Tue sudden burst of heat that was experienced in Shanghai on Sunday, the thermometer registering no leas than 73° Fahr., appears to have boon attended with a certain amount of fever among a few residents, and with discomfort and distress to nearly overybody. The phenomenon was nusensonable and sudden, and it has, happily for the health and well-being of the Soltlement, disnppoared as suddenly as it came, But it suggests one fact which it is well to bear in mind. The hot wind which prevailed on Sunday Inst care from the south-west; and, a a matter of testified experi found that a west wind, or with any touch of west in variably trying to the constitution, If, ing in the morning, a person is in indefinable feel-of malaise,—n sousntion of general discomfort, loss of appetite, depression, and irritable Janguor, the chances are teu to one that the wind is in the west.
This should not be overlooked. Let the sanitation of the Settlement be attended to ever so thoroughly, let the drains be in over so excellent a state of cleanliness, we are always at the merey of the winds; and when the west wind blows the geveral health will not be so satisfactory as during the prevalence of other meteorological conditions. The north wind comes straight down from the pure, cold almospliere of Mongolia and Manchuria, The south wind comes from warmer latitudes, but, like the enst wind, it brings the breath of the sea with But the west wind blows over thousands
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