The cholera still rages in Italy. In Naples, ever since
the King's visit, which re-inspirited all classes, the death-rate has declined, and it is now little over 100 a day ; but the disease kills 38 more in the suburbs, and it has now broken out in Genoa. The figures are uncertain, the authorities being, probably, unwilling to confess the truth ; but the best non-official accounts represent
the deaths in Genoa at 60 a day. That is a high figure among a population less than a fourth that of Naples. It is noteworthy that in this outbreak the disease clings to the shore, striking Toulon, Marseilles, Spezzia, Naples, Genoa ; its malignity inland being far less. That has never, we think, been the case in India, though there, also, the most thickly populated cities are the ports. The difficulties of drainage on the shore of the Mediterranean are great, but they must be faced if the ports are to be healthy, and that in a way of which the inhabitants have no conception. Local philanthropists talk nonsense-about spending hundreds of thousands of francs. The work will require, millions sterling, and cannot, indeed, be effected without national aid.
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