THE CHOLERA. (From the General Board of Heath.)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 885, 25 January 1854, Page 4

THE CHOLERA. (From the General Board of Heath.)

Newcastle'Upon-Tyne, Oct. 4th. — Cho"lera, deaths, 20 ; diarrhna, 4. The total num • ber of deaths from cholera and diarrhsea in Newcastle daring the present outbreak, has been 1427. In the same period (viz.. the first thirty- four days), during the prevalence of epjdemic cholera there in 1831-2, the number of deaths was 246.

Darlington, Oct. 4th. — Cholera, death, 1. 1 Accrington 3 Oct.3rd. — Diarrhoea, death, 1. j On Tuesday, October the 4th, Dr. Waller j Xewis, visited Stock ton- on-Tees, where he met the board of guardians, the local board of health, and the medical and other authorities of the town, in order to assist them in the •preventive measures which they appear to be disposed to carry into effect to the utmost -of their power, before auy decided outbreak of the pestilence has occurred. It is a very signi•ficant indication that the cholera cloud is impending over the town, that there have been four deaths from the disease, of which three lave occurred in the same house. A partial house-to-house visitation had already been undertaken by the resident medical practitioners, -which, on the advice of Dr. Lewis has been made more regular and systematic ; and arrangements have been prepared for the immediate increase of the visiting staff, should the result of the visitation now going on render it necessary. One of the greatest difficulties which the authorities of this town are said to have met with in their attempt to put down nuisances, is their doubt as to the construction of the words " common lodging-houses." The beneficial results of placing common lodging-houses under regulation have been strikingly shewn at Durham, where the local board of health have for the last two years applied the law to between 40 and 50 houses occupied by tramps, &c. The medical officer of health, Mr. Oliver, stated to Mr. Gainger, on visiting Durham last week, that in the whole of these regulated houses there have only been in the two years two cases of fever,, one of which was imported from another locality ; that formerly fever was never absent ; and that he had reported to the Poor Law Board some years ago the case of one of thuse filthy houses, in which there were at one time six cases of fever. The act had not, however, beenj#%T>lied in Durham as it had been in London and elsewhere, to the densely-crowded houses occupied by the Irish, the state of which, in the present condition of the public health, is most dangerous. The attack of cholera at Walker has proved to be a severe one. One extra medical officer, two visitors, and an inspector of nuisances, have been appointed, and two houses of refuge have been established. Seven deaths have occurred since Monday midnight ; five have been found lying dead, and many in a state of collapse chiefly among the tenants of lodg-ing-houses. The disease has thus been confined to two spots. Much over crowding exists in those parts. The total number of deaths since the 13th ult., (in a population of 3200) has been 17.

Gateshead, Oct. 4. — One death only registered for cholera. " London, Oct. 5. — A fatal case of cholera

occurred yesterday in a respectable family in Kenningtoi. oval, Lambeth. The open foul sewer ditch of which the residents have so long complained, passes in the rear of the house. The local authorities of the parish have made urgent complaints of the long lines of filthy ditches and badly constructed sewers traversing the district. Most of the latter were represented as depositories of putrid mud, rather than channels for the removal of the soilage. Dr Milroy, in conjunction Vith Mr. Hall, of the Poor Law Board, had a conferrence with the Board of Guardians of St. George's Southwark. Several attacks of cholera have already taken place in the more neglected and filthy parts of the parish, and there is much diarrh«a in some of its districts.