The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-18 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The Board of Directors of the General Dispensary,
Alderagato-street, have made arrangements to receive
patients at the institution, who will meet with immediate
from the medical officers in cases of severe diarrhoea.

STEPNEY.—Yesterday an inqutst was held by Mr.
Baker on the body of a seaman named John Spencer,
aged 52, belonging to a Newcastle collier called the
Roseville. Mr. Chalend, surgeon, of Ratcliffe, described
the symptoms. and said that it was a most decided case
of Asiatic cbolera.—Verdict accordingly.
EDGWARE-ROAD.—A fatal case is also reported of a
sailor belonging to a North Shields trader who was
lodging in Burn-street, Edge ware-road.
Letters from Amsterdam of the 13th state that
several cases of Asiatic cholera have been declared
in that city:, some of which have terminated fatally.
At Konigsberg (Prussia) the disease is raging fearfully,
and up to the 10th inst. 720 persons had been attacked,
of whom 286 succumbed, and only 112 were cured.

THE QUARANTINE.
Yesterday afternoon it was stated, in answer to in-
quiries made at the Board of Health by persons con-
nested with the shipping of the port of London, that re-
presentations had been made to the Privy Council of the
evil and inutility of quarantine, especially after cases of
Asiatic cholera had already broken out in different parts
of the country in spite of the quarantine. It was an-
nounced in the afternoon, however, that in consequence
of the Board's notification of the fact of cases of Asiatic
cholera being in England, it had been determined, and
orders would now be forthwith given, to have the
quarantine removed.

- Eleven cases of cholera were reported yesterday in the
metropolis, making fifteen cases in addition to those re-
ported by the Registrar-General up to Saturday. Active
exertion were making in several districts by the local
authorities.

From the information received in town it still appears
that the progress of the disease was marked and decided
in Edinburgh and its neighbourhood. The following
were the cases reported of Asiatic cholera from the
4th to the 16th inst., and examined by the local au-
thorities :

No. of Cases. Died. Recovered, Remaining,
In Edinburgh . 42 ... 34 ... 6 ... 2
Newhaven 2l ... 15 ... 5 ... 1
Leith 27 ... 16 ... 3 ... 8

Total ... 90 65 14 11
The following are the localities in Edinburgh where
the cases have occurred :—Abbey•hill, Calton-street,
Canongate, Clyde-street, Cowgate, Grass-market, Ile-
riot-place, South St.:James's-street, St. Cuthbert's Poor-
house, Greenside-row, Pleasances, Tobago-street, West
Porto

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The deaths from all causes, according to the statement
of the Registrar-General, amounted during the weak
ending on the 14th inst. to 991, being 163 below the
Weekly average computed from the weeks of 1843-4-5-6
and 7. Of this number of deaths 30 are stated to have
arisen from cholera in various parts of the metropolis,
thus:—ln the London Hospital, a man, aged 65 years,
Asiatic cholera, 36 hours' duration. In Aldgate, a
boy, 1 year old, Asiatic cholera, 24 hours' duration.
In St. George's-in-the East, a man, Asiatic cholera,
11 hours' duration. In Bermondsey, a man, aged 40
years, Asiatic cholera, In Lambeth, a man, 39 years
of age, Asiatic oholera, four days' duration. In vvichWool-
Arsenal, a man, 60 years of age, cholera, 8
hours' duration (inquest). In sub-district, Greenwich,
-a convict, 40 years of age, Asiatic cholera, 11 hours'
duration (inquest). In the same sub-district, a con-
vict, 31 years of aye, Asiatic cholera, 4 hours' du-
ration (inquest). In the same sub-district, a con-
vict, 42 years of age, Asiatic cholera, 13 hours'
duration (inquest). In the same sub-district, a convict,
aged 55 years, Asiatic cholera, 8 hours' duration (in-
quest). The above five deaths occurred on board the
Unite hospital ship on the Thames, off the Royal Arse-
nal. There have been no cases in the Arsenal or in any
part of the town. In St. Olave district, Tooley-street, a
woman 49 years of age, Asiatic cholera, 18 hours' du-
ration. In Chelsea south (sub-district), a boy, 14 years
of age, cholera morbus, 16 hours' duration. In the same
district, a man, 40 years of age, cholera morbus, 30
hours' duration. Same district, a man, 68 years of age.
cholera morbus, 12 hours' duration. In the same dis-
trict, a man, 46 years of age, cholera Anglica, one weeks
duration. In the same district, a girl, 13 years of age,
cholera morbus, 37 hours' duration. In Bethnal-green,
a boy, 11 weeks old, English cholera, one week's
duration. In Spitalfields, a woman, 32 years old, ma-
lignant oholera, 29 hours' duration. In St. John's
sub-district, St. Olave's, a man, 77 years of age,
cholera, 65 hours' duration. In the same sub-district, a
man, 30 years of age, cholera maligne, 32 hours'idura-
tion. In the same house, a female, 2 years of age,
diarrhoea, convulsing. In St. James, Bermondsey, a
girl, 6 years old, cholera, 13 hours' duration. In Lam-
beth, first part sub-district, a man, 22 years of age,
cholera, nine hours' duration (not certified). In the same
sub-district, a man, 25 years of age, cholera 2 days'dura-
lion. In Rotherbithe, a man, 25 years of age. English
cholera, 24 hours' duration. In the same sub-district,
a boy, 6 years old, cholera, 24 hours' duration. In
St. Paul's, Deptford, a woman, 31 years of age,
cholera, 4 days' duration. In the Dreadnought hos-
pital ship, a man, 21 years of nge' cholera. In the
same ship, a man, 23 years of age, cholera ; and a boy,
16 years of age, who had recovered from the sma I-
diarrhcest, 27 days' duration, sudden vomiting, purg-
ing, and collapseXabout 24 hours). At Clapham, a
Ittala, 44 years of age, malignant cholera, 9 hours' dura-
tion. The deaths from scarlatina amount, during the
aanlei Week, to 188, being an excess of 8 over the week
r2rreceding, and excess of 34 on the week ending on the
-9th of September last. The deaths by typhus during
the week ending on the 14th of October inst. wore 80,
an excess of 15 over the preceding week; by diarrhoea
tand dsentery, 39, being a decrease of 20 from the week
reeding. The number of births during the week ending
ctober 14th inst. was 1,303. The mean temperature of
the thermometer during the week was 52.1, above 8
degrees below the temperature of the preceding week.
NUMBER OP DEATHS FROM ALT, CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATUItDAT, OCT. 14, 1848.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases
....448
Diseases of Uncertain Seat •
Turbercular Diseases... ***
*** 36
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses...
...131
Diseases of the Heart and 8100d-vessels 84
Diseases of the Lungs, and •other Ora.g.ans .0.. f 32
Respiration ...
••• ••• ..• Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and othe;:Orga.n.; 90
of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c."
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, L. ."
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
•••
Diseases of the Skin, &c,
Malformations... ***
***
***
Premature Birth •••
•••
Atrophy
Old Age ."
.11 *es
Sudd
en." . ."
Violence Privation, Cold, or" Intemperance
Causes not specified ...
DEATHS FROE ALL CAUSE!

... 40

... 20

... 32

... 22

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7. in the
1841. Sum mers. Week.
West Districts... 300,711 . . Five
142 North D.4triets.. 375,971 .. ... 139
•.. 183 182
Central Districts 373,653
... 17$ ...
East Districts ... 392,444 ... 219 233
South Districts.. 501,190 ... 251 ...33
... 266
---- - -
Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 972 ... gq i

Males
Females

... 470
... SJI

... 706
... 597