To the Editor of the Sim,—I have hitherto disagreed with you as to the advisability of publishing full reports of the meetings of the Municipal Council; recent events, however, have caused me to change my opinion. The action of the Council with regard to the immediate danger with which we are now threatened from diseased and rabid days is in the opinion of a vast majority of the community simply imbecile. If we hi the opportunity of knowing which mom of the Council were instrumental in ing the ridiculous and senseless motion, authorizing some well-moaning native to cage these pestilential brates, and thereby keep a hard of 400 or 500 animals to disseminate the dreadful disease of which there have already been several victims, we could take steps to replace such mem-
guarding the public interests. What, 1 bers by others who would be cepetle of may ask, is the opinion of their Health Officer on this subject? Are the Council waiting until another victim is added to the list of those who have been killed by these abominable brutes, or is it necessary: that a public meeting should be convened, calling on them to take vigorous atops to exterminate the danger with which we are now menaced?
Yours obediently, Shanghai, 9th May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.