PROGRESS Or CHOLERA.

The number of cases remaining in London on Saturday last was 64; yesterday the number was 106. From this number, however, we must in propriety deduct the 17 cases of Marylehone Workhouse; which, though admitted into the reports of the Boards, under the previously unheard-of description of " mild cholera," are in reality no cholera, by the confession of the most zealous hunters out of cases. This leaves an increase of 25 ; which, looking to our tremendous population, and to the greater care which it is to be expected will be exerted from day to day in reporting cases, can hardly be counted an increase at all. The only spot in the metropolis where the disease can be said to have obtained a firm hold, and where it has assumed an aspect at all formi- dable, is Southwark. On Saturday, there were 17 cases remaining in this district ; since Saturday, there have been 107 cases, 43 deaths. In Newington Butts, which follows next to Southwark, but at a long interval, there have been 27 cases, and 9 deaths. In no other quarter of the town have the cases or the deaths been sufficiently numerous to require special enumeration.

The following is the tabular report issued yesterday— Central Board of health, Council-office, Whitehall, 9th Made 1932.

Places and Date,,

LoNnoN, March 8

Afloat on the River

Poplar Shadwell Limehouse Ratcliffe Rotherhithe

Southwark

Newington Butts

Chelsea Lambeth Christchurch, Sorry ....

Remaining at last Report.

7 .

4 .... New Cases. Dead.

0 .... 0 ....

... 9 ..........

Total Total Recovered. Remain- Ca.afrom Deaths from

Mg. commence- commence- Mat, meat.

26 17

• • 2 3 1 1 0 16 13 3 3

7 5.

185 .88

41 18

0 0- 6 30 23.

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51:nyIelione‘Vorktiove • 20 0 . 0 St. Pancras - 1 1 . 4 0 . 1 . . Whiiedull-1. 3 1 . 1 .

St. (:,,zirgo in the Lust 3 0 0 li,:10,411 tiv.ien 1 0 0 . Si. Lake'.., 0 0 ‘;, '1', -. al 114 . 43 ,..4

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6 30 4 18 12 6 3 6 415 . 06 — 4/1 3 2 4 8 e ' 3 .) 4 'it*?

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In tiw Country, both in Engiaild and Scothoul, the totol number of ceses remaining is 97. Were it not that the attention of tlw public is directed

10 this disease in particular, there is uuthina- in its present pro- gress or ra yap::: that would texite attention or call for record. In Glasgow, there are :II eases in a popalation of 200,000; and in Paisley iIi, in a uopulatn io of nearly half that amount. The only town in ;Flighted where the number of cases is noticeable, is North Shields, where there ere '..-Iti cases. Exclusive of these three towns, anti of the metropolis, the whole of Great Britain furnishes only 2I cases of the disease.

There was a meeting of the medical men in London on Thursday, :and a Committee was appointed to investigate the nature and progress of the disease in the metropolis, with a view both to check the Central Board and to assist it. From this Committee, in the course of next week, we may expect some authentic intelligence; we have got very little hitherto.