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Gothuje Sanitation. 
myself. Dr. Wilson lias been engaged for the last year with 
Dr. Cameron in the practical study of sanitary work in Leeds, 
having been previously for seven years in jirivate practice in the 
rural district of Penrith. 
The aim of the paper is to make suggestions of as simple a 
kind as will meet the necessity of each case, and to set forth a 
minimum of sanitary requirement such as may reasonably be 
attained in every country village. 
Small towns and the larger villages have probably a sanitary 
machinery by which such improvements as are here suggested 
could be set a-going, but doubtless there are numbers of small 
villages in which there is a want of initiating power to secure, 
from those authorised to make it, a systematic house-to-house 
inspection of these elementary sanitary requirements. 
For these villages, might it not be possible to form small 
volunteer committees ? Such a committee might be composed 
of a member of the squire’s faniil}^ the clergyman, a Noncon- 
formist minister, the doctor, a tradesman, and one or two of the 
most intelligent cottagers. This committee, aided by the 
medical officer of health, could draw up a series of requirements 
suited to the particular village, and then could visit every house 
and try to persuade each cottager to carry out the necessary 
rules and arrangements. 
Committees of this kind would be of value in educating the 
members of the committee, in educating the villagers, in raising 
the standard of sanitary habits, and in bringing about a position 
of greater safety, should cholera or any other epidemic gain a 
footing in the countiy. 
T. Pkidgin Teale. 
As it is now some time since much notice has been taken by the 
newspaper press of the cholei'a epidemic, it might appear need- 
less to speak of taking any special precautions in the expectation 
of an outbreak in our midst. But it is impossible for anyone 
who has studied the course of former epidemics not to fear that 
such evil fortune may yet be in store for us. On former occa- 
sions the disease has advanced from the far East through the 
Continent during one year, only a few cases occurring in our 
own countiy : at the approach of winter its severity has 
diminished, but on the return of spring it has burst out afresh 
and with renewed vigour, spreading rapidly on our side of the 
Channel. 
It is true of this as of most other infectious diseases, that 
every case must have its rise in some previous one, so that if 
