. W. to W., fresh breezes
and squally.—Arrived the Reynard packet, from Carthagena,
sailed 10th October, from Jamaica 37th, and Crooked Island 10th
ult. ; Elizabeth, Edgar, from Pictou ' • and Arundel, Hill, from
Teneriffe. Off port, the Rising Sun, Niscord, from Bay
Chaleur ; and 'Bengal Merchant, Campbell, from London, for
Madras and Bengal, out fourteen days in lat. 45, long. 10.
HOLYHEAD, Dix. 14.—Arrived the Oglethorpe, from
Savannah.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Leda, Lyall, from
Quebec ; and Felicia, Norich, from Trieste. Off port, the
Cumberland, Gardiner, Lora Quebec; Kingston, Dempsey, from
St. Andrew's, N.B. ; and Ivanhoe, from Halifax.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind S W., moderate.—Arrived
the Fairlie, Cromarty, from London, with considerable damage,
loss of mainmast, &c., bound to Bordeaux ; and Despatch, Crabb,
from Liverpool, with damage, bound to Smyrna.
MARGATE, I)ec. 15. Arrived the Andrew Scott, Jordan,
from Virginia; and Malvina, Plasson, and Henry, Jobling, from
Quebec.
DARTMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Martha, Edwards,
from New York, leaky, bound to Amsterdam.
MARGATE ROADS, Dec. 15.—Arrived from Portsmouth
the Marquis of Hastings and Wanderer transports.

The Eliza, Milne, from Liverpool to Bally Shannon, was on
shore on the coast of Donegal, on Monday.
The Friends, Butler, from St. John's, New Bruniwick to
Liverpool, was driven on shore near Wexford, on Tuesday
morning.
The Mary, Mercer, from Newcastle to Bordeaux,was on shore
in the Gironde on the 10th inst. and full of water, having struck
on a rock.
The Bounty Hall, Jackson, from Bengal to Liverpool, put into
Mauritius 30th August for repairs, being leaky.
Arrived at Mauritius, previous to-the Ist of September—the
Lonach, Driscole, from London • Henrietta, Heron, from Havre;
Courier, Mesiquc, from Marseilles ; Navigation, from Nantes;
Lesle, Cachttaux, front Bordeaux ; Bohemian, Maxwell, from
Bengal.
The Princess Elizabeth, from Fahnoutb, arrived at Jamaica on
2f3d of October.
The Lord Blaney, from I.iverpool, bound to Belisle, put into
Milford, in consequence of bad weather.