The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

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about like one deranged,. calling for his " dear lost bov ;"
and on Friday put a period to his worldly career by swal-
lowing a large quantity of the oil of vitriol.
We believe it has been generally held by medical men
that the early or premonitory stage of cholera is almost
completely under control. It is confirmed by the result
of house-to-house visitation, which has been partially in
operation for a week or two in London ; and. this result is
so remarkable that we select two illustrations of it.
Within a few days, in Lambeth and Newington alone, the
medical visitors charged with house-to-house inspection
discovered and brought under immediate treatment 2,200
cases of diarrhoea, and 67 cases on the verge of cholera,
the whole of which they were able to stop by taking timely
measures of prevention. In Bethnal-green the medical
visitors record 1,600 cases of diarrhoea, 57 of rice-water
purging, and 69' of cholera discovered, and, with only
three exceptions, checked.
A LUCKY FlND.—About a week ago the wife of Thos.
Reece, a collier, residing at North Wingfield, Yorkshire,
was rummaging up some old pit clothes that had been
laid aside for a number of years, in order to find a patch,
and in the course of her search she met with a pair of old
trousers that had belonged to her husband's father, when
she found the watch pocket carefully stitched up, and
upon being cut open it contained a receipt for £55, which
had been placed in Messrs. "Wright and Co.'s bank, at
Nottingham, by David Reece, in the year 1833, and who
died iu March, 1842, without saying a word about it. The
wife, overjoyed, hastened to inform her husband of their
good luck, who immediately posted off to Nottingham,
and received the above sum, with £ll 15s. 2d. interest
—Derby Mercury
BAPTIST

—The negotiations for the occupation
Lapel. Cf:ny's inn-

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road, have been LrouL;ht to an unsuccessful ter:>,:r.ation.
The chapel is the property of Mr. Davenport, who, under
a commission of lunacy was declared some years ago in-
competent to manage his affairs. Now, as Mr. Daven-
port is an Episcopalian, the Court of Chancery will not
sanction the transfer of the chapel to a dissenter, on the
ground that if Mr. Davenport were compas mentis, he
would probably object to such a transfer, feeling bound
not to do any act of which Mr. Davenport, in his right
mird, might disapprove. Mr. Noel will hereafter be the
pastor of Mr. Harrington Evans's Baptist Chapel, John-
street, Bedford-row, London.
POPULATION or LONDON.—The number of deaths re-
gistered in London last week (says a correspondent) was
3,183 ; that is equal to 454 every day, 19 every hour, and
one person every three minutes. This may appear very
alarming to some readers, but they must bear in mind
that the vast extent and population of our metropolis,
London and its surrounding districts, contains nearly
3,000,000 persons. If the immense number of persons
were placed in a line, at a distance of 14 yards apart, they
would reach to the extent of 25,000 miles, or more than
the circumference the globe ;so that if persons died at
the above rate, viz., one every three minutes, and allowing
1,000 births every week, it would then be 26-years before
all the people in London were extinct.