440 The Public Health. [July 
Public Health feature, embracing both original papers and articles 
from other journals. We are glad to know that our own pages 
have contained matter deemed worthy to be extracted by the editor 
of ‘The Poor Law Magazine. The monthly reports by the 
Glasgow sanitary officers regularly appear in the magazine, and as 
they frequently contain valuable sanitary hints and suggestions, the 
magazine ought to be of much value among the medical officers 
and inspectors of poor attached to the various parochial boards 
throughout Scotland. 
The Glasgow Sewage Association previously mentioned is 
practically non-existent just now, but we are informed that the 
committee of the association, together with the gentlemen who read 
papers at the various meetings, will soon be called upon to draw 
up a report on the most valuable points embraced im the papers, 
and affirm a number of general principles on the disposal and 
utilization of sewage, and submit them to the town council for 
experimental trial before any general and expensive scheme is 
entered upon for the drainage of Glasgow and the permanent purifi- 
cation of the Clyde, on whose banks that great city is built. We 
would seriously advise our Glasgow friends to avoid the rock on 
which the scheme of the Metropolitan Board of Works has broken ; 
let them firmly resolve to have no such outlet and deposit on the 
Clyde as are now threatening to prove a gigantic nuisance at 
Barking Creek, on the Thames. 
It is some satisfaction to know that in Aberdeen there is at 
least one professional man, Dr. Robert Beveridge, who is wrathfully 
in earnest in determining to cope with the hydra-headed monster 
typhus, which, during three winters successively, has asserted its 
presence and authority in the “ granite city.” That gentleman, 
from his professional position in Aberdeen, has observed many 
startling facts in connection with the three years’ epidemic; from 
the facts observed he has deduced many valuable opinions; and the 
facts and opinions he has dared to publish to the world in a 
pamphlet * which now lies before us. Aberdeen is a comparatively 
small and healthy town. Its population in 1866 was probably 
about 76,000, and yet the number of cases of typhus reached the 
enormous total of 4,631, and of that number no fewer than 610 
terminated fatally. One in every 16:2 of the population was 
attacked, which is equal to 6°17 per cent. In one district, however, 
embracing about 42,000 of the population, there was an average 
of one person attacked with typhus out of every 12°56 of the 
population. Dr. Beveridge probably understates the cost of the 
epidemic at 55,0210. 4s., equal, in fact, to a tax upon the in- 
* ‘On the Statistics of the recent Epidemic of Typhusin Aberdeen, showing its 
probable Cause and Cost.’ London : W. W. Head, Victoria Press, 1868. 
