CITY OF LONDON BOARD OF HEALTH.—The Committee now meet only
three times a week. Notwithstanding the mysterious and unfavourable accounts from Sunderland, there does not appear to exist in the City an atom of alarm. On the contrary, the preparations to meet the cholera have been so prompt and satisfactory, the medical men of each Ward have come forward so determinately, and the local autho- rities cooperate with such energy and skill, that the disease is spoken of as if it had already passed away, after a few powerless efforts. The ne- cessity which existed for a vigorous preparation may be guessed at from the condition of the Ward of the Chairman of the Committee (that of Bishopsgate); the return of the poor of that Ward, who are wholly des- . titute of means, and out of employment, being not less than 3,945. This Ward and Cripplegate Ward have more of what are called "rookeries, or back slums " (wretched hovels, in which multitudes are crowded to- gether in great filth) than any other iu the City. The scavengers and whitewashers have made formidable innovations upon the old habits of the residents, and the New River waterworks have been playing upon all the favourite dust-heaps of the miserable occupiers.—Morning Chronicle.
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