§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEI wish to know whether the Government has received any information, confirmatory or otherwise, of the report that cholera has appeared in this country?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThose suspicious cases which have been investigated during the last fortnight have all proved to be cases, by the Report of the medical men, of simple cholera. There certainly appears to be no Asiatic or epidemic cholera in this country; and, so far as I know, there is none in Europe up to the present time. I may add, for the information of the House and of the public, that the deaths from simple cholera in this country are not up to their ordinary average at present. Last week the number of deaths in London from simple cholera was only half the average.