The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-14 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

CIVIC PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHOLERA.
Yesterday, upon taking his seat at the Mansion-
house, the Lord Mayor said that at the present time,
when much apprehension was entertained regarding
the appearance of the cholera in this country, he was
happy to say that the greatest efforts were being made
by the City Commissioners of Sewers to enforce the
sanitary arrangements of the Board of Health, and
that the receipt of a letter that morning from the
President of the Royal College of Physicians had
given him much satisfaction; and as he thought it
might tend to the prevention of alarm, be could not
do better than hand it to the reporters who attended
for the public press for the information of his fellow-
c).tiz ens.

The following is a copy of the communication :
" Dover street, Oct. 12.
"My Lord Mayor,—Your Lordship, I feel assured,
will learn with satisfaction that the College of Physi-
cians has appointed a standing committee, consisting of
the physicians of the great metropolitan hospitals, and
other eminent persons, for the purpose of inviting and
considering communications on the subject of cholera,
and, if necessary, of suggesting such measures and pre-
cautions as may appear expedient to insure the confi-
dence and safety of the public.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord,
"Your Lordship's obedient servant,
" J. A. PARIS,
" President of the Royal College of Physicians.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.',
His Lordship then forwarded the letter to the City
Commissioners of Sewers.

We are informed that four cases, confidently stated
to be of .Asiatic cholera, were notified at Uxbridge
yesterday. In London scattered attacks were re-
ported, and very numerous cases of diarrhoea, but no
fatal cases. From Hamburgh we learn that up to
the 9th instant the total number of persons attacked
was 2,229, of whom 1,043 had up to that day fallen
victims; that 411 remained under treatment, and 775
had been cured. The information from Lubeck,
where the pestilence had broken out, was unfavour-
able; it was rapidly increasing.
WooLwrcer, OCT. 13.—The cases on board the
convict-ship Justitia up to this day are twenty-five,
six new cases having been reported within the previous
twenty-four hours. Of that number five are reported
as having died, aid one discharged. The other
eighteen are not apparently in any immediate dan-
ger, but so debilitated that their medical attendants
have not considered themselves
,justified in entering
them in the list of recoveries. There was no appear-
ance of any symptoms of the disease in the town or
parish of Woolwich, according to the returns of the
medical practitioners, up to twelve o'clock to-day.
The scarlet fever was abating, and a better state of
health prevailing within the last two days. It has
been observed that the Justitia convict-ship is at pree
sent stationed nppesite, the outlet of a sewer, and that
it would be advisable to have her removed farther
down the river.
EDINDUR6H.—We have not heard of the occur-
rence of any new cases of cholera since Tuesday even-
ing., and hopes are beginning to be entertained that
the disease will pats over the city without farther in-
creasing ite mortality. Some of our contemporaries
stated yesterday that the number of deaths from cho-
lera amounted to 25; but we understand that at least
three of these were cases of BritiAl cholera. At a
meeting held on Tuesday, the general acting commit-
tee of the parochial board of St. Cuthhert's appointed
twelve of their number to carry into effect the direc-
tions of the local Board of Health, as to the measures
to he adopted for the prevention and cure of cholera.
During the course of the proceedings it was stated
that the board hail an hospital ready for 24 patients,
and that if more accommodation was necessary there
was another ward which could be put into a satisfar-
tory state at an hour's notice, capable of holding 23
patients. The local Board of Health is constituted
as follows :—The Right Hon. Adam Black, SherlF
Gordon, Sir John APNeill, D. J. Thomson, q.
(Dean of Guild), Dr. Christison (President of the
Royal Colleze of Physicians). and Dr. Pagers (Presi •
dont of the Itosesi College of Surgeons).
LORD POSSOSBY'S REMEDY FOR CHOLERA.—The
following is a transcript of part of a letter from Lord
l'onsonby to the Bishop of Derry :—" The cholera is,
I perceii;e, making its way in these dominions; I
the:4.)re send you a prescription which, if taken in
time, is a certaia cure, and has proved to be so in
many cases to my own knowledge. Its simplicity,
and the extremely mintV.e clean:icy of the doses, will
probably induce you to doubt of its efficacy, but trust
to this iact, that you will have had experience of its
power and virtue before it will be in your power to
obtain medical advice; that is to say, in a quarter of
an hour or twenty-five minutes. Observe one thing,
via., if you take any other thing than cold or iced
water its whole effect will be destroyed. All
you have to do is to place the patient in bed,
and not to overload him with clothes, or plague bins
Kith any external application., but leave him to the
medicine ; which is, one-sixth part of camphor dis-
solved in six parts of strong spirits of wine, or two
drachms of camphor to an ounce and a half of spirits
of wine. Of this, immediately on being attacked,
the patientds to take two drops on a little pounded \
sugar, in a teaspoonful of cold or iced water ; in five
minutes after, two more drops ; and so continue until
the symptoms begin to yield. If the vomiting
should be violent, so as to render it difficult for the f
stomach to retain the medicine, a small piece of ice
about the size of a nutmeg must be given before and
after the camphor; proceed till there is a sense of
returning warmth, with a disposition towards perspi-
ration, and a manifest decrease of sickness and cramps,
kc. This will never fail if done at once, and will
always do good at any period of the disease, but the
least mixture of medicine neutralises. the effects of
the camphor.—Yours ever, PONSONEY. To the Hon.
and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry. 1832."

EMIGRATION.
TO THE EDI7OR OF THE SUN.

Sza,—As public opinion begins to be favourable to
my plan cf emigration and colonization through poor-
law unions, I beg to go rather more into detail. To make
emigration a real benefit to the mother country and
the colonies, Government should make a scale, and
give land to every union and emigration society in
proportion to the number of emigrants they seat out.
Suppose the cost of conveying to Australia a man or
woman is 201., Government should signify that land
in the proportion of twenty acres for every adult,
and about five acres for every child, would be placed
at the disposal of any party sending out emigrants ; a
poor-law union, for instance, could then give the ne-
cessary notice that it had the land to sell ; and for the
purpose of elucidation we will presume that twenty
purchasers came forward and took 1,000 acres, no
improbable circumstance. This, at 11. per acre,
would yield. the union 1,0001., out of which the pas-
sage money of the twenty purchasers would have to
be paid, leaving 600/. to promote the emigration of
thirty poor persons, or to aid the emigration of the
connexions of the twenty purchasers, as might be
agreed on between them and the union. In some
cases, perhaps, none but persons requiring twenty
acres each would offer, then there would be nothing
to spare. My object is to make unions retailers of
land ; for, desirable as it is to have ten and twenty-
acre men in the colonies, as well as great capitalists
and mere labourers, yet it is not in the power of Go-
vernment to crane such a class ; the process would
be too tedious, and can only be efficiently done by
local authorities. Every person who can pay 201.
ought to have a right to demand a passage out and
twenty acres of land on his arrival.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Hall, Oct. 9, 1848. T. R.

INQUEST ON THE BODY OP MR. SIITJARD, AT BIR.-
ximsuAm.-13/RmINGHAm, FRIDAY.—To-day an in-
quest on the body of the above gentleman was com-
menced at the Queen's hotel, before J. B. Davies, Esq.,
coroner, and a hhly respectable jury. Some evidence
having been taken, the inquest was adjourned till next
Friday.
SALE OP THE MEDICAL TIMES AND PHAP-MA.-
cEUTICAL TlMES.—Yesterday morning Mr. Hodgson,
the auctioseer, submitted to public competition, under
the order of the mortgagees in poavession, the copyright
and printed stock-of these weekly medical journals: The
former, which has been established nearly nine years,
gained considerable notoriety a short time since in con-
sequence of a series of libellous attacks which appeared
in its columns upon Mr. Wakely, the coroner, and who
was at that time and still is the proprietor and editor of
the Lancet, a rieal journal. In consequence of these
attacks, Mr. Wektey entered several actions for libel, in
all of which he was successful, and heavy damages were
inflicted upon the defendant, which in all probability led
to the present sale, as the auctioneer stated its receipts
at this time to be such as to produce a clear income of
10001. peeannum. The first offer for the entire copy-
right and right of continuation of the Medical i Imes
was 3001, which rose slowly until it reached 1,7101., at
which figure it was ultimately knocked down to Messrs.
Tyler and Reed, the well-known painters. The Phlr-
maceutical Times was than put up, but, despite of the
elecpence of Mr, fledgion, it Veiled to one single
offer, and the sale, after a considerable delay, was ad-
journed.

DIOCESAN VISITATION AND CONSECRATION.-OE-
FORD, FRIDAY.—The Lord Bishop of o.,Cord hylfi his
annitial visitation on Thursday (yesterday), at the Uni-
versity church, St. Mary's, Oxford. There w.,s a I,,ir7e
attendance of the rezident and neighbouring dot.„). anew
churchwarden,. The service (which was a hull eathcd: al
one) commenced at eleven o'clock, and w.:s not over
until within m;roit,ns of four. His Lordsldp's
charge occupied nearly three hours. This morning his
Lordship, 2.t!ended by Dr. Philhmore, the Venerable
Archdeacon Clarke, R. Morrell, Esq.; the Ws,. Robert
Hussey, B.D. ;Charles Page Edf.:n. James Elnin
lard, J-2hn William Knott, Thomas Chatmb.:rl.,tin, Rot.ert
11 Fake, thirles Warner, and several other of the paroel,ial
clergy, consecrated the newly-erected chapel and bury-
ing prounil adjoining Helywen Church, and derlient«l it
Saint" Cross. This is the third cemetery that his
Lordship has oonsecrated in Oxford within the last six
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