Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-23
Whitmore, Of the Custom House, has been posted


"Sir-In reply to your letter of this date,
beg to inform you that an order has been received
! from the Lords Council, acquainting this Board
that clean Bills of Health are not to be issued to
vessels clearing out from the port of London, and
that it should be stated in tue bills that cases OF
Cholera have occurred in London within the last
two DAYS.
am, sir, your most obedient servant.
J. WHITMORE.
"John Bennet, Esq. Secretary Lloyd's."
London, Feb. l5.-The total number of cases
reported at Rotherhithe, Radcliffe highway, Lam.
beth and Southwark, are as follows
Cases 16 Deaths T
In the north Of England the number Of cases
since our last publicationnas been according to the
official reports 465; the deaths l27-making a
total in that part Of the kingdom since its com.
meucement of 4452 cases, and 1891 deaths.
Council Office, Whitehall, FEB. Is, 1852
The Lords Of the Council have just received an
intimation that the Bishop OF London has direct
ed the Clergy Of his Diocese in no cases to per-
nit the bodies of persons dying Of the cholera to
be carried into the Church previous to interment.
Among the propositions made respecting the
cholera, is a plan proposed by a physician, for
families to contract, at fixed price per quarter,
to have daily medical visits, to regulate The ge-
neral health Of the household This plan must
produce good results.
DIR. White. Of Gateshcad, in letter published
by him. states that the most general premOnitory
symptoms IN cases Of cholera are, first, diarhra;
the evacuatlOns at the commencement, OF a dark
brown or backish hue, gradually becoming less
and less feculent, until they assume the appear
ance of dirty water. Slight cramps, most fire.
quently of the toes, twitchings in the abdomen.
with giddiness and sickness occasionally accom-
panyins it. The treatment which DR.. White has
found so beneficial in combating these symptoms,
is expressed in the following extract
Il beg most particularly to enforce the benefit
derivable from washing the whole body with warm
water, aud afterwards producing genial glow
upon the surface BY frictions with coarse cloths
was induced to adopt this plan for two reasons
First, from the known sympathy between the
stomach and bowels and the skin; and secondly,
because am of opinion that strong injecting
medium exists in the fifth allowed To accumulate
upon the persons of the poor. their clothes alb.
sorblng the nox,ous exhalaions that Hoat around
in contaminated atmosphere, thus presenting
the cutaneOus pores, u NAV SD express myself
perfect plaster Of Infection"
DR.. G.. Negri, in the Lancet of February H.,
strongly recommends the trial of pure bark, ell
Their in place Of opium or brandy, or in combina-
ton with them, in cases Of malignant cholera. -
Hi. conclusi0 ns in favor Of his remedy are drawn
from the intermittent character which distln-
gushes this disease. He observes 4" am very
str0nlv inclined to believe in ITS efficacy, because
it is but a very short time ago since had the
opportunity OF seeing, at public institution, two
very similar instances which presented more Sc
we're SYMPTOMS, and perfectly cured by the Tree
administration of bark alone"
On the 18th February, the day aftes the Cho'
lera appeared in London, the attention OF the
House Of Commons was called to the subject. -
Mr.. Thompson in reply to Mr. Croker stated
that cases of decided Cholera had certainly &C.
Cured. and that as the best way Of preventing
unnecessary alarm, the government had adopted
every possible method to spread correct lnforma'
ton on the subject, thro ugh the medium OF the
publc journals, SC. &c. Government, he sa'd,
were about to apply for bill to increase the pow
er of the Prlvy Council, so as to enable them to
take more efectual means for checking the pro-
gress of the distemper. The Chancellor Of the
Exchequer added that series Of papers illustra
tive Of the character and progress OF the Cho'er'
would be shortly laid before Parliament. These
papers were afterwards. on Tuesday the 18th OF
February, laid before both Houses and ordered
to be printed.
In the House Of Commons on the 18th, thu
bill for preventing. as far as may be possible, thu
extension of the Cholera in England, was pass
ed. A similar bill for Scotland was brought II
aud read first time. The House afterwards
resolved itself into Committee on the Reform
Bill. when several clauses were agreed to.
} Mr. Sadler, in the House Of Commons, present
ed bill, signed by 10000. IN favor of his bill
for shortening the hours Of labor Of children in tn
factories. He stated, at the same time, from hi
own knowledge, that the strong allegations in thu
petition Of extreme cruelty on the part'of man.
masters of factories towards children, were strict
y true, aud he should hereafter take the opportu
nifty to show that the mortality in the large manu-