The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-08 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA AT PLYMOUTH.

JUNE 6.—We regret to state that this direful disease
has at length made its appearance at Plymouth. It
appears from the facts that have been communicated to
us that about mid-day onTuesday the American packet-
ship American Eagle, Captain Chadwick, arrived here
from London and Portsmouth, bound to New York, with
about three hundred emigrants on board. On Tuesday
afternoon the ship put into the Sound, owing to the
cholera having broken out on board. It appears they
left London on Thursday, the 31st of May, all perfectly
well, and the first case of cholera, which is of the con-
firmed Asiatic character, was that of a German child,
and soon after her father was attacked, and died. These
parties came from Rotterdam, where the cholera has
prevailed. Six other passengers were soon after taken
ill, and died before the arrival of the ship. Another died
on Tuesday evening, and more during the night.
These made nineteen cases since the disease broke out
on Saturday; and this afternoon there were about thirty
snore cases of persons suffering under the premonitory
symptoms, of diarrhoea, &c. Immediately on the
arrival of the American Eagle in the Sound, the Ame-
rican consul, Thomas Were Fox, Esq., sent Mr. Francis
Fox, surgeon, on board, and havineafterwards consulted
with the Mayor, that gentleman also sent Mr. Freeman,
surgeon, on board, on behalf of the town and corporation,
both of whom confirmed the statements as to the wide-
spreading existence of the disease, which prevailed en-
tirely among the poorer class of passengers. Application
was then made to Sir William Hall Gage, the port-
admiral, for a hulk to be sent alongside, in which to
remove the sick. A. S. Allen, Esq., M.D., surgeon to
the Royal Naval Hospital, was, by the Admiral's orders,
dispatched on board during the night, and his report
coinciding with.those of the other surgeons, the Tyne
frigate was ordered to be got ready, and will be towed
down to the Sound this afternoon, and serve as an hos-
pital for the sick, who will be removed into it as soon as
they fall ill. Every attention will be paid to them by
Mr. Francis Fox, who has been authorised to avail him-
self of any further medical assistance he may require.
The dead bodies of the persons who first died were
taken out several miles beyond the Breakwater and
there sunk; but as it is thought unadvisable to pvers3
this course, endeavours are being made to find a suit-
able place of interment for those who may be the fur-
ther victims of this subtle disease. To add to the general
distress which such a melancholy circumstance must oc-
casion, we learn that all the crew, 17 in number, have
refused to clean the ship. These men are A. mencan
sailors, having been engaged at
i New York from that
city to England and back. A flag sto be hoisted when
the hulk comes down, to ascertain what assistance the
captain may require. Of course cabin passengers as
well as others are most anxious to leave the ship, and
many
of them have doubtless done so. When our cot-
respopelent was on board yesterday there were more
than 20 shore boats alongside, and the waternaen were
holding out every inducement to the people on board to
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assistance in this emergency. At the time the cholera
was raging at sea, we regret to say it had broken out
within a few miles of this town at a little fishing town
callA Newton Ferrers or Noss, which is situated on the
hark of the Yealm, about eight miles from Plymouth.
In that, place five persons have died of cholera. The
wkoither been remarkably fine or lute, and the at-
nio,pli-re :ult.:), and roiling. To-day it has rained a
good deal, but !here is still a pressure on the uir, which
the raid has failed to remove.

RE•AFPEARANCE OF THU CILIOLERA.—At, an in-
quest held yesterday at the Middlesex Hospital, before
Air. 11. M. Wakley, a juror asked the Coroner if it was
true that tho cholera, after expiring in London, had
again made its appearance? The Coroner rep!ied that
he was sorry to say it had; for on one day last week he
held three inquests on persons who had died of Asiatic
cholera, and the day before yesterday (Wednesday) he
had a similar case Brentwood. The juror inquired if
it was quite safe to view the bodies, as there were doubts
whether it was or was not infectious. The Coroner an-
swered that no one need in the slightest degree fear
contamination; and he might mention that no person
who was properly clothed, fed, and cleansed, need fear
the choler a. In nine cases out of ten, or indeed all the
eases he had seen, the disease bad been brought on ny
!UM of food. _