Tue system of street cleansing and underground drainage belongs_to China as it belongs to Europe. 'The Chinese have had large drains in their chief cities for ages covered in with heavy blocks of stone. Peking is a city, the healthiness of which is thus assisted. Carts for dust and garbage' are not unknown, and where the streets are wide in the large towns of North China there is always in operation an imperfect system of street purification. Yet it is everywhere capable. of improvement, especially since the upward movement of the population caused by foreign trade has crowded the streets to an extent not known in earlier ages. Travellers are all too well aware that the removal of manure from the cities to the fields is carried on in all parts of the country. This system, by which buckets, boats, and waggons are in constant use everywhere in China helps to remove the causes of disease in the centres of population, while it increases the fertility of the land. Yet this system-may be improved by Western municipal management. The time has arrived when the rules in use in the Shanghai foreign Settlement may be advantage ously extended to the Chinese city
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.