PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.
Newcastle. Gateshead.
Jan. 5, Remaining 120 98 New Cases 10 15 —6, 47 8 —7, 19 6 —8, 29 7 9, — 10 11 —10, 13 9 —11, 20 1 Total Cases 268 155 Jan. 5, Recoveries 5 19 —6, 45 22 7, — 19 24 29 3 8, —9, 9 3 —10, 15 12 —11, 16
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Total Recoveries 133 96 Jan. 5, Deaths 5 9 6, 11 7 —7, 8 6 —8, " 9 2 —9, 2 5 10, 6 1.
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Total Deaths 48 '31 Total Deaths and Recoveries 181 127 Cases remaining 87 23 Total Cases since commencement of the disease 659 367 Total Deaths 204 124 Total Recoveries 865 215 Total Cases remaining Jan. 11th.... 87 28
At Sunderland, which had been reported free of disease, one case has occurred during the week, and but one ; the patient remains yet uncured. At North Shields, 13 cases remain. At Houghton, 20; the last report gives 7 recoveries, and no deaths. A letter from New- burn, near Newcastle, mentions 22 deaths since the 3rd instant, and 10 cases remaining. At Haddington, the last report states no new cases, no deaths, and 3 recoveries; the cases remaining amount to 4 only. The Scotch papers contain a strange story of a patient at Haddington who was ordered to be buried five hours after death—supposed death we would call it; and after the grave clothes were placed on the body, the arm, by a convulsive twitch, which is said in cholera sometimes to occur after death—a galvanic twitch, we suppose—threw them off again. Are can hardly credit the. story. If we believed it true, we should not scruple in declaring that a very serious crime had. been per- petrated—that the Sick had been murdered.in order to protect the whole. The notion of convulsions, five hours after death, is altogether absurd ; the occurrence of such a phenomenon would render doubtful all the other indications of death. As long as a man can wag his finger, he ought to lie above ground. In one or two instances in England, casual cases of cholera, seemingly -well attested, have been ; but the disease has ended with the
wandering'victim which it first seized.
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