The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

MANSION HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE.

Yesterday a special meeting of the working com-
mittee was held at the Mansion-house ; the Lord
Mayor presiding.
There were also present Sir Mordaunt Wells, Mr.
J. A. Smith, M.P., the Rev. F. G. Bloinfield, Mr.
Charles Hutton, Mr. Needham, Mr. R. Wigram,
Mr. W. J. Maxwell, Dr. A. Clark, Mri, Henry
Ripley, and Rev. W. Rogers.
A deputation from Nottingdale attended before
the committee, of which Mr. Allan, a clergyman
residing in the district, but not parochially con-
nected with it, was the spokesman. They repre-
sented that in St. Andrew, Notting-hill, and Kens-
ington potteries cholera had recently made its
appearance in a very virulent form, there having
been several deaths within the last few days, with
all the Asiatic symptoms.
The committee granted them £25, and also made
an additional grant of £5O to the Wapping Hos-
pital, a grant of £2O to the Tower Hamlets Dis-
pensary, and £l5 to St. Thomas Charterhouse
Schools. A grant of stores was made to the Poplar
and South Bromley committee.
Sir MORDAUNT WELLS reported that from care-
ful and minute inquiries he had made, and from re-
turns sent in by the local committees, the Mansion-
house committee would have to provide in the first
instance for 521 orphans, and that of the
Bishop of London for 539, as the result
of the recent conference and scrutiny between the
two committees. Since that the names of over 100
orphans more had been returned, all of them being dis"
tressing cases, several having lost both parents, who
were respectable people. He had no hesitation in
stating that out of £5,000 which the Mansion-house
committee had set apart for orphans they would
have to provide for at least 560.
On the motion of Sir Mordaunt Wells, £374 was
voted by the committee for the relief of 187 poor
widows whose husbands had died of cholera, leaving
children dependent upon them.
The committee had a long conference with the
local committees from the various districts in the
east of London in reference to the apportionment
of the money voted for that purpose by the com-
mittee (£5,000), the general result of which was
that the committee having stated the sum they in-
tend to give towards the maintenance of each orphan,
and ascertained the number of orphans to be relieved
it was left to the local committees to prepare each
of them a scheme as to the expenditure of the
money, such scheme to be submitted to the Mansion
house Committee afterwards for their approval ge-
fore being carried into effect.
The Lord Mayor, addressing the local com-
mittees, said that their formation for the special
purpose of meeting the epidemic might be made the
groundwork of a powerful agency for some com-
bined action, with the view to improve the condi-
tion of the poor as to the manner in which they
lodged, as disclosed by the house-to-home visita-
tions made during the disease, and he hoped those
committees would not allow them to vanish into
" thin air." London proper, he said, owed them
the deepest obligation, and he urged them to pro-
secute the good work for the relief of the destitute
widows and orphans with such assistance in money
as the Mansion-house Committee would be able to
render. In that committee no other feeling was
recognised but that of humanity. They had
nothing to do with Churchmen, Catholics, Dissenters,
or Jews. They were a working committee for the re-
lief of distress, and to that view of their duties in
the emergency much of their success was attributable.
The committee then adjourned.

The following is the official return of deaths in
London from cholera and diarrhoea registered on
Sunday, Sept. 30, and Monday, Oct. 1:
Cholera. Diarrhoea.
West districts ... 1 1
North districts 8 ... 1
Central districts ... • 1 ••• 5
East districts ... ... 14 ... 6
South districts ... 10 ... 4

Total ... ... 34 ... 17
The return for the sub-districts of St. James's-
square and Borough-road were not received in time
for publication.