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The question of drainage has received some attention 
from the visitors the last two winters ; and this winter in 
two little pamphlets attention was drawn to it, and also Dr. 
Holland wrote to the local papers a letter which did not 
receive the attention it deserved. Shortly after, this paper 
intimated that the English were inclined to think too much 
of drainage, because the Prince of Wales had typhoid a few 
years ago, but the editor was probably unaware, or else 
ignored the fact, that at the time he wrote this a petition 
had just been got up entirely by Germans and Dutch, and 
was signed by over two hundred visitors, with very few ex- 
ceptions belonging to those nationalities. This was sent to 
the central authorities of the canton in Chur, about the same 
time as a petition, to the same effect, from one English hotel 
with 70 signatures, and if it had been thought advisable to 
make the petitions more general there would have been no 
difficulty in obtaining about 400 more names. The answer 
is, that certain laws relating to drainage, and which will 
diminish the evils complained of, were passed May, 1881, by 
the Landgemeinde. Although this law ought to have been 
passed at least ten years ago, hardly anything has yet been 
done towards carrying it out ; but probably the action of 
the visitors will lead to this being done in the course of the 
next few months. 
Not very long after these petitions a letter from Mr. J. 
Addington Symonds appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette , 
calling attention to an overgrowth of Davos, and pointing 
out some present evils. This caused very much irritation 
among some of the influential inhabitants, and at first they 
were inclined to treat it all as incorrect ; but finding that 
the general opinion among the visitors was that Mr. Sy- 
monds was correct in the main points, their tone was very 
much changed. Perhaps if this letter had remained in Mr. 
Symonds’ desk for a week the irritation might have been 
lessened by the modification of one or two expressions, but 
