Tue justice of our recent protests against the imperfection of the sanitary arrangements in this Settlement re-coives strong and valuable corroboratiou from Dr. Jamieson in the issue of Customs Medical Reports for the Half-yenr ended the 80th September 1883, In writing upon this subject to-day we shall confine ourselves as much us pos sible to quoting Dr. Jamieson's own words, feeling that nothing we can say can add to their force, or heighten the importance of the lesson which they convey. The question is one that concerns us all personally and deeply, and we should be failing in a manifest duty to the public did we not avail ourselves of every opportunity of bringing it in some shape or form before our readers, Last summer, as the Editor of the Reports' very traly observer, was a particularly trying one. The sustained heat which prevailed during the latter part of the extremely prejudicial to health, "Heavy rains, by keeping the air and ground saturated with moisture while the temperature was continuously high, added serious); to both danger and discomfort, Within the Settlements, in covseqnence of night radiation from the dense masses of houses, the difference between the day and night temperature was but slight. Hence exhaustion through want of sleep, from which almost every one was sufferer." Universal experience will, we think, confirm the truth of these remarks, There were a fow happily constituted folks, we believe, who suffered less, and who even went so far as to say that the summer was not so trying as Shanghai summers usually are. Bat this was by no means the general verdict, and the health-returns which Dr. Jamieson proceeds to give bear him out in what he says. The Doctor is careful to say that in Shanghai no clearly defined relation can as yet be established between meteorological records end disease
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