The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-13 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The daily returns of births and deaths in London
registered on Friday, the 10th inst., says :
"It is gratifying to be able to announce that
cholera is less fatal than it was in London. The
daily registered average in the previous week was
150 ; while on Sunday and Monday last 249, on
Tuesday 130, Wednesday 109, Thursday 114, Friday
85 deaths from cholera were recorded. The deaths
from diarrhoea and other causes have all declined.
The improvement in the east London districts is
well marked. This is encouraging. By the assidu-
ous employment of judicious measures the develop-
ment of the pestilence may be stopped."
The Mansion House Relief Committee held a
meeting on Saturday in relation to the funds now be-
ing raised there for the relief of cholera patients and
of persons suffering from the loss of heads of families
by the disease—Sir Mordaunt Wells presiding. A
sum amounting to nearly £5,000 had been received
at the Mansion-house and at various banks in con-
nection with it up to Saturday evening, since Tuesday
last, in public donations for these humane objects. At
the rising of the committee £740 in all bad been
the
necessities to different localities, in sums adapted to
necessities and circumstances of each, and the com-
Ap-
plications were made to,share in the fund by various
com-
mittee are open to entertain fresh applications.
.Bromley-by-
hadeenw,eligtratford, the
local bodies—namely, from S
Bow, Spitalfields, B
the-East, where the epidemicln the course of the proceed-
ingsdegrees of intensity.
neighbourhood of the ebhoncaklgrapnrdevSaitis. Gietiorvgaer'sy-iinng-
Westminster to the Catholicc era
Archbishop of t
of s the metropolis, was read, sug-
gesting applications without delay to the local
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any general fund. Archbishop
,4 waking" or assembling at funerals of more than
the number of persons who may be properly or ac-
tually required. In the event, he added, of any
children being left orphans by the cholera, their
ageswereto
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en tirely approved the suggestions
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contained
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As the LA oslinodp'ons chiricousplaitr.
a
1 only admits extreme
cases, and that to the extent of its very limited ac-
commodation, and as there are many constantly
occurring in which the only chance of recovery lies
in the immediate removal of the sufferers
from poor
and ill-ventilated dwellings to an hospital, it is in
contemplation to convert a large, new, unoccupied
building in Commercial-street, Spitalfields, into a
temporary hospital for the reception and treatment
of cholera patients. It consists of three tiers or
floors, and would afford accommodation to at least
200 inmates. The proposal was brought under the
consideration of the committee on Saturday, by
Mr. E. 11. Palmer, a director of the Bank of Eng-
land, and they regarded it with such approval that
they stated their readiness to grant £5OO towards
the expense of giving effect to it, or a larger sum, if
• .
necessary.