To the Editor of the Noxru-Cuixa Dairy News, Sir,—Ono slight error crept into the otherwise excellent report of my remarks at the last Ratepayers' Meeting, which appeared in your issue of the 20ch inst., and as the statements I there made appear likely to excite controversy, perhaps well that the facts should be reported exactly as I related them, "Twice, Inst summer, L saw human corpses (one on each occasion) attached to the pile of the Kiangse-road Bridge over the Soo. chow Creek, at the edge of the northern foreshore, and on enquiry in the neighbourhood I discovered that it was by no means rare for dead bodies to remain so attached, rising and falling with the tide, until a native official should find time to go through some sort of judicial formality. On each occasion it was the odour of tie corpse that drew my attention; once while driving along the bank of the creek, and once while standing by a sick bed in one of the foreign-built houses which face the water.
I cannot tell for how long a time on either occasion the body remained exposed to the sun. But on one, the time of exposure was at least three hours, for 1 returned to the bridge at the end of that interval, and found the corpse still there. Decomposition was far advanced in both cases.
the trifling inaccuracy in your report was due to the fact that at the moment of speaking I could not recollect the name of the bridge to which I referred, and by naming first that at the end of the Honan Road and afterwards that at the end of the Kiangse Road, I introduced a little confusion into wy' statement, Yours faithfully, R. A. Jastesox, Shanghai; 25th Feb., 1885.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.