The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

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called. at-the instigation of Mr. Liddle, the medical officer
of the district, in consequence of his having been called

to attend no less than five cases of Asiatic cholera in the
court where this death took place. Mr. Liddle stated
that the court was about 70 feet in length, and about five

feet wide (a person standing in

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was impeded by a deac

were overflowing. He had no doubt the child died a
natural death from Asiatic cholera. The coroner re-
marked that the court was one of the worst he had
witnessed, and it appeared impossible to remedy the
defective ventilation of it. He said he would write to
the parochial authorities respecting it. Mr. Liddle ob-
served that it was highly expedient that an officer of
health should be appointed to the Tower Hamlets, who
should have power to compel the owners of property to
render the houses which are let to poor people whole-
some, and if the property be so bad that it cannot be
remedied, then it should be condemned. The law now
gave power to surveyors to condemn property that was
dangerous from dilapidation. The same power ought to
be given to an officer of health, to condemn houses which
endangered the lives of the inhabitants from poisonous
emanations. The coroner said he believed there was a law
which rendered an owner liable to the charge of man-
slaughter if a case of death ensued from the unhealthy
condition of a dwelling-house.

AN IMPORTANT CURE BY THE USE OF HOLLOWAY'S
PlLLS.—Extract of a letter from a gentlenrairnsitling at
St. Helier's, addressed to the edi of the Mirror de
Jersey, dated June, 1847. " • ,—For some time I had
suffered from a severe mal y, for which I sought the
advice of the most emi of the faculty. but to no pur-
pose. I resolved, refore (and in sheer despair), to
give Holloway's s a trial ;by the use of one box I
found mysel ttp., and by a short continuance of this
inapprec- e medicine, I was perfectly cured, to the great
astonis went of my neighbours, who supposed that I
could not possibly have recovered.

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DOUBLE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Thursday morn-
ing last, a little before six o'clock, the inhabitants of Pex-
wood, were thrown in great alarm by seeing a woman in
the road almost destitute of clothes. Two men, named
Folds and Crowther, went up to her, and found her to 'as
Miss Taylor, who had evidently been attempting to drown
hers3lf in the water-trough. They conducted her into her
house, and it was soon discovered that her brother, John
Taylor (with whom she lived), had been also attempting
to put an end to his existence by cutting his throat. Mr.
W. Foster, surgeon, of Todmorden, was immediately sent
for, and he found that the man had cut the skin and in..
teguments over the jugular vein, but had not damaged it.
He also found that he had tied a string round his arm and
inflicted several cuts with the intent of bleeding himself
to death.—Halifax Guardian.

FASHIONABLE SWINDLING IN EDlNBURGH.—Consider-
de excitement has been occasioned in certiin quarters

Edinburgh, by the apprehension of a person on a. charge
forgery, who has during the last few months mixed
!ely in the higher circles of society here, and lived in a

hotels in the city

the Dr

appears that he had assumed a high

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degree of military rank, -and had extensively patronised
various establishments in town, chiefly clothiers and mer-
cers, from whom he obtained a large supply of articles, at

by paying cash down

r the goOds he yurchased ;

he then

businc

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d sud-

denly left the city without

against him

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