The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.
RETURN OF CASES, SEPT, 12.
THE METROPOLIS.
SIIYERINTENDING REGISTRARS DISTRICT.
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WEST DISTRICTS.

Ilemington
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St. George, Hanover-square ...
Westminster ...
St. Martin in the-Fields
St. James, Westminster ... -
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Hampstead
St, Pancras
Islington
Hackney

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St. Giles
Strand .. •
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Clerkenwell
St. Luke .
East London
West London
City of London

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Shoreditch
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Whiteehapel ... ...
St. George-in-the• East
Stepney ... ...
Poplar ... ... ...

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St. Saviour, Southwark
St. Olave ... ...
Bermondsey ... •••
St. George, Southwark
Newington, Surrey ...
Lambeth
Wandsworth
Camberwell
Rotherhithe
Greenwich
Lewisham

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THE COUNTRY.
Attacks.
Liverpool —•—• -
Merthyr Tydvil
Clifton • •
Cardiff
Carmarthen ...
Portsea ••• •••
Salisbury •••
Warrington ••
Newcastle-under-Lyne
Tynemouth •••
Lancaster •••
Brighton ••• •
Nea,th
West Ham —•
Bradford and North Bierley
Sculcoates •••
Bristol ". Gravesend and Milton
Maidstone
St. Germans ... •••
Bochford
Boston... ***
Prescot
Derby •••
Leeds ••• •••
Pfunalet
Beatings •••
Wolverhampton and Siesdon
Bridgwater ••• *—
Barnstaple •••
East Stonehouse
Ralifax ..•
South Shields ...lull •••
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Salford... •••
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Penkridge
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Burnley
Pontypool •••
Bury
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Preston •„.
Madeley
Virolstanton
Manchester ...
Gainaborough •••
Ashton-under.Lyne
Abingdon
Alverstoke •••
Atherstone •••
Great Broughton (Cheater) ...
Birmingham -
Bedminster
Billericay
Bedale •••
Basford
Barnard Castle
Battle .••
Berwick upon-Tweed...
Barnet ... •••
Bosmere and Claydon
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Coventry
Chorlton
Crickhowell ..• •••
Cheltenham ••• —•
Clitheroe ••• —*
Croydon and Mitcham
Chippenham ••• *"
Colch(.ster •••
Cockermouth ••• •••
Dudley
Darl,ngton •••
Dorkin •• •••
Dorchester and• Cerne
Droitwich ••• •••
Driffield
Eccleshall
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Falmouth ••• •
Fareham ••• •
Goole •••
Gateshead
Glanford Brigg
Gloucester
Beadington ..•
Fluddersfield
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Ilexham
Ipswich
Ramsgate •••
Margate
lieynsham
Liakeard
Llandillo Fawr
Lampeter •••
Llanelly
Mailing .(Kent
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Melton

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SCOTLAND.

Dundee
Perth ...
Ilawick
Rerriemuir
Arbroath ---
Auchmithe (Arbroath)
Rilrenny ••• "'
Aberdeen ... ••`
Dunfermline ••• •••
Edinburgh (April Ito Aug. 1)
„ (Aug. 1 to Sept. 1)
(Sept. Ito Sept. 8)

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316
582
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General total ... 1,057 127
Note.—The number of attacks reported by the
union officers are—for the metropolis 422, and for
the country 729; but their returns do not, in general,
comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men
in private practice.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin.,—You, with other:journalists, are alive to the
shocking state of the Thames through " flushing ;"
but I see it still continued, and nothing said of filling
up cesspools, which should be done wherever possible,
without first flushing them out, by pumping, &c.
Lime-loose rubbish is very absorbent, and I have in
two or three instances induced persons to fill up their
cesspool of privies, and running the soil off into the
sewer by means of a water-closet on the spot where
stood privies, by which means a solid mass is formed,
instead of the old contagious stuff being pumped up
and driven into the river, spreading contagion in its
course. Filling up ought to be practised more with
cesspools and less flushing than it is.
I am, Sir, &c.,
A CONSTANT READER.

EXTRAORDINARY STORY.--A month ago a, bull two
Years old, the property of a farmer named Barker, at
Hurling, near Thetford, which had been apparently un.
Well for some time, became so ill that the veterinary
surgeon was sent for. He administered a strong purga-
tive medicine, not long after which the bull was relieved
of five snakes, two of which are each about 6 feet 3
inches long, and the other three are about 3 feet long
each. The medicine had killed them before they came
away. Our correspondent did not hear of this strange
occurrence until a few days since, but adds, " To-day I
called on the veterinary surgeon and saw the five snakes
in bottles. I could not see their heads, which seemed to
have been destroyed; but I should say they were un-
doubtedly snakes. They are now shrivelled and unnatural-
looking, but they are as thick as one's finger; and I have
no doubt the length is as the surgeon stated. He says
that he never met with anything like them in his prac-
tice, nor heard of such a thing. His conjecture is, that
they were swallowed by the bull in the egg. They are
In the possession of Mr. Rush, veterinary surgeon,
The Courrier de Lyon states that the vintage this
Year will be much below that of last year. The crop of
grapes is abundant, but the fruit is small. The vintage
13 expected to begin in the COMO of n Bnt week.