Show I CHOLERA IN MARSEILLES Consul Mason has made a report to the State Department concerning cholera in the South of France and especially in Marseilles He says that the municipal authorities of that city pursued a false policy in suppressing information as to the extent of the cholera He says that the most elementary principles of sanitary cleanliness are unknown and yet for one to walk through tho streets of that city such an absence of sanitary precautions is net noticeable The streets have the ap pearanco of being well swept and there is an absence of surface filth Where then do the germs of disease and death I lurk l They lurk in out houses and the sediment which is deposited by throwing I throw-ing foul water into holes or cesspools Even in the streets of the Spanish towns j I one never sees such things as dead chickens chick-ens dogs cats and the like things which 1 are not absolutely unknown in our own I city Even cesspools would not be so dangerous were they to be continually filled up with earth and quick lime but when they are not but are allowed to send forth their deadly gases they ian i-an amongst the most fruitful of i diseasebreeders It is the proper j regulation of such things as these that our city is lacking and which I should be attended to Our climate in summer is much the same as that of I Marseilles and why may not this city be I visited by cholera as well as that city I We do not think there is danger from j J such a source but we do think that some stringent measures should be taken to I prevent the excavating of any more cesspools j cess-pools and for the filing up of those now in use These are probably the most I noxious things of all j |