| Show THE CHOLERA IN A NEW LIGHT TUB THE review of reviews sometimes takes a philosophical turn in looking over and summing gumming up the situation of I 1 mankind and then it sails in for such guch matter as an yields the most comfort that the status of the case will admit of in pursuing this usually good and praiseworthy work it has caught up with the idea that the lately threatened e visitation of cholera to Is not only not RD an uri unmixed mixed evil but a positive benefit it pronounces the asiatic I 1 scourge the great sanitary inspector of nature he sk sio may be regarded as theauthor the author of modern sanitation and it decides that the cholera goes his rounds reviving the faith of mankind in measures of public health at times when the zeal of the sanitarian burns low the claim to is made that the dread disease eaves more lives than it des destroys that there abelew are few capitals in europe which are not made cleaner sweeter more habitable anti anil healthy beltry because of the threaten visitation and that we on thio thid side are following suit with commendable celerity or words to that effect the concluding portion of this un looked for development of optimism is as follows the cholera is really one of the least deadly of diseases it deadliness is ia to be computed by the numbers slain half a dozen other maladies slay year in and year out ten men for one taken by the cholera but they do it in a quiet stealthy strictly non sensational fashion hence they kill and kill and kill and ai it noes does no good but when the cholera comes along it produces the maximum of sensation by the minimum expenditure oi of life and does more good in ita is sensational tour of three months than au all the other diseases do in as many years it is no doubt due to their appreciation of this fact that the Journal journalists isto exhaust their resources in striking headlines asif to get up a cholera panic otherwise their method of dealing with the cholera news would be murderously cruel lot let us hope that the disposition to credit cause with eff effect act and uphold the destroyer because he scares us into making our homes less inviting to him will not extend so far as to make mahe us quit fighting him wherever and whenever he be does come especially when he comes in the form of yellow fever or diphtheria for instance |
