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THE CHOLERA AT SUNDERLAND.
404 this letter you will perhaps be aware that following is a summary to as late a date as several new cases and deaths have occurred can at present give it. at Newcastle, and that three cases have AT NEWCASTLE. taken place at North Shields. Two cases Cases.. Died. Recovered. have occurred in a colliery east of Sunder-. ’ 1 7th and 8th 7 1 land; several at Painshaw, at Houghton-le9th 5 2 0 Spring, at Chester-le-Street, and other vil2 0 lages. I am endeavouring to procure a 10th 2 copy of the recent survey of Sunderland and lith 2.... 1 0 its vicinity, and hope by a diminished draw12th 0 1 0 ing to afford you and your readers more pre13th 16 3 1 cise information respecting the geographical; mode of the spreading of the disease. 32 10 2 In conclusion, let me intreat you, as you love your fellow-creatures, to relax not in Remaining under treatment 20 cases. your efforts to promote the amelioration of the condition of the poor, and above all the thinning of their habitations wherever prac- Ox the 13th it was announced that the ticable. Whole dens in Sunderland have cholera had also made its appearance at been depopulated. If this be not looked to North and daily reports have since Shields, in time, I shudder to contemplate the conbeen published from that place also. They sequences when the heat of spring and summer come to assist the ravages of the cho- are as follows :lera in such places as St. Giles’s and WapAT NORTH SHIELDS.
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Cases Recov. If the Government were to despatch a 1 .... 0 Dec. llth .... 2 own of their to witness deputation body 0 .... 13th .... 0 0 the disease in Sunderland, national funds 0 0 13th .... 1 would soon be applied to this first of all national objects, the protection of the peo3100 ple from a devastating scourge. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, All these reports are dated « Central W. B. O’S. Board ofHealth, Council Office, WhiteSunderland, Tuesday, five P.M. hall." At Newcastle we learn that the cases there are almost all of them confined to the very humblest and dirtie.t parts of THE CHOLERA AT SUNDERLAND. Died
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SUMMARY of Daily Reports made since the the 6th of December up to the 13th of December. On the 6th of December there remained
under
treatment
thirty-three
cases.
New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries, 7 2 1 .... 7 1 8th .... 19 3 9 9th.... 10
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There have been, from the commenceof the disease on the 26th of October, Cases, 449-Deaths, 155-Recoveries, 273. Remaining’ under treatment, 21.
ment
Letters from Newcastle received in town the 10th of December, announced that the cholera bad reached that place on the 7the instant, immediately after which official on
daily reports were published, of which the
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town.
THE law enacts that the bodies of all executed murderers shall be handed over to the College pf Surgeons, on the condition that they shall be anatomized within five hundred yards of the prison. In compliance with this enactment, the bodies of the miscreants, Bishop and Il’illiams, were carried, on the morning of their execution, to a house in Hosier Lane, and, tripodical incisions having been made on the chest and abdomen, the College Council gave that of Williams to Mr. GUTHRIE, that of Bishop to Mr. PARTRIDGE, of the King’s College. On the day following, the public were permitted unrestrictedly to gratify their curiosity by a view of the corpses as they lay, one at the King’s College, the other at the Theatre of Anatomy, Little Windmill Street. At the latter place, however, after the first day, a scene occurred to
which.se.
405 veral correspondents are desirous to direct our animadversion. " Several young gentle-
say,
he
appears
not to have
neglected the
advantages possessed by him. There is of observes one men," them, arming here no slavish adherence to one set of themselves with constables’ staves and men, or to one set of opinions ; no perpebroken chair-legs, took their station at the tual appeal to a single authority, as has door with the patriotic object of assisting rather been the fashion for some time on the police constables inI keeping the this side the water; but after a cursory, peace,’ whilst curiosity was taxed by a though careful, glance at the advice given money-taker stationed within side. The by the most eminent surgeons on each spespectators in the dissecting room were occa- cies of injury, the author proceeds to lav sionally gratified with a sparring match before the student, in a clear and between two gentlemen amateurs (pupils), manner, the rules which are to govern his and those outside had their time beguiled conduct, together with the reasons which by what was, no doubt, considered a capital ought to influence him in preferring one bit of fun,-namely, the hauling up of a can mode of practice to another. At the end of of beer, over the heads of the crowd, into each chapter we find a collection of aphothe dissecting room." Our correspondentrisms embracing the substance of the dochas attached some remarks on the unsee’mly trines contained in it. From these we will behaviour of these students, which it is un-- select those on fracture as a specimen of necessary to insert, as the circumstances the work. furnish their own comment. " A simple fracture or fissure of the skull, with or without a wound of the scalp, is an accident of no great importance, and re! quires no attention from the surgeon, beA Practical Treatise on Jn/M)’MS Injuries of the Head. yond the usual treatment for an injury of Dublin: Fannin and Co. 1831. Small the head unaccompanied by fracture, except, perhaps, that the antiphlogistic regi- , 8vo. pp. 121. 121, men and evacuations are more decidedly 0:,E of the ancients has said, that thick necessary. The danger often attending simple heads prevailed in Beotia.* We know of the skull, is to be attributed to fractures that broken heads are equally epidemic in some which other parts, particularly injury the Land of Saints." During- the olden the brain, have received at the same time. " Fractures of the base of the skull are time, the encounters of the orange and attended more danger than those of libertyboys"upon bloody abridge, and, other with because the violence necessary parts, the of " humours recently, Donnybrook," to them must prove highly injurihave given rise to as many bruised scalps ousproduce to the brain. " and fractured skulls as some modern enNever make an incision into the scalp, gagements. We do not wonder, then, to for the purpose of ascertaining the existfind " a practical treatise on injuries of ence of a fracture. even if vou should have reason to suspect depression of the bone. the bead"proceed from the pen of a Dublin Such practice is wholly unnecessary, and, and surgeon, might even conjecture, that in may be productive of bad consequences. some instances he had been at once the "No calculation of the bad effects which are likely to foliow depressed fractures of cause and the cure of the disease. The little volume before us is an ex- the skull can be made from the extent of the fracture, or the depth to which the tremely creditable production. It consists broken piece has been sunk. in a well-arranged digest of the works of The treatment of depressed, like that the most able writers on the subject. The of simple fractures, consists merely in a opinions of Pott, Dease, Desault, Aber- rigid attention to those measures which are calculated to prevent inflammation of nethy, Cooper, Colles, &c., are incorpo- best the within the cranium. parts rated, with original observations, derived The trepan should never be used in defrom the ample opportunities which the pressed fractures without a wound of the Dublin hospitals afford of studying the na- integuments, unless necessary to remove ture of wounds of the head in all their va- existing symptoms of compression or inBamrieties ; and injustice to the author we must mation of the brain. If these be present, we should trepan, even though no fracture * existed. ’1 Bœotium in crasso," &c.—Juv.
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Cases Recov. If the Government were to despatch a 1 .... 0 Dec. llth .... 2 own of their to witness deputation body 0 .... 13th .... 0 0 the disease in Sunderland, national funds 0 0 13th .... 1 would soon be applied to this first of all national objects, the protection of the peo3100 ple from a devastating scourge. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, All these reports are dated « Central W. B. O’S. Board ofHealth, Council Office, WhiteSunderland, Tuesday, five P.M. hall." At Newcastle we learn that the cases there are almost all of them confined to the very humblest and dirtie.t parts of THE CHOLERA AT SUNDERLAND. Died
....
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SUMMARY of Daily Reports made since the the 6th of December up to the 13th of December. On the 6th of December there remained
under
treatment
thirty-three
cases.
New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries, 7 2 1 .... 7 1 8th .... 19 3 9 9th.... 10
Dec. 7th....
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l0th ....
17
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4
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l11h
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10
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5
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12th .... l3th ....
9 8
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6 3
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23 9 9 10
There have been, from the commenceof the disease on the 26th of October, Cases, 449-Deaths, 155-Recoveries, 273. Remaining’ under treatment, 21.
ment
Letters from Newcastle received in town the 10th of December, announced that the cholera bad reached that place on the 7the instant, immediately after which official on
daily reports were published, of which the
....
town.
THE law enacts that the bodies of all executed murderers shall be handed over to the College pf Surgeons, on the condition that they shall be anatomized within five hundred yards of the prison. In compliance with this enactment, the bodies of the miscreants, Bishop and Il’illiams, were carried, on the morning of their execution, to a house in Hosier Lane, and, tripodical incisions having been made on the chest and abdomen, the College Council gave that of Williams to Mr. GUTHRIE, that of Bishop to Mr. PARTRIDGE, of the King’s College. On the day following, the public were permitted unrestrictedly to gratify their curiosity by a view of the corpses as they lay, one at the King’s College, the other at the Theatre of Anatomy, Little Windmill Street. At the latter place, however, after the first day, a scene occurred to
which.se.
405 veral correspondents are desirous to direct our animadversion. " Several young gentle-
say,
he
appears
not to have
neglected the
advantages possessed by him. There is of observes one men," them, arming here no slavish adherence to one set of themselves with constables’ staves and men, or to one set of opinions ; no perpebroken chair-legs, took their station at the tual appeal to a single authority, as has door with the patriotic object of assisting rather been the fashion for some time on the police constables inI keeping the this side the water; but after a cursory, peace,’ whilst curiosity was taxed by a though careful, glance at the advice given money-taker stationed within side. The by the most eminent surgeons on each spespectators in the dissecting room were occa- cies of injury, the author proceeds to lav sionally gratified with a sparring match before the student, in a clear and between two gentlemen amateurs (pupils), manner, the rules which are to govern his and those outside had their time beguiled conduct, together with the reasons which by what was, no doubt, considered a capital ought to influence him in preferring one bit of fun,-namely, the hauling up of a can mode of practice to another. At the end of of beer, over the heads of the crowd, into each chapter we find a collection of aphothe dissecting room." Our correspondentrisms embracing the substance of the dochas attached some remarks on the unsee’mly trines contained in it. From these we will behaviour of these students, which it is un-- select those on fracture as a specimen of necessary to insert, as the circumstances the work. furnish their own comment. " A simple fracture or fissure of the skull, with or without a wound of the scalp, is an accident of no great importance, and re! quires no attention from the surgeon, beA Practical Treatise on Jn/M)’MS Injuries of the Head. yond the usual treatment for an injury of Dublin: Fannin and Co. 1831. Small the head unaccompanied by fracture, except, perhaps, that the antiphlogistic regi- , 8vo. pp. 121. 121, men and evacuations are more decidedly 0:,E of the ancients has said, that thick necessary. The danger often attending simple heads prevailed in Beotia.* We know of the skull, is to be attributed to fractures that broken heads are equally epidemic in some which other parts, particularly injury the Land of Saints." During- the olden the brain, have received at the same time. " Fractures of the base of the skull are time, the encounters of the orange and attended more danger than those of libertyboys"upon bloody abridge, and, other with because the violence necessary parts, the of " humours recently, Donnybrook," to them must prove highly injurihave given rise to as many bruised scalps ousproduce to the brain. " and fractured skulls as some modern enNever make an incision into the scalp, gagements. We do not wonder, then, to for the purpose of ascertaining the existfind " a practical treatise on injuries of ence of a fracture. even if vou should have reason to suspect depression of the bone. the bead"proceed from the pen of a Dublin Such practice is wholly unnecessary, and, and surgeon, might even conjecture, that in may be productive of bad consequences. some instances he had been at once the "No calculation of the bad effects which are likely to foliow depressed fractures of cause and the cure of the disease. The little volume before us is an ex- the skull can be made from the extent of the fracture, or the depth to which the tremely creditable production. It consists broken piece has been sunk. in a well-arranged digest of the works of The treatment of depressed, like that the most able writers on the subject. The of simple fractures, consists merely in a opinions of Pott, Dease, Desault, Aber- rigid attention to those measures which are calculated to prevent inflammation of nethy, Cooper, Colles, &c., are incorpo- best the within the cranium. parts rated, with original observations, derived The trepan should never be used in defrom the ample opportunities which the pressed fractures without a wound of the Dublin hospitals afford of studying the na- integuments, unless necessary to remove ture of wounds of the head in all their va- existing symptoms of compression or inBamrieties ; and injustice to the author we must mation of the brain. If these be present, we should trepan, even though no fracture * existed. ’1 Bœotium in crasso," &c.—Juv.
simple
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