The Sun. — 1848-09-14 (London, England)

LONDON GENERAL DISPENSARY.—The quarterly meeting of the governors of this institution was held at the Dispensary, Aldersgate-street, yesterday : W. Atkinson, Esq. (Chairman), presiding. The report read stated that the finances of the institution are now in a prosperous condition, and that the number of patients admitted during the quarter commencing April 1 and ending June 30 was 4,159. Of these 1,845 had been cured, 521 were relieved, and 24 died, leaving 1,769 still under cure. The total number of patients from the Ist of January last to June 30 was 6,936. In 1833 the number was from 4,000 to 5,000, and since that period it had been gradually increasing, until last year it amounted to no fewer than 12,000, and this year they would probably reach 14,000. Indeed, the applications augment so rapidly as to render an increase of public support to the funds absolutely indispensable to enable the Committee to carry on their benevolent operations efficiently. An important feature in connexion with this charity (which is open to the poor resident in all the various districts of the Metropolis, without exception) is, that its medical officers visit the afflicted at their own homes, and the proportion of patients at present receiving out door succour is between 2,000 and 3,000 annually. An alteration in the regulations for granting relief, which will have the effect of dispensing; in urgent cases, with the necessity for obtaining a letter of recommendation from a governor to qualify an applicant for admission, was unanimously adopted, and the business' terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. C. J. Carttar held an inquest at the Yorkshire Grey, Blackheath-hill, upon the body of Edward Winters, a horse-dealer, who met his death under the following circumstances:—Richard Carter, surgeon, Blackheath-road, was called to attend deceased on Thursday morning last. Oa examination he found that his'shoulder had been dislocated and his collar-bone fractured, and other serious injuries on the chest, back, and ribs, all of which were greatly bruised. Deceased said he had been thrown from a cart, along with two other persons, near Lewisham church, when returning from a trotting match on Bromley Common. Said that be was convinced he should die. He rallied, but inflammation of the lungs came on afterwards, and he died on Monday, After other evidence, the jury returned a verdict of if Accidental death." SUICIDE ritold DaritEss.—Yesterday Mr. Mills held an inquest at this 'Palrenham Arms, Pakenhamupon James Edmund Pye, aged 56, street, St. Pancras, late of No. 1, Calthorpe-terrace, Gray's Inn-road. It appeared that the deceased had been book-keeper to Mr. Brett's, Holborn-bars. 'During the last fourteen months deceased was out of employ, and latterly became very melancholy, from a dread that he would come to the workhouse. On Tuesday morning he was found dead in bed, with an empty phial at his side which had contained prussic acid, and which he had drank. Mr. Jackson, surgeon, opened the body, and found the stomach impregnated with prussic acid. Verdict, "Deceased destroyed himself, but there was no evidence of his state of mind."  DEATH FROM Mills held an inquest yesterday, at the Bell, Cumberland-place, King's-cross, upon Emma Styles, a bonnet maker, aged 21. Deceased was much attached to a man, to whom she was to have been married, and who was arrested last week for some crime, but was subsequently discharged, there having been no evidence adduced against him. His arrest had such an effect upon deceased that she became ill, and continued so until lust. Monday-morning, when she wns found dead in her lodgings. Mr. Poppin, surgeon, opened the body and found that death resulted from a disease of the heart. He had no doubt that the shock she sustained from the imprisonment of her intended husband accelerated her death. Verdict, "Natural death." CAUTlON.—Mushrooms being now in season, and plentiful, a correspondent favours us with the subjoined,. which may probably be the means of adding a few years to the lives of those who indulge in that rural dainty:—" In cooking mushrooms for the table, always boil them with an onion 'stripped of its entire skin. If in the process the •onion becomes black or blue do not `use the mushrooms; if they, are harmless.the onion will remain white .",-.Bristol Mirror.