The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1866.

Committee of £5O and £75, with an intimation that
more money would be forthcoming if it should be
wanted, had thought it necessary to make an indi-
vidual appeal to the public. In his letter to the editor
of the Times Mr. Young had been a little disingenu-
ous, too, in stating in the body of it that he had re-
ceived £5O from the Mansion-house Committee,
whereas he bad in truth received £125. It was true,
in the list of subscriptions Mr. Young had appended
to his letter the two grants by the Mansion-house
Committee were included, but if it was right to state
either of the Mansion-house grants in the body of his
letter he should have stated both, and not one merely,
leaving the reader to conclude that he had received
only £5O, he having in point of fact received £125.

The whole committee signified that they en-
dorsed Mr. Blomfield's remarks. In the course of
the sitting, lasting over two hours, they made seve-
ral grants to ' local committees commensurate
with the apparent need in each case. Dr. An-
drew Clark, Physician to the London Hospital,
stated incidentally that 11 fresh cases of cholera had
been received into the institution that morning,
within the previous 14 hours, and that five of them
were as virulent as any that had been previously
treated there. lie took occasion also to mention a
kindly act on the part of Mr. Andrew Johnston, a
member of the Hons? of Committee of the Hos-
pital, who had that morning, he said, distributed
bunches of ripe grapes among the poor convalescent
patients in the cholera wards, and had given each
a bouquet of flowers.

The ship-to-ship visitation, mentioned in our
pages last week as having been instituted by the
committee of the Seamen's Hospital Society, is
working well. Each medical visitor carries in his
boat a white flag, with the letters " S. H." inscribed
thereon, and calls at from 60 to 100 vessels every
day. Four boats are detailed for this duty, starting
every morning from the Dreadnought with a supply
of medicines and disinfectants, and so keep up a
tolerably thorough supervision of the river between
London-bridge and Woolwich, including also the
City and Regent's Canals. Mr. Harry Leach, the
society's medical officer, reports that, though the
number of entries for cholera on board the Belleisle
has maintained during the past week an average of
two per day, the class of cases brought are, on the
whole, much more amenable to treatment, applica-
tions for admission having been, during the last
few 'days, generally made at an early stage of
the disease.. It is fairly probable that this visi-
tation on the Thames may account for so salu-
tary a change. More than 50 vessels, outward
bound, have received preventive medicines from
the Dreadnought, the masters of barges and other
small craft now finding it a matter of interest, as
well as humanity, to take that very simple precau-
tion before proceeding down the river. The Belle-
isle has, up to this time, received 46 patients, of
which 20 have recovered, 16 have died, and 11 are
still under treatment.

The following is the return of deaths from cholera
and diarrhoea registered on Saturday, Aug. 18 :
Cholera. Diarrhcea.
West districts ••• ••• 2 ... 3
North districts 2 ••• ... 4
Central districts... ... 3
East districts ... 38 ••• ... 7
South districts 8 ••• ... 6

Total ... ... 51 ... ... 23