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it first. From our experience with this disease in the past, and from the ravages 

 which it has already made in parts of France and Italy, we have reason to believe 

 that it will not only spread over Europe, but that it will reach this country, if 

 urgent measures are not taken to arrest it; as the season is far advanced it may 

 not touch our shores until the early part of next year; the different cities on and 

 near the Atlantic Coast have organized strict sanitary regulations to prevent it. 

 Has Kansas City been placed in a proper state of defense ? Under the able 

 management of the head of the health department, the health of the city for the 

 last two years has been very good, the annual mortality list is so low as to make 

 it almost unexampled, but there remains much to be done to guard against epi- 

 demic disease. His timely warnings and suggestions should be heeded and his 

 arms strengthened with the means necessary to place it in a good sanitary condi- 

 tion. If this is not done, the city may suffer a calamity in loss of life and busi- 

 ness such as it has never experienced. 



The field of medical investigation which we have briefly presented to your 

 view in this paper, is one of great extent ; and the facts, but recently developed 

 are too complex to be fully settled by the labors of a few men. Pasteur and Koch 

 have, by their discoveries, already placed? their names high upon the scroll of 

 fame, they have opened the way through which will continue to flow the richest 

 benefits to the health and happiness of the human race; but it should be recol- 

 lected that new-born truths encounter opposition, and cannot in the very nature 

 of the mental constitution of men, be generally accepted in a day. 



The signs of the times indicate that the different branches of scientific medi- 

 cine will be consolidated and crystalized into one harmonious system, the rough 

 places will in time be made smooth. The various processes that will bring about 

 this desirable result are quietly at work, and will make it, at no distant day, an 

 accomplished fact. 



Kansas City, Mo., October, 1884. 



CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE WARING SEWERAGE SYSTEM, 



( Translation from M. Pontzen.) 



The first application of sewerage according to Waring's system, made in 

 Paris in 1883, in a quarter where all of the unfavorable conditions are combined^ 

 has been a complete success. 



The establishments drained by Waring's system leave nothing further to be 

 desired in a sanitary point of view, and the ensemble of the drainage works has 

 not, during the five months it has been in operation, given rise to the least com- 

 plaint. The water-closets in the courtyards are no longer offensive, and their 

 presence would not be suspected, the conduits of the system have never required 

 any special cleansing, no deposit has been formed in the collecting sewer in the 

 Rue de Rivoli at the mouth of the main, and the air in this main, constantly 



