The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-18 00:00:00

The Cholera.

The total number of deaths reported at the work-
house in Liverpool up to 10 o'clock yesterday was
13, an d there remained in the cholera wards nine
cases, .of which two were expected to prove fatal.
The select vestry held a meeting yesterday, and it
was resolved that, should the cholera continue, a
house-to-house visitation of all the poorer districts
should be undertaken, and the assistance of the
medical men of the town who had the time to spare
to aid in the ;work be procured. It was also re-
solved, as considerable risk must be incurred by
keeping cholera cases within the workhouse walls,
and as it was very desirable that the families in
which the disease had appeared should at once be
isolated, to re-engage for another term the exten-
sive new warehouses at Bankhall, which it will be
remembered did such good service at the time of the
Helvetia outbreak. These warehouses will accom-
modate with ease from 300 to 400 persons, and it is
intended to remove thither not only all the actual
cases, but also the families of all who may be at-
tacked, and among whom there may be any danger
of contagion, and those as well who may be re-
quired to leave their houses to admit of sanitary
improvements. A separate staff and separate stores
are being arranged, and when these are completed, in
the course of another day, the isolation will be as per-
fect as well can be. Shields, Tuesday.--The cholera
has appeared in an epidemic form in South Shields,
in Union-alley, the " St. Giles's" of that seaport
town, where common-lodging houses for tramps
abound. Yesterday week a woman named Fla-
nagan, staying at a lodging-house in the alley, kept
by a person named M'Cririck, took ill, and, as she
showed choleraic symptoms, she and her daughter
were removed to the workhouse hospital. The
mother recovered, but on Thursday last the daughter,
who had been placed among the other children in
the workhouse took ill ; but by prompt attention
she, too, was restored to health. A strong, healthy-
looking girl, named Hannah Dalton, 15 years of
age, who had been in the school-room with little
Flanagan, retired to rest in the workhouse on Sa-
turday night apparently quite well, but between 3
and 4 o'clock on Sunday morning she was seized
with diarrhcea, and when the master of the work-
house was called up hefound her becoming cold and
her finger-nails turning blue. The medical officer
of the union was sent for. When he reached the
workhouse he pronounced the girl in a hopeless
state.= She continued to grow worse, became
cramped, and sank into a state of collapse, dying at
3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. A Mrs. Wright,
residing in Union-alley, showed the premonitory
symptoms of cholera on Thursday, and was at-
tended by the medical officer to the Board of Health
and a surgeon from the dispensary, but she died in
a collapsed state on Saturday night. Flanagan had
been confined in the workhouse, and had left it two
days before the foreign seaman who died of cholera
there was brought in. The woman Wright had
eaten heartily of cherries the day before she was
seized with diarrhcea. Union-alley, where the dis-
ease has manifested itself, has always suffered
severely from the effects of cholera on occasions
when it has previously been epidemic in South
Shields. Since the deaths mentioned above no
more fatalities have occurred. The general health of
the town is very good, and the intense hot weather
of last week has been succeeded by cool breezes, and
a somewhat low temperature, with a clear sky.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LEEDS-TUESDAY.

A moderate show of wheat. Trade dull, at about recent
currencies. Other kinds of grain were limited in supplh
and last week's prices were supported.

MARKET HARBOROUGH.-T UESDAY.

Old white wheat, 56s to 60s ; new red. 53s to 58s per 36
stone. Barley, fine, —s ; other kinds, 28s to 38s per 30 st.
Oats, new, 26s to 32s ; old, 32s to 36s per qr. Beans, 0111
48s to 535; now, 42s to 46s ptr qr.