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

The Cholera.

Tht total number of deaths reported at the work-
house in Liverpool up to 10 o'clock yesterday was
13, and there
emained 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 tiro cholera continue, 3
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 ill
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 sauitarl
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 diarrhoea, 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, bees!
cramped, and sank into a state of collapse, dying a"
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 Heath
a surgeon from the dispensary, but she died .'
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 101,
eaten heartily of cherries the day before she vas
seized with diarrhoea. Union-alley, where the al Is-
ease has manifested itself, has always suffer':
severely from the effects of cholera on occasion:
when it has previously been epidemic in South
Shields. Since the deaths mentioned above no
more fatalities have occurred. The general health 0t
,1.
the town is very good, and the intense hot weathe,'
of last week has been succeeded by cool breezes, an
a somewhat low temperature, with a clear sky.