We are glad to seo that the Municipal Council have adopted the suggestion we throw out the other day with regard to the Cemetery rond. It is to be feared, however, that whatever measures they may put in force for the cleansing of the thoroughfare in question cannot be much more than a temporary expo. client. In the course of a few more years the road will become lined with Chinese shanties on both sides, and the nauseous sights and smells with which we are now assailed on part of the route will pursue us up to the very gates of the Cemetery itself. Wo think it not too much to say that the exposure of one's system to such impure influences during the warm and otherwise unhealthy seasons of Shanghai will prove serious danger, and that the Cemetery road will become a rond to the cemetery in more senses than one.
'The question therefore rinses whether anything can be dove, if not to prevent, at' least to mitigate, the impending difficulty. The site of the present Cemetery was selected partly on account of the dearness of land nearer the Settlement, and partly in order to separate the dead as widely as possible from the living. The rapid growth of the suburbs of Shanghai, however, may make it advisable at some future date to seek another locality. In such a matter as this it would be unwise to allow any sentimental considerations to influence the public policy. As long as cremation is tabooed, and the present clumsy method of interment adhered to, means must be taken to
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