The cholera seems to be dying away before the colder
weather, the number of seizures and deaths declining every- where. From Hamburg, St. Petersburg, and Paris the accounts are all the same. No outburst has yet occurred in the United States, and the panic there appears to be subsiding. If the improvement continues, the visitation, except in Russia and Hamburg, will not have been a severe one ; and, as usual, it has improved sanitary conditions. The German Government, for example, has secured the often-refused consent of the Federal Council to a general sanitary law ; and the French have everywhere put their towns in a little better order. The grand difficulty now, even in England, is with the smaller places, where the people begin to want better water and main drains, but where the public fortune is too small to allow of their being obtained. The number of cases of scarlet fever is still abnormally high, and the deaths of which malaria, in one form or another, are the true cause, are still lamentably numerous. In these latter cases, the report that the average is normal gives us a false content. There ought to be none.
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