June 15, From the Surgeon

The following letter was yesterday forwarded to the Board of Health:— 

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, LIVERPOOL. 

Sir,—With deepest feelings of regret I have the painful duty to perform of transmitting you one of the most melancholy and distressing accounts of Cholera, which occurred on. board the British barque Brutus, bound for Quebec, from Liverpool, with three hundred and thirty passengers.  The first case presented itself on the 25th  of May, (being the eighth day after we left the river,) in a strong, healthy man, 35 years of age : the symptons were all well marked,  the spasms particularly severe.  Under the usual means of treatment he recovered. The next case was an old woman of sixty, who died in ten hours after the commencement of the attack; the disease continued gradually to increase. (notwithstanding every means having been employed to arrest its progress, until the night of Saturday, the 2d June, when we were a good deal tossed about by a heavy sea, and dark hazy weather, it spread to such an alarming extent, that on Sunday most of the ship’s crew being attacked, and having lost some of them the week before, we were obliged to bear up again for Liverpool; it is impossible to describe the scene of misery of the third, fourth, and fifth, people dying in every direction, the greater number of them destitute of the common articles of bed covering; on the sixth the weather became more favourable, the disease less severe, and the number of new cases diminished, which has since been on the decline. 

I annex the number of cases, deaths, recoveries and the number labouring under the disease at present on board. May I therefore request you will have some arrangement made, as soon as possible, to remove the sick where they can have the necessary attendance, as their situation here is so truly deplorable, that there is little chance of recovery, and the remainder of the passengers are in imminent danger of being attacked with the disease.